Mallard Duck Collage - Box 5 with acorn & leaves

Just completed the first box, the one with the acorn and leaves

Mallard Duck Collage - Background completed

Background completed, so now is time to start filling in the boxes

Mallard Duck Collage - All boxes and frame done

Just completed all the frames

Close up of outside frame corner

Anasazi Song - Central star motif

Just finished stitching the central star motif and I just love those colors, they look so rich :-)

Mallard Duck Collage by Laura J. Perin

Starting with the beginning of 2010, Terry and I will be stiching this lovely project together.

I have just placed my order with my little shop and as soon as I receive the supplies I will be able to start on this. We will follow this project with Pacific Coast Collage, but will only order the supplies a bit later when I am about half way through this current project.

Official starting date unknown at this moment.

Fountain pen in its box

Just added a few photos of the fountain pen all tucked up in its pen box. Not great photos. It seems that this is one of those projects that do not photograph well. At least that gives you some idea.

Roland is quite happy to finally have it :-)

Fountain pen

Well, here is a photo of the finished fountain pen. Will try to take a better one when it is inside the box. It is not perfect, far from it but I am so darn fed up with it that it will have to do.

Fountain pen

Mine so far above and SharonG below.

This is what I have done on it so far. Remains too add something on the top part of the pen like Roland's initials and to do the background.

The Morning After: Finishing done

Two photos showing the front and back of my stand-up frame.

Will do the same exact kind of finishing for The Night Before :-)

The Morning After: Beginning of finishing

Well, you can see the front part ready to be attached to the back part, which is a kind of velvet that is very soft and changes colors depending on the lighting - it looks dark here but really is not that dark at all. I still need to work on putting fabric on the stand piece and then attach all together with a little ribbon to control the amount of length the stand will open up while standing and of course cording all around, so a bit more work to do.