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Vox Hunt: I Love This Cover

2008-01-16T17:30:12Z

Graceland

Show us your favorite album cover.

I love this cover because the artwork is so unique.

Vox Hunt: Arts & Crafts - My Current Project

2007-09-20T16:35:48Z

Show us your current art or crafting project.

(Also known as Quilt Construction #5 for those who have been following along. For those of you who are new to my blog, the other posts about this quilt are below).

Ok...today I've sewn one block of the alternate color (pink squares) to show you, which is the photo on the left.

FinishedBlocks

Next, is the photo (middle left) of the Rail Fence blocks, which are made from four strips, sewn together in the same order. There are eight of these blocks.

The Rail Fence blocks go between the blocks on the left to make rows. A partial row is shown, below left.

RailFenceBlock

Click on photo to go to a larger view. After I finish sewing all the pink blocks and Rail Fence blocks, the next step will be sewing together the rows of blocks. I'll show you that step Monday.

Stay tuned...

PartialRow

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Vox Hunt: Arts & Crafts - I'd Love To Learn This

2007-09-19T16:40:57Z

Show us a type of art or craft that you'd like to learn

The Beaded Garden: Creating Flowers with Beads and Thread

Diane Fitzgerald

While attending a craft fair years ago, I saw some beaded flowers a lady made. I fell in love with them.

I've wanted to make flowers from beads ever since but haven't, because of the crafts I do now. I feel that quilting, sewing, and cross-stitch is enough for me--to take on another hobby would be too stressful and take away the enjoyment.

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Vox Hunt: Arts & Crafts - I Made This

2007-09-17T16:34:07Z

StringBag1

Show us something you made by hand.

My second post on this:

I made this String Bag and lining (photo below). Bag was crocheted with 1 1/2 balls of Lilly Cotton Yarn. I lined it with batik (hand dyed) quilting fabric, which was tacked down to the yarn to keep lining in place.
Total project time for me was two days.

BatikLining

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Vox Hunt: Photography - Exposure

2007-09-01T23:02:42Z

Show us a photo that's overexposed or underexposed but you love how it turned out.

MeAtBat

Here's one of my favorite photos. This photo was taken around 1963. It was springtime and I was about five years old. It was a Sunday afternoon and my dad was teaching me how to bat. My brother, who was in high school, was the pitcher. I don't remember why I wore a dress; I think we had come home from church. My dad, who's standing behind me, had changed into work clothes to work around the house.

I do remember by the end of the summer I could hit a baseball over the backyard fence. This was the beginning of my love for baseball.

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Vox Hunt: Photography - Extraordinary

2007-08-29T12:49:28Z

Show us a photo that makes something ordinary look extraordinary.

Cardinal

I don't know if this qualifies as extraordinary, but *I* think it's extraordinary. This piece was painted last year by my sister-in-law, Mary. (The medium is oil paint on slate.) Years ago, after her children graduated high school, Mary decided she needed a hobby. She decided to draw animals from photographs in National Geographic and other magazines. She had no drawing experience, nor had she enrolled in art classes. Friends and family quickly saw that Mary was a natural artist.

Mary has since moved from drawing magazine photos in charcoal, to painting animals and nature scenes she has photographed while vacationing around the country. Mary has also perfected her natural artistic ability by enrolling in advanced drawing and painting classes.

Mary and my brother are retired, so she sells these pieces as well as larger portrait-style paintings to supplement their income.

(This post doesn't quality for the Sponsored Contest here on Vox, but I wanted to post about this artwork anyway.)

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Vox Hunt: My First Set Of Wheels

2007-08-11T16:00:01Z

Show us your first car.
Submitted by The Greenhows.

76Duster1

Wow, does this bring back memories!

My first car was a Plymouth Duster. I was 18 years old and I got it the fall I graduated high school. I don't remember the model year, it was either '74, '75, not the '76 model shown here. But, my car was very similar. It was dark green with a white stripe along the side and had a black vinyl roof and beige interior.

My mom worked for Chrysler and she got the vehicle discount. My parents found the Duster at an employee lot (where cars bought or leased by upper management were taken when they no longer wanted them--then other employees could buy them). This car had not been driven by an employee. It was a test car for Chrysler. When I got it, the back seat was covered with a plastic tarp and the car was absolutely filthy inside. I remember it took me about three hours to clean it. My dad bought it because he knew Chrysler had kept it properly maintained for the test track and correctly figured I would not have any mechanical problems. It drove like a dream.

