I love photography, I always have. Around 2007 I had this crazy idea to somehow turn my photographs into note cards. I researched prices for paper, printing, envelopes, sizes... the list goes on! By 2008 I had started selling my note cards at my local farmer's market in Urbanna, Va. Time went by and I quickly got distracted by my other artistic endeavors. I tried to quit doing note cards, not because of cost but because of time, but I have 3 loyal customers (my dad, mother-in-law, and cousin). I have found a new outlet for my note cards! Mind you I don't make nearly as much as I would if I did it myself but I don't have to do the grunt work plus I can reach a larger audience.
I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with Zazzle and that's where you can now find me! The name you can find me under is Kimagination13 or you can just click here
I keep adding to my store every day but it takes Zazzle up to 24 hours to post.
If the link doesn't work you can also just type in zazzle.com/kimagination13
I am sorting through literally thousands of my photographs and I will have obvious categories like Colonial Williamsburg and Amish Life, quilts, animals, flowers and seasons. But if any of you out there have a weird or strange request I'd love to hear it!
Here is one from my Animals collection:
I am creating note cards and postcards, some with words and some without. Zazzle gives you the option to create larger cards, etc. with my design too.
In 2000 I started garment sewing. I eventually started quilting, something I said I'd never do, but that's another story. It only took a few years for that passion to fade but I still loved my sewing machine. I think the reason why that passion died was because I could never get the clothes to fit right. Plus I found other artistic endeavors to pursue. I definitely have ADD when it comes to my creative brain!
My husband and I have been long time fans of Project Runway and for me fabric has always been a great source of inspiration. I love their challenges! One of the challenges was to shop a pet store for materials and one contestant made a dress out of dog collars. One of the things I noticed on each episode was that they used dress forms. Hmmm, I wonder if I got a dress form in my size would that would help me? Yes!
(Stick with me here)... I LOVE Pinterest and have over 100 boards on my page. One of my newer boards is called "Altered Clothing". Instead of starting from scratch I could piece-meal different clothes.
This was the first piece I fell in love with (not created by me):
And this is another one (I love how she did the flowers):
And one day I aspire to do something like this (if only there were more hours in a day!)
So you guessed it! My newest endeavor is Altered Clothing! I went to my local thrift store last week and bought three articles of clothing. A gray sweater which will be my base piece.
A black net-like shirt for draping:
And a dark charcoal gray knit shirt because I liked the "crochet" detail on the back:
Front:
Back:
My first cut was right up the middle of the front of the sweater because my original thought was to make a cardigan like the pink one in the first picture. I ended up sewing it closed closer to the neck and leaving it open at the bottom, eventually adding the charcoal gray knit to that area so I could wear it like a sweater without my belly hanging out.
I cut the crochet off the back of the knit shirt and hand sewed it onto the back of my sweater. I had two flowers left over so I added some detail to those and sewed those on the front. For the net-shirt I used the sleeves. I reattached these to the cut off sweater sleeves.
And this is the end product:
I finally bought myself a dress form for Christmas and I love it although I do wish I was on the smaller end of the measurements but alas I am not.
