Creativity in Faith Communities

Credit Humble Walk Lutheran Church

This is a take off from yesterday's post.  I am pleased to announce that Humble Walk Church has launched a Kickstarter campaign this morning, with the intent of recording a compilation CD of all the original songs that have been written for our community this year.  We intend to make this resource available to our mission partners and others at no cost.  But we need to get start-up money from somewhere.  So if you have a few extra dollars and the desire to support a funky little collection of musicians and an even stranger little church...follow the link below:

Humble Walk Lutheran Church Kickstarter Campaign

Wreck This Journal

A few weeks ago I started participating in a group art project using the book, Wreck this Journal, which is a collection of prompts that inspire you to do various creative and destructive things.  It's been a blast to get out all my colored pencils and do things to a book that I never imagined that I would.

Follow this link to see a few things that I have done to the book.

Wreck this journal 2013

Grandma Amy, I miss you

The final project!
Every once in a while, something takes me aback and makes me miss Grandma Amy all over again.  Grandma Amy taught me how to sew, and was one of the most talented seamstresses that I have ever met.  She made my mother's wedding dress, my first prom dress (after all I specified was that I wanted to "look like Cinderella") and several dresses for my sister Katie.  

Yesterday I decided to sew a laptop sleeve for my new MacBook Pro.  I looked at patterns online to figure out the proportions for the sleeve, then went to JoAnn's to get crafty.  As I meandered through the aisles of fabric and picked up all the necessary things, it made me miss Grandma Amy.  I feel very blessed that I was able to learn as much from her as I could, but really wish that she was still around to call when I have questions about my sewing projects.  Or furthermore, to just call when I want to talk.  I really wish that she was still with us.  The world is a little lonelier without Amy Rody in it.

I cut the fabric and attached fusible
fleece to the outer layers

After about an hour of getting inspired and being indecisive, I picked out fabrics in a chocolate brown/aqua color scheme.

Then I angled and pinned the zipper and sewed the outer
layers together and inner layers together.