Journal for Annie Laurie

My niece and I have started a rather delightful pen-pal relationship this spring, and I decided to send her a new journal--it had been a while.  She told me through a series of text messages that her favorite color is grey, and she especially likes it paired with navy and white stripes. I used my twinkling H2O watercolor paints and some masking tape to create the front cover.  The fly-leaves and the back cover are all grey printed papers. The wooden Scrabble letters are glued on with my favorite adhesive for such things: Fusion Glue.  The rubberized leaves (which I bought on clearance back in 2000!) are adhered with Xyron adhesive, and the little felt flowers with navy brads.  I used a grey ribbon for the book mark, and put some alphabet book binding tape on the top and bottom of the binding to help keep it nice.  The pages are graph instead of lined. It turned out pretty cute!

Journals, Address Book and Note cards

I have been pretty busy in the studio lately...  Here are some journals,

 and an address book...

 and a couple of note card sets...

New Journals

In addition to the checkbook covers, tins and other things I made last week, I also covered some composition books.  The first is with an Africa: Countries of the Nile map from 1963.  The next is an aeronautical sectional map of Texas.  The last one is from some of my favorite papers and a pocket from a pair of pants my daughter wore out.  I like to recycle things...

Custom Journals and new dominoes

 These were special order journals.  I find it more difficult to come up with products for men and boys because I don't see the appeal but the buyer was happy, and that is all that counts!

The two dominoes on the right were a special order, but the others will soon be available on the etsy shop.

Journals and Note Card Sets

Lest you think I had been idle, I thought I might post a few pictures, even if they are not up to our usual photographic standard... The first ones are journals that I had made and sent elsewhere to sell. They may have been photographed before, but here they are again. Titles and prices follow the photos.

Then, I have a few note card sets finished and they are shown as a set only--no individual photos of cards like Dave usually takes. Hopefully they are good enough representations to determine if they are something you would like or not! You can click on the images to enlarge them for more detail if you like.

Love is Journal--$12

Hem Your Blessings Journal-- $9

All the Promises Journal $12

Fruitful Life Journal $12

Fruitful Journey Journal $12

Abundant Life Journal $11

Four Cheery Notes $12

Six Friendship Cards $15

Six Map Cards, "No Boundaries" $10

New Journals

Today was a busy day!  I didn't create all this stuff today, but I haven't posted any of it yet because I didn't have pictures until tonight.  It will all be up on the website in a while.  Ornery is working on installing a shopping cart so it may be a little while.  Won't that be cool to be able to order online??  I hope so!

Beautiful  $12

Flower Power  $12

Hands of Time (SOLD!!)

Paper Houses  $12

Leather and Lace  $12

Song in My Heart  $12

Leather and Lace Journal

There has been a lot of experimenting going on in the MMD studio today!

1. I hand cut leather flowers
2. I sewed on seed beads
3. I used a wood burner

This journal was very time consuming, but I was on a substantial learning curve!  I don't know how true the colors are on the screen, but it is pretty bright and cheery, and it has that handy pocket on the front to store a pen and notes or whatever.  

Seven new Journals

Pocket Full o' Posies  SOLD!

Hand dyed pocket, hand-sewn beads and trim, attached ribbon bookmark, includes pen.

Samantha

Krafty Orange Flower

His Eye is on the Sparrow

Stripes and Flowers

Dragonfly

Country Condos

Morning Bounty- 3 Journals

Rising at 4:30 AM gives lots of time to work before noon! Here are three new journals... Pictures are from my camera, so not as good as Dave's, but you can click on the image to see more detail. Each journal comes with a pen and affixed bookmark ribbon. $12.00 each.

Indian Summer

Hippie Chick

(hand sewn beads and embroidery--

It's been a long time, but I haven't forgotten how!)

Candy Bar

Named because it is so SWEET!!

Red and Black Journal

Cleaning up led me to a new direction-- I cut pockets off some jeans and corduroy pants that were otherwise ruined, and discovered the fun rose trim in a drawer. The paper was from a kit I used most of a couple of months ago, and it all came together so beautifully!
This journal comes with a pen and built in bookmark ribbon. $12.00

All-purpose Note Cards

Set of six note cards--all purpose, no text in or outside. $15.00 SOLD!!

Three New Journals

Two of these journals were meant for gifts at the recent Toastmaster Party I hosted, but they weren't needed, so I am posting them for sale here. :) The first one didn't have any embellishment on it when I gave it, but I remedied that today! Click on the image to make it larger. Each journal has 100 pages of college ruled paper. Cost: $12.00 each

Tropically Speaking

Bloom (has book mark built in)

Teal-icious