New Style Pocketbook with Wire and Brads; Sketchbook Play

You can now purchase this fabric book via my side bar: See Buy Now button! After using brads and wire on my grand kids fabric photo albums I decided to see how they would work on the pocketbooks. Works great! Three gold brads and then binding with thin gold jewelry wire...and leaving some out in this decorative design gives an added artzy flair that I like! What do you think? The wire is soft and malleable one could even redesign it if they wished. Lots of handmade "Julie" beads added to the bottom of the ties that close the pockets.

More fabric paper lining on inside front and back covers

and inside each pocket as well.

So now there are two more for sale. They make sweet gifts. I got an enthusiastic thank you from Lolo for the one I made for her sister's birthday. You can see it on Chris Daly's new The Art Quilt Blog here; Her sister loves Iris' so I used Iris fabric and my personal photos of Iris's to decorate each pocket. Go see.

Yours for $25; free shipping in the USA.

************************ Twelve O Three is a special number to me. It's the address of the house I lived in from age 6 months to eighteen years when I left home.

This is a sketch from memory of the front of that house. I can clearly remember sitting on the steps looking out down the street into my unknown, yet to be revealed future.

There were four of us little girls who grew up across the street from each other there. Two of us are still friends today!

Grateful for that and lots more.

1150th post today!