All Sewed Up

As a closet embroiderer and avid collager I have an intense attraction to the wonderful textile collages we call quilts. Symbolic of warmth, protection (quilts were even worn under armor during the crusades) and a sense of community (particularly female) and family history - quilts in all their classic and modern manipulations can stop me in my tracks (I have been known to go into a kind of quilt-trance which sometimes prevents my bed from getting made).

I recently stumbled upon a modern quilter who reassembles everyday snapshots as refracted fabric visions. Luke Haynes works from photographs and disassembles, digests, and reconstructs images as progressive cloth murals. I think they are pretty cool.





More Cool Etsy Goodies
1. Space Spores in Search ... - sillyboodilly
2. Rooster Quilt - mariannemccann
3. Sew On Recycled Locket - polarity
4. Quilted Coasters - btaylorquilts
5. Space Spores in Search - sillyboodilly
6. Soft Patchwork Pillow Ring - raeburnink
7. Not Afraid of Needles - uncorked
8. In The Beginning - hudsonquilts
9. Nest Colorblock - littlelegwarmers

WIN A NestaUsa Print!

And the winner is.... Jen from 10oneworld on Etsy! Congrats Jen! Enjoy your "Where I Exist".


Tandie Nesta is the amazing artist and photographer behind NestaUsa and NestaHome. Tandie's work is fresh and strong and provides incredible inspiration to anyone lucky enough to be able to own something she has created!

One of Tandie's photographs was recently used in a home update on HGTV's show Dear Genevieve and we are lucky enough to be able to give away one of her amazing photographs from her NestaUsa shop as well as offer a discount for any purchases made to her shop through the end of the month!

WHAT YOU GET:
One lucky winner will receive one awesome NestaUsa 8X10 photograph of her/his choice!

HOW TO WIN:
Visit NestaUsa's Etsy Shop and check it out- HERE. Then come back here and LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW mentioning your favorite 8X10 photograph.

For additional entries:

(5) Blog about this contest, linking to this post and to NestaUsa
(5) Twitter this post
(5) Follow my blog

Let me know if you have done these things so I can give you additional entries.

Tandie is also offering a 15% discount (refunded through paypal) through the end of March - be sure to note 'polarity' or 'uncorked' in the comments to seller section of your order!

DRAWING:

5PM EST on Thursday, March 26th so enter now and spruce up your nest with a NESTA!

you know that JUNK in your trunk?

It is finally the first day of spring (and my sister's birthday!) and those snow flurries outside my window this morning are not keeping me from thinking about those green days ahead. If your head is linking spring and green and spring cleaning like mine you will want to check out Inhabitat's Wonderful Spring Greening Contest to encourage creative reuse. If you have a project in mind to re-furbish, re-purpose and re-think your trash into something amazing AND functional now is the time to make it happen. The winner receives a $200.00 Inhabitat gift certificate. The bad news is that this contest ends in one week (we always put everything off to the last week anyway, right?)- so you've got to get greening! Check back next week to see my entry and check out some amazing examples of re-use available right now from some amazing Etsy shops (plus a couple of my own).
1. repurposed fabric to dress - Infusion
2. wine cork to necklace - Uncorked
3. vinyl banner to wallet - NottyPooch
4. circuit board to keychain - Debby Arem Designs
5. skateboard to coaster - 2ReVert
6. money bag to business card holder - Chakrapennywhistle
7. plastic bags to lunch bags - Copabananas
8. car signage to necklace - dustDesignCo
9. sleeve to wristlet - zJayne
10. car part to bracelet - Polarity
11. doll to clock - IMOTIME

hiring (?) MODELS

Well, I didn't exactly "hire" them, unless you count the pizza I have promised, but haven't delivered on yet (after all models can't actually eat pizza, right?). At the urging of Noelle, of Xenotees, to get some 'models' in my pics I "hired" these two pretty (and familiar) faces- what cha' think?