Mary Wollstonecraft
It’s my birthday too, but not a milestone like the 250th.
“How many women thus waste life away, the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
From a recent book group read:
“The most terrifying words you could hear in our house came out of Anouk’s mouth when you had a birthday coming up. ‘I’m making you something,’ she’d say, and no smile was wide enough to conceal the oceans of dread bubbling beneath.”
–Steven Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole (p. 367)
The purses I’ve been making? Now you can buy them. I’ll probably add other non-purse items to the store as my whims dictate.
Recent projects, April, originally uploaded by pennylrichardsca.
Another month gone by, and more of the same–a few sewing projects, a loaf of bread, some crochet, some altered purses…. the last image is of docent projects from the Hands on Art lesson this month (only five of the clay desserts in the photo are made by me).
No really…. even if you send me something as small as a button–if it’s a cool Polka Dot Creations button–I’m going to have to make a purse based on it. The brown purse is from a thriftshop, great leather, clean inside (except there was a sample vial of perfume in one of the pockets). Before:
Brown purse, BEFORE
AFTER
The button is attached with thread, after I got Peter to drill holes in the leather. There’s a lot of gesso, acrylic paints, sharpies, modpodge, krylon. (See my altered purse tutorial here.) And that button.
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