Birthday Memories Captured in Cards Handmade

Love birthdays and especially love giving and receiving 

things handmade.   Made a wall in my studio to showcase the creations 

and meaningful words given to me for my birthday by friends and family. 

Inspiration in Santa Barbara

Reconnecting with my former work at Felissimo, I find myself in Santa Barbara working on a project bringing Master Artists from Japan in the field of Noh, Traditional Cuisine and Photograpy to UC Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.  Learned the value of upholding tradition and how culture is passed on from generation to generation through these very talented individuals.

Reduce Reuse and Recycle Seminar (New Year 2014)

Kudos to Manager Laura Petro who had the vision to include a Repurposed Gift Wrapping workshop to the lineup of programs for the Reduce Reuse and Recycle Seminar/Retreat for City and State Managers to inspire new creative ways to promote recycling policies and practices. Enjoyed working with those especially who considered themselves creatively challenged and wound up surprising themselves not only with experiencing the potential of repurposing materials but getting connected with the artist hidden within!

Inspired by Textile

Admirations to artist friend Ealish Wilson whose fabulous textile creations inspire wrapping ideas for me.  Worth exploring her work - Ealish Wilson:Design Bahn Textile Art and Design

Ealish's Booth @West Coast Craft Fort Funston

Repurposing a Coffee Bag

Had fun repurposing this Blue Bottle Coffee Bag!  Many possibilities!

Packaging Treats

Holiday Gift Bow 

Makes a great card! 

Playing Catch Up

I am playing catch up having suffered from two horrific bouts of the flu this past winter and New Year.  I do know it was going around as everyone around me seemed to be sick as well.  It was bad enough to have to miss my Scrap Workshop in December which I have to say might have been my first to miss a class. I was pretty sick.  Special thanks to my artist friends Monica, Dorothy and Jennifer to cover for me and for the participants who enthusiastically plugged along with understanding.  It meant so much.

Holiday Gift Wrapping Workshops

Thanks to my students that came out for my November class: 

Gift Wrapping: Repurposing Discarded Materials

San Mateo Community College 
Community Education

Saturday November 23rd.

Hope everyone enjoyed taking things out of the recycling bin and leaving with

new wrapping techniques and a bagful of artfully repurposed and wrapped packages!

Shredded Ledger Paper Gift Bow

For my next holiday workshop I'll be teaming up with my friend and artful crafter Monica Lee teaching how to transform materials found at Scrap into Gift Wrapping ideas.

Scrap Wrap It

Scrap (SF Reuse Center)

Saturday, December 14th
1:00-4:00pm

There will be time available to shop Scrap and wrap your own holiday presents. 

See SCRAP Newsletter for Details. Hope you can join us!