The Frayed Edges, December 2010–Part 1
As always, our December Frayed Edges was friends, food, smiles and fun.
And since it was December, gifties! We met in Kate’s couple-hundred-year-old farmhouse near Merrymeeting Bay (isn’t that the most awesome name?) on a gray day with the woodstove warming us in the kitchen/dining room, and Bailey (OOOPS…I am SO bad with names) Bristol the wonderdog keeping us company. The photo at the very top is as I sat in my chair and looked up…isn’t the shadow pattern on the ceiling awesome?
As always, Kathy was the one with work to share!
Her son is a drummer, and asked Mom to make him some round covers to put on his drum cases. Kathy is using a different technique for each, and this one is a portrait of said son done with bleach pen on cloth! Totally cool! She shared that she did a sketch of her son, place glass or clear plastic on top, drew over the lines with the bleach pen, THEN placed the cloth down on the bleach pen. That solved the problem of having the bleach react too much with where you start drawing and not enough where you finish. A clever lady she is!
Then we had gifties… My small offerings are the mistletoe, Kath gave us each awonderful key and card holder, thereby supporting local craftswomen, and Kate took some fabric I had given her (an old damask tablecloth of Mom’s, actually), dyed it, and made us a set of re-usable gift bags. Those clearly will be for in-house giving!!!! Kate made the lovely vignette of votives on a small mirror (also found at the local dump’s swap shack….I really need to go to the Bowdoinham dump!), then gave us the candles which you saw here on my blog! Kate recycled old music sheets to make them.
then there is lunch in the sunshine:
including soup and dessert…yum!
Then we remembered Deborah, our itinerant member who lived in Maine, then near Dallas, and now near Annapolis, had sent a box! more gifties! Here are her funny snowmen and one of the inspiring ‘zines she makes:
After lunch, Kate said “let’s make journals”. Hunh? It appears the gift-giving wasn’t over! Kate bought this cool gizzie and said we’d make journals. Apparently the covers of discarded Readers’ Digest Condensed Books make the best recycled covers. And then Kate had a stash of de-commissioned letterhead from a couple places; some of the paper had this “ghost” terrain map on it…SO cool! So she let us choose from her stash of scavenged-from-the-swap-shack (gotta go there!) stuff, and we made our own journals. I’ll share than in a post fairly soon.
Finally, there is Bailey Bristol being sweet!
January 7th, 2011 at 10:00 am
Sounds like a fun get-together!
January 9th, 2011 at 10:35 am
Although Bailey IS the name of a beautiful midcoast island, our dog is named for a different place in Maine: Bristol. I love this post and love the captured memory of our day together.