The Orange Satin Elephant Mirror

Another Elephant Wall Mirror – this time in orange satin, with lots of scraps deployed for elephantine purposes.  On sale at my Etsy site now!

The Elephant Circle Mirrors

I just completed four new Elephant Circle Mirrors, out of fabric scraps, ex-blankets, and old LP record albums.  One Blue Satin, one Orange Satin, a Purple Denim one, and a Pink Woven one.

They’re all for sale now over at my Etsy shop here.

Doll Factory: Fabric Heaven

I am making more elephant mirrors, more and more, and indulging in fabric swatches.  Thank you Ida, Thank you Ginny, Thank you Alice!  I love mixing the colors, someone once told me this advice — if the colors seem to clash, then you just need to add more.  Words to live by, if somewhat confusingly when taken beyond the arts+crafts realm.

The Elephant Mirror

This is the third Elephant Circle Mirror I’ve made — the other two have sold out over the last two craft sales.  People love elephants, I love elephants, and here there are 6 elephants worth of good luck upturned trunks!  I’m deploying all my smaller upholstery samplers for maximum color.  This one is now available for sale over at Etsy.

Just as with the Monster/Bear mirrors, this one is built around a mirror affixed to a vinyl record, and sewn around with old blankets cut and sewn together.  Materialwise, they are purely repurposed, but they are really labor intensive!  I enjoy the stitching and the colors enough to be hungry for more.  I am planning wedding presents with these, everyone needs more elephants in their life.

Monster/Cat Portrait Mirror

Thanks to God’s Helping Hand’s bounty of weird fabric remnants, I made off with two luxurious swatches of white furry fabric.
So finally I found a good use for it: A Monster Mirror! Also known as a Cat Mirror, as it was interpreted by many of the browsers at the Union Project sale.

I cannot put into words how much I enjoy this mirror, and I am very happy that my new sewing ally Suz also loved it, and bought it.

She also promised lots more furry kinds of fabric, maybe some velvets too, so a whole new crop of soft little monsters will be emerging soon!  Now I am making a spate more to go up on Etsy and next week’s sale at the Union Project fundraiser.  Attack of the Cat Monsters — faces yet to be determined.

Here are the four fabric portrait mirrors I made, and another shopper at the Union Project recommended I do some Mohawks, some side profiles, a sun or two, and straight haired ladies instead of just wild haired ones. The list goes on!

The Dolls Go to the Union Project!

Yesterday was a great sale, maybe the best ever, at the Union Project in Highland Park, all day in the first snowy day of Pittsburgh this season.   The dolls, monsters, elephants, lp bags,  portrait mirrors, and even a Sarah Palin voodoo doll are released into the wild.  So long!