Paper Pie

My Nephew

Remember a while back when I told you about my nieces? Well, they are not the only special, little people in my life. I have a nephew named Liam, too! He was over a few weeks ago and we had a rip roaring time. He is 22 months old, so almost 2 years and he has tons of energy and tons of independent spirit. He wants to do everything himself right now, and he of course finds all of the most dangerous things to play with in our unkidproofed apartment. We blew bubbles in the backyard and had a little barbecue. Later, he entertained himself for hours by chasing Zipper around the house. Zipper took it all in stride. I love this photo of the two of them getting acquainted. See his awesome red hair? It's been like that since he was born. Liam is quite the special little guy, he sometimes calls me Uncle Liz because he has a hard time remembering the difference between aunt and uncle. What a fun age! Love him! 

Check Out LizScott.Com

Hi there! You may notice that I have been a little spotty with my posts around here lately. I apologize for that, but it was for a good cause. My website, lizscott.com is finally live. I have been working on the site for weeks and now it is up and running. The purpose of the site is to create a sort of home base on the web where everything else is linked from. Also, it is a simple and easy to remember address: my name! There you will find all of my fabric designs to date, my art and design, as well as bio info and links to my various Flickr galleries and stuff. Of course, there is also a link back to this blog. Check it out and do a little digging. You may find out something you didn't know before. Please enjoy and Happy Sunday!! It is supposed to reach 98 degrees here today!

Liz & Kalli #25 Night

Oh my, it never ceases to amaze me how similar our projects/pieces can look from week to week. In this 25th week of Tuesdays with Liz and Kalli, the word is night. Liz's photo is on the top and Kalli's necklace is on the bottom. 

*Liz

I was out snapping shots tonight and caught quite a few that involved the moon and silhouetted palm trees, or the moon and birds in flight. Since the moon is just a mere sliver tonight, I decided to go with just the moon in the huge expanse of gray sky. I like it because the moon feels so distant, so far away, but at the same time it is so familiar and everyday, er, I mean every night.

*Kalli

Kalli made this gorgeous necklace that was inspired by night. She says, "This week I made a necklace for night that I wanted it to look a little bit like bright spots of light (stars?) against dark metal (dark sky?) I used frosted glass beads, silvery faux pearls, bronze wire and antique brass chain." 

Pretty, pretty.

Liz & Kalli #24 Hexagonal

 

Ok, so here we are, #24 in this fine little art project. The word is hexagonal, Liz's is on the top and Kalli's is on the bottom.

*Liz

See why I was taking pictures of hexagons in the last post? In the end though it was this blog post that served as the inspiration for my submission this week. Oh, and I should mention how much I adore Alicia's blog. I love her writing style and her voice that comes through in every post. Anyways, that could be a whole post in itself. I wanted to try my hand at English paper piecing and here it is. I used all of my own fabric designs. I'm not sure what I will do with this little lovely flower, but it has definitely got me wanting to make more. It was so fun and addictive!

*Kalli

Here's my hexagon. I used the computer to make a honeycomb kind of pattern and partially filled it in with some cool new watercolors I found in Ohio that have a metallic sheen. There's even a metallic white/silver color. 

I love the subtle metallic sheen, subdued color palette and perspective here. Nice work!  

Liz & Kalli Special Edition

Oh my goodness, hello! I am still here. There has been a whirlwind of activity around these parts that never seems to stop long enough for me to post to my favorite little blog. We've been going, going, going and we are out of town this weekend too. Speaking of being out of town, Kalli just returned back from Ohio and we want to post this very special edition of Liz & Kalli Tuesdays. We decided to post a photo to make up for all of our lost weeks. We also have #24 ready too, so look out for that later this evening. And, alas, this is posted on a Wednesday again, but I promise that we will get back to our regular selves on regular Tuesdays starting next week. Anyways, without further ado, let me tell you about these photos. Liz's is on top and Kalli's is on the bottom.

*Liz 

I saw this lovely sculpture outside of a swank hotel on Sunset Blvd. Had to snap the pic, you'll see why in the next post. I love how cheerful, geometric, textural and downright Scandinavian this little piece happens to be.

*Kalli

Here's a photo I got at Wal-Mart of all places... I was searching for some Dramamine for my trip back and found a wall of fish tanks near the pharmacy section (Wal-Mart is so random). They were cute and so bright.

I love it Kalli! It is so cute, I love that there is just one at the glass looking right at you. Love the color too!

Shop Update

Hi! Just wanted to let you know that I added two new fabrics to the WonderFluff Shop just now. On the left, Ditzy Floral in organic cotton sateen. The one on the right may look familiar because it is already in the shop in organic cotton sateen, but I just added a quilting weight broadcloth as well. It is called Aqua Daisies. They are both cheerful and fun, and ripe with possibility. Enjoy! 

A New Look

Welcome to Zipper's blog! Just kidding, this is still Paper Pie, but I couldn't resist putting Zip in the spotlight. I made him a bed made from an old 7-Up bottle crate and I used some of my custom fabric to make a little cushion for him. I received this fabric from Spoonflower with this shipment a while back, but decided to hang on to it instead of putting it up for sale. I ordered more for the store though and it should be in soon. This cat tuffet project is from Amy Karol's Bend the Rules Sewing. The project suggests using a basket, but I've had this crate laying around for a while and it seemed the perfect size—though Zipper is bigger than I thought! I made him a little catnip fishy too, and he LOVES that thing! Plus, it was my first time sewing an actual zipper into fabric and I didn't completely flub it, so I got that going for me. 

You may notice that I've changed and added a few things around here. I just thought it needed a little freshening up. The blog has been such an excellent way for me to keep friends, family and everybody up to date on my projects and my personal life. It is a joyful project that I look forward to working on, so I thought it deserved a little TLC and blogs are sort of these ever-evolving, 

ever-changing things anyways.

Oh, and check out Zipper one last time. 

You knew this would happen...

Happy Tote

 

I've been wanting to work on this little happy, fun tote ever since I made this cheerful bag. I love this one too, and I'm not sure which is my favorite, they are both equally favorited by me. It's too hard to choose which is better. This bag has a special purpose so I won't be selling it in the WonderFluff shop, I just wanted to show you what I have been working on.

 

On a completely unrelated note, Ryan and I rented all three Godfather movies from Netflix. I'm pretty sure I may be one of about four people on the face of the earth that has never seen them, or at least maybe the first and most famous first one from the Seventies. We watched it a few weeks back and I actually fell asleep 20 minutes before the end. Ryan, who had predicted beforehand that I would fall asleep, was very disappointed in me. So I am thinking that for the next two days we are going on a Godfather movie watching marathon and we will pay Francis Ford Coppola the respect he deserves.