Aug 4
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

The petals fell off onto the counter, so I swept them up and took them upstairs.

Here I sandwiched them between two sheets of fusible web, and ironed it hard. Then I peeled it apart, and sandwiched the result between silk organza and the purple batik. A little embroidery around the outsides of the petals and it looked done.

The petals smelled like pumpkin pie when I pressed them. Or something else golden.

My head is spinning with fabric things. I am working on three different journal pages, more or less simultaneously, in a desperate bid to accomplish them before Journal Class next Saturday. I still have some finishing to do on Alice’s May page – adding some of her drawings to the background. I decided to make June a page full of things that make me irrationally happy. And July is nothing but a fabric scrapbook page of Our Summer Vacation. It looks cool, and it is fabric. But really? It is scrapbooking.