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Visit my new site: www.maudemakesart.com

Jumping Ship and moving to Word Press

Well I'm going to close down this site and jump to Word Press. It allows me to be a bit more creative and while there's a HUGE learning curve (at least to my tiny mind), I'm liking the challenge and, when I'm not tearing my hair out, it's actually quite fun. Kinda like getting the correct answer to a math problem.

Here's the link: http://maudemay.wordpress.com/

Please come and visit . . . Miss Winnie thinks you'll like it . . .

Craft T afternoons - Play in my studio!

Come play in my studio! Every Sunday afternoon in June from 3:00 - 5:30 I'll be teaching a class and you're invited to join me. All materials and tools are supplied, along with tea and treats and you'll make and take a fabulous project home! 4 students per class.

The Schedule

Sunday, June 3 • Paper Prayer Flags 

(1 spot available)

Sunday, June 10 • Fancy Folders

(4 spots available)

Sunday, June 17 • Dream & Wish Tickets

(4 spots available)

Sunday, June 24 • Fun & Games 
(3 spots available)

$27 per person, per session

OR

$100 per session for you and 3 of your pals!

Off Leary Way in beautiful Ballard – Seattle,
my studio (with fabulous views of the Olympics on sunny days)
is located in the ActivSpace Building on the Burke-Gilman Bike Trail.

Email me: maude@maudemay.com for more info

For all you do - flags for Lynette (detail)

Reach - flags for Jules (detail)

Happy student / Prayer Flag Class
Letters of Joy (LOJ) 

Flag set

I'll post more photos in June for the other class projects - hope you can come and play!

April Showers' Rewards

April was a wild and rainy month - except for weekends that gifted us with brief respites of sun and warm temperatures. Consequently blooming chaos now reigns in the garden. It's glorious!

THE BIG MISTAKE: Sketchbook Mails Mañana

cover, theme is pictures and descriptions

Nothing like cutting it close is there? Postmark date for this project is April 30th, so I've actually got 6 days, right? 

Once started it was 'easy peasy' until I made the BIG MISTAKE. Que pasa? Well . . . each page consists of a photo (or photos), all taken with my Iphone, collaged onto card stock, which I then sew onto the actual blank page. After several spreads everything was going great and I was on a roll gleefully sewing (feeling quite pleased with myself and my new Bernina - another story). I finished attaching the collage to the page and then - to my horror - realized that I'd sewn the remaining book pages AND back cover to the page I was working on! And we're not talking about a few stitches - we're talking straight stitch and zigzag and LOTS of thread and about 1/3 of the book! 

inside cover and page 1

Plan B - I added pages - using the "waterfall" accordion-fold method-remember old postcard books? (which I'm teaching at LOJ on May 5 at Edmonds Community College). Everything worked out and I feel OK about my mistake. Hopefully they'll be able to read the barcode on the back cover! :) Here are more of the pages . . . 

the back of each sewn page contains a portion of a map

love these papier mache heads from Lucca  this is the page before 
THE BIG MISTAKE (fortunately I hadn't decorated the back yet)

 THE BIG MISTAKE

the back of the "heads" page and beginning the "waterfall" folds

unfolded in its "waterfall" glory

the backside of the accordion folds and THE BIG MISTAKE

edges - all tucked back together

back cover - zigzags on the barcode, the white paper was my stamping/coloring test sheet