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Cyber Fyber news

My second round Exquisite Corpse Textiles Project piece made it home in time to be mounted and sent off again to the Cyber Fyber show in Columbia, South Carolina. The show opens tomorrow and i'm hoping a friend who will be attending, will be allowed to take photos "in situ". It is such an honour to have been invited by Susan Lenz to submit two pieces of my work. "Shifting Gea… Continue

Added by arlee barr on January 7, 2009 at 11:24am — No Comments

2nd round of the EC being unshrouded!

The second round of the Exquisite Corpse Textiles Project Round Robin is slowly being revealed around the web. Check the "official" blog! There are plans for a third round --i still have room for 3-6 players, starting the end of January. Continue

Added by arlee barr on November 26, 2008 at 6:13pm — No Comments

Exquisite Corpse Unshrouding Soon--and second round proposed!

We are SO close to the "unshrouding" of the first round!!! The last deadline is/was Aug 25, but we have some pieces that have only one square left to finish before they go back to the "owner". The group is amazing (18 players)and i can't wait to see the finished works! Counting myself, i have 5 people interested in playing in a second round for the Exquisite Corpse project. If you are interested, please let me know. If you *do* commit, you MUST follow the rules, and be aware of postal costs, de… Continue

Added by arlee barr on April 11, 2008 at 1:04pm — 1 Comment

correcting an oooooops

The ATCs i did for the Cybre Fybre trade suddenly looked wrong to me---and like lightening hitting, i realized that for more than a year, i have been making my ATCs THE WRONG SIZE!!!! They're too small!!!! If you would like to trade any anyways, please see my main blog with this entry The ones that are smaller are the photo of three in one shot :} Continue

Added by arlee barr on March 7, 2008 at 5:15pm — No Comments

Round Robin Proposal

I'd like to try an excercise called the Exquisite Corpse, but in textiles and textile techniques. And no the subject is not as gruesome or squishy as it sounds :}
I have more details on my blog
arleebarr.squarespace.com/designjournal/2007/12/26/exquis... Continue

Added by arlee barr on December 26, 2007 at 1:36pm — 2 Comments

HAWT Damn

I love this technique!!!!!!!!! I waved a heat gun over some synthetic batting then slopped paint around.

More info on my "main" blog :}
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Added by arlee barr on December 11, 2007 at 5:48pm — 2 Comments

funky slippers

I LOVE this pattern!!!!!!!! http://arleebarr.squarespace.com/designjournal/2007/11/29/slaphappy-slippers.html

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Added by arlee barr on November 29, 2007 at 4:11pm — 1 Comment

gift mags and patterns

I was pretty disappointed by the holiday issue of Quilting Arts. There *are* some nice things in it, and i'll definitely be trying Sue B's teapot (my mother is a "Tea Granny" so it'll be perfect for her :}), and i like Dale Rollerson's Fete garland and Maggie Grey's little lace bags, but on the whole, it seemed that the only reason some of the articles were in there was because of the "name" attached. This is my opinion so it ya don't like it.....
Taunton, also the publishers of Threa… Continue

Added by arlee barr on November 29, 2007 at 1:57pm — No Comments

mixing paper and textiles

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, i love this mix :} Today i added the stitching and beading to my paper casting piece. I realized though when i finished the first stage of it (it's yet to be formed into a figure/vessel) that the "attitude" the paper had initially was gone, but think i've figured out a way for the next attempt to preserve the feeling and look.

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Added by arlee barr on November 27, 2007 at 7:10pm — No Comments

Art hearts.........

This weekend, we had to have one of our cats sent "over the rainbow bridge"......to thank the vet and the receptionists, i had made several of these. This is a new batch, 1 3/4" x 1 3/4" big:

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Added by arlee barr on November 26, 2007 at 6:02pm — 4 Comments

Paper play!!!!!!

Messy gooey gluey and painty--------FUN FUN FUN!!!!!!
Some photos on this site in my album. Main entry here
http://arleebarr.squarespace.com/designjournal/2007/11/22/paper-play.html
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Added by arlee barr on November 22, 2007 at 5:32pm — No Comments

Submission work

I'm posting a few shots of WIP that i will be submitting to major calls, but can't show a lot of details as that "negates" the rules!
This is the one that excites me the most at the moment :} Done November 3rd, this time i remembered to take notes so i can duplicate the effect!

There's a bit more on my main

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Added by arlee barr on November 20, 2007 at 9:30am — No Comments

groups

Is there a way to easily see if posts have been made to the groups section without hitting each one? The "specialty" groups are as important here as the forum, though seem less visited.
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Added by arlee barr on November 17, 2007 at 10:30am — No Comments

For the Birds :}

I interpreted a CPS article by Kelli Perkins-----these birds are so much fun to make! Mine are slightly different--when did i ever follow the guidelines????---and unstuffed, more of an ornament for the tree or as a patch for applique to a bag. I have plans to make a little bit smaller ones, and they will be stuffed.
The photos are in my "album".
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Added by arlee barr on November 6, 2007 at 7:24pm — 2 Comments

WHOOOOOOOO

HOOOOOOOO!!! :}

I've set myself a de-cluttering goal in what i Do. I have written a goal list for the next year, with the end result hopefully being Making a Living from Art. I have new sketchbooks that are dedicated to competition/show work, an area set up just for writing, which i just LOVE to do, a list of techniques and topics, and a Budget. I've even emailed myself " Did you succeed?????" with a timed email . Each month is broken down into bread and butter, finishing old that appl… Continue

Added by arlee barr on October 28, 2007 at 8:27pm — 2 Comments

OMG photos

Silly me! I didn't realize that if i clicked on each photo again i would get a Supersized version! SO much candy here! So many beautiful beautiful works! What a talented bunchles!!!!!
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Added by arlee barr on October 27, 2007 at 6:56pm — No Comments

Thank you!!!!!!

I want to thank all of you WONDERFUL WONDERFUL ARTISTS----Fyberspace is saving my sanity!
I went to my first Guild meeting in 7 years this morning------what a waste of time..................... Continue

Added by arlee barr on September 11, 2007 at 4:11pm — 2 Comments

Hello ALL!!!

Hello all and thank you Susan for the invite. New social networking ay? Gotta love it :}

arlee
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Added by arlee barr on September 8, 2007 at 11:30am — No Comments

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