silver bella classes

Want to see what I made in my silver bella classes...

Above is the group project from our first night, ingeniously designed by Teresa McFayden. What made the project super clever was that the pattern for the embroidery is actually a rubber stamp...stamped directly on the cloth and then embroidered. It was tough work in dim light, but I was so ready to create I whipped it up in a hurry.

On Friday morning, my first class was Tiny Treasures with Jenni Bowlin.

I made this sweet and tiny little book, bound on a key.

And this spool, wound with a little collage...

This would be such a wonderful ornament, filled with photos of the year gone by.

My next class was Christmas Paegant with Teresa McFayden. It was so much fun carving out a nook in a book and then making up a whole world to go in it. I loved the weathered floral print on the endpapers...doesn't it make a lovely backdrop?

On Saturday, my first class was Prada Schmada with Charlotte Lyons. I love the bag I made... Above is the front, below the back...

I stamped the all-over polka dot pattern using a potato...

Here's the sweet little pocket mouse I bought from Charlotte at the vendor faire, peeping out.

This little posie made a nice accent on the pocket, I think.

After Charlotte's class, we headed to the ballroom for a wonderful lunch and a visit with Mary Engelbreit. She was so down to earth and sweet.

And then you know what happened next...so maybe it's no surprise that my ornament made in my Sally Jean class was not so great. Not only was I in a fragile emotional state, I hada a blasted bum soldering iron.

I stamped the baby's name and 2008 on the back. I also wrote a little poem and put it in the collage about how he was a little bird who flew into our nests for a little while and into our hearts forever. You should've seen me, hovering over my project in tears, hoping nobody noticed. I covered up the poem with more collage...it was just too much for me just yet.

My last class was with Kim Kwan, Portrait Rustique. I was too tired to really put very much into this project...I guess that's what happens with the last class.

Next up, more swaps. Look for it tomorrow.