The Duster was bought for me because I was commuting to college. However, I didn't get to drive it very long. I drove it for about a year and then my dad, who was an iron worker (construction worker) had to drive about 200 miles one way for work for about a year, (not including wintertime, as he was laid off in the winter.) I was upset about having to switch but I had no choice, my car got better gas mileage. My dad drove a really cool 1976 Plymouth Sebring. (His car had dual mufflers and was painted bright yellow with a black racing stripe.) I drove his Sebring to college and around town, much to the jealousy of some of my former high school class mates, especially the guys.

Funny thing is, I can't remember when my Duster was sold. I try to remember and I draw a blank. I believe my parents 'took it back' and sold the car when they were getting ready to move to Florida. By that time, I was married to my first husband and we had a car. It was like the Duster was there, and then it wasn't!

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Vox Hunt: I'm Saving Up For This

2007-08-04T18:22:22Z

Show us something that you are saving or budgeting for.
Submitted by foxsydee.

FrenchDoor

We're budgeting for French Doors, similar to these. The door set we buy may not be white.

The dining room, which we use as a family room, has a large slider-type window in the wall next to my computer desk. We want to remove the window and replace it with French Doors. Then, we want to close off our kitchen door and put kitchen base and wall cabinets on that wall. Outside, we hope one day to install a deck. Right now, we have a set of steps outside that are movable. We'd move the steps to the French doors until we can afford a deck.

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Vox Hunt: I'm The VJ

2007-08-02T17:55:12Z

Video: Show us a great music video from the '90s.

Paul Simon - GRACELAND!!!

I was looking for another Paul Simon song to post here, but 'Graceland', from his album of the same name, is just as good. Hope the audio is ok, as I can't turn it up loud enough to tell what the quality is. This clip is from Paul's 'Concert In Central Park 1991'. It has the best of all of Paul's music, in my opinion. The concert's available on CD as well as DVD. 'Graceland' won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1987. It is by far my favorite album. It is a classic.

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Vox Hunt: I Really Need To Organize...

2007-07-29T00:36:11Z

Show us something you really need to organize.
Submitted by Mana'olana.

MessyCuttingTable (Before)

Even though I'm embarrassed to show this, I decided to anyway. Maybe putting this picture on Vox will motivate me to get off my rear and clean this table out and dismantle it.

What is this? This is my cutting table. I bought this from the first JoAnn Fabric store I worked in. The table was shoved in the corner of the store. It was not used as a cutting table but was, much like now, a catch-all for stuff. The manager sold it to me for $50. I wanted the table because it has the metal cutting strip for scissors (center of table) and deep shelves.

I remember it was quite a chore getting this table home. Mike asked a friend of his who had a pickup truck and a flatbed trailer to haul it for us. The table weighs a ton and fell apart in the trailer from all the bouncing on the trip home. Mike reassembled the table and attached a yardstick on the edge so I could measure fabric. (Yes, he's a sweetie and puts up with my multiple craft addictions). This table is in our dining room (which we don't eat in anymore) and is right behind where I sit at my computer.

I've had this table since 2000. I was doing a lot of quilting at the time and the shelves held a lot of fabric. In the last few years, my sewing machine (behind the blue crate) stopped sewing embroidery the way it should, and I have cut back on quilting and have gotten rid of a lot of fabric. So, this table has become a receptacle for junk. The left side of the photo shows the biggest problem. I have stuffed some unfinished quilts and various papers and magazines in there. It's not pretty and I know I should clean it. (I am a slug as far as this area is concerned. The rest of my house is clean and orderly.)

The right side of the table is relatively organized. It's a bit messy, but I can find what I need. Other than the big white bread maker and an ice cream maker stuffed in the far regions of the shelves (the shelves are 4 ft deep--the table is 4'x4'.) the rest of the stuff in there is all sewing-related. The blue crate in the foreground is all my cross-stitch stuff and IT is full to the top. I keep my cross-stitch covered because of Kelly, my long-haired Ragdoll cat. She has decided she likes the crate--it makes a perfect step so she can hop up on the top and sleep. Her preferred place is on top of my sewing organizer--the white item which you can see at the top left edge of the photo. Kelly loves to sleep there because I can't reach her to pet her. If the weather's in the 90s, we wont find Kelly all day--she'll be sleeping way inside the table--in the back on one of the shelves.

Mike and I know we need to clean this table out and take it down. It's the only thing standing in the way of our putting Pergo flooring down in this room. The room needs to be gutted, actually, so that two outer walls can be insulated. In the winter, this room is bitter cold. I think the fact this table is still standing is our way of not dealing with the remodeling work which needs to be done. Plus, I'm not sure I want to discard this table. The problem is, we don't have any place else in this house to put it.

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