Illustration Friday and a new project

Illustration Friday and a new project
Gosh, I haven’t done illustration friday in so long that I’d lost the button off my sidebar. Funny tho, this one came and I just knew what I wanted to do – the theme this week is “Forgotten”:
Call it the “Jessie the cowgirl” or “Velveteen Rabbit” syndrome, but there is nothing sadder and more forgotten than a once loved toy. Last night my daughter almost went to bed without her blanket she’s been sleeping with since she was a baby. Funny, because I was on the phone looking at it, thinking “maybe she doesn’t need it anymore”. When I got off the phone she and my husband were conducting a frantic room by room search…and I have to say, my heart warmed and I was relieved. I think my parent’s generation would have thought it was an odd thing to bond with an inanimate object, but frankly I don’t see anything more heartwarming than loving something that much. So, thus….”forgotten” was a fairly simple theme for me.

I’m in the middle of “auditioning fabrics” for what (I hope) will be a quick and easy fill in project of a journal cover. I’ve been writing in a journal again and I’m hoping giving it a lovely cover will inspire me.
The centerpiece is a brazillian project I finished a while ago and the fabrics are all from Judith Baker Montano’s new collection. My fabulous client presented these to me a few months ago and I’ve been dying to do something wonderful with them. OH! And I got a fun package a few days ago:

Aren’t they yummy? YLI silk – I just can’t wait to use them! So, I think this little project is all mapped out, maybe I’ll get it done really quickly!

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