Woop de Do

Finally decided to go back and do a little purse making, it has been a couple of years since the last purse came off the presses, oh wait a minute I forgot about the cigar box purses that have occasionally crept through my hands. What started out to be a small bag grew into this giant travel satchel size bag.

This one was so much fun to make I have gone through my stash and picked out a few more pieces of fabric to make a few more bags since I have two sets of handles, one of bamboo and the other laminated wood.

Trying something new

Ms. Crafty here, who can't take a good picture, has decided to take an online digital photograph class. Yippee for me and for you, I hope. Jessica at cre8it.com is going to teach us, in this 10 week class, to go from raggedy, frumpy, crummy photos to lovely works of art. Right now we are taking pictures around the yard and posting them for her to critique. By the way there are some awesome photo takers in the group for inspiration. Here are two of the pictures I took today. The picture of a horse tail plant taken from above. When I was a kid we called them cigarette pants because they looked like green cigarettes stuck together. The other reminds me of a slice of pie. We will see what she has to say about this thing. Now to my point for the day. I'm no photographer but I like to create lots of different things most of which are given as gifts, traded in swaps or sold to those people who what I make. So I try and keep a photo log of most of the things I've made just to see how far I've come and to remember some of the things I've made. Therefore It's about time that I learned to take a decent picture, properly framed, cropped and presented. The side benefit is as Jessica helps us to see with new eyes I might find the joy that so many photographers have taking pictures. You have got to be willing to try something new to add to your bag of tricks. An artist never stops growing, evolving into a new creature.