Sherie comes to visit...

 Last week I hinted at my friend Sherie coming for a visit. Well,she did! And it was a great time!
 She flew in on Thursday(boy were her arms tired!LOL) and stayed until the following Monday evening.
Sherie showed up with lots of love and a suitcase packed full of art goodness and treasures and a mind packed with clever art ideas and inspiration-yup, all of that!heehee

Over the next few days,I am going to share the projects we worked on and created.

Project number one was to redesign these baby dresses/nighties Sherie brought.

Up first is Sherie's~warning photo heavy post with some Jackie goofiness!


She spoke not a word and went straight to her work...

And sewed like a mad woman till her stitches did twerk!

Her stamping and laces were beauties to behold!

just look how that coffee made those ribbons look old!

buttons,strings and flowers were placed till just right
How beautiful! We both said cheered with joy and delight!

A masterpiece my friend!Well done Sherie!

ok,enough of my silly poetry and on with the post!
here,my sweet Riley took some time out from his yard work to help get the second machine up and running for us!

 thanks my honey!

Next up is my dress
 Still configuring the elements on the worktable...
the tin to the left is the coffee we used for splattering and dying our materials.

I had never worked on a project like this,so it was sort of a challenge for me.

I gathered sooooo many pieces to begin with and ended up using a fraction of what I had~choices are good!
oh, and all those vintage laces and ribbons I have been  hoarding saving,really came in handy!

I think composition was the most difficult part for me,but I do like how it came together

my very first time using buttons in ANY of my art!

I even pulled out the embroidery thread one night last week and while my husband and I watched The Wizard of Oz together,I stitched out some French knots!

Believe it or not,stamping on material was another first for me and I quite like it!

So there you have a tale of two dresses!

Those wonderful stamps we used are from

 RED LEAD Paperworks.

A couple more photos to share here and then another post on Friday with more fun pieces.

    



















This is a journal Sherie brought me that she made out of large envelopes-so very cool! It took me forever and her explaining at least a hundred times how she assembled these envelopes heehee my brain wouldn't cooperate!

 I love Sherie's style,always so happy!

 Thank you my sweet art sister!

That's a wrap for today- see you again tomorrow!

Thank you for your visit!

Jackie ")