Join us in Kansas, somewhere over the rainbow, where happy little bluebirds fly, and beautiful dreams come true, for classes with Lesa Dailey and myself. Our time will include 2 lunches, lots of treats, and a happy hour party.
This class is limited in size to the amount of vintage albums I have to craft into art journals. No two books are alike, so the selecting of covers will be chosen by guests in the order of class sign ups.
We will be using The Good Stuff, lots of lovely ephemera to create a personalized, one of a kind book.
Lesa will be leading us in making one of her delightful birds. Here are photos of birds I have gotten from her, not the pictures of what she will be teaching. I will let you know as soon as she gets a sample to me.
I do not tell Lesa what to make, she is a designing genius and I leave it up to her!
This will be my project for Sunday. Although I have to warn you, all will differ, as I am using old books to build the kits.
I will provide a very, very vintage album, disassembled, painted, waxed, and buffed, ready for you to craft into a book. I have many old albums, in different styles, and choice of the books will be in order of sign ups.
Also, if you would rather have a book cover as is, no paint, please request that ahead of time, so I can leave some plain.
Each kit will be of equal value and style, but they will vary according to the book itself.
Lesa's class will be most of the day Saturday, with a break for lunch.
Then in the later part of the afternoon, we will have some fairy fun, with happy hour crafting. There will be a special Bluebird Sangria, and blue fairies with some tasty snacks.
If you prefer to make a fairy from a picture of someone you love or of yourself, I can edit a photo for you. Or you can choose from a collage sheet that I will provide. Your fairy can hang, or be used in your book.
Your art journal kit will include pre-folded and prepped pages, ready to tie in, and vintage mats to use for collage or to frame a picture. I'm doing the boring part ahead for you, so you will have all the pieces ready to assemble, and have time left over to decorate interior pages.
You will get:
- Prepped covers from a vintage album
- Prepped pages and ribbons cut to tie them in
- Lovely laces to trim and embellish the cover
- Buttons, rhinestones, and velvet ribbon
- A soft, old millinery bloom
- A painted key
- Seam binding, netting, and other trims
- An ephemera pack
- Vintage wallpaper
- An old photo
- Bird images
I am cutting apart a treasured, hand pieced tablecloth of netting and old lace, everyone will get a section of this to use.
As well as gorgeous bridal lace with sparkling sequins and beads.
Cost will be $350 and can be split into two payments completed by May 1.
I will keep track of the order in which you respond, and that will determine who gets which album to work with.
Please email at
Karlanathan@sbcglobal.net
to ask for a paypal invoice or an address to mail a check.
Refund policy- Kits will be sent to you at a cost of $65 for Lesa's, $80 for the book, and $25 for the fairy plus postage, and the rest refunded in full. I know that many are worried about upcoming travel restrictions and wanted to make sure you were covered if that occurs. If you can't come to the class, you will at least have a project mailed to you to work on at home.
Our gathering is held during KCMO’s First Friday weekends, so you might want to treat yourself to shopping at the fabulous Old West Bottoms Antique District on Friday while in the area.
PS- I will be having surgery on Friday March 6, so please understand if I don't get back to you right away. Emails will be answered in the order they come in for sign ups. Thank you!!
Here are some of the albums I have that are in the original condition.
There are various colors and styles, all quite lovely. Some are velvet, some celluloid, some leather.
When I paint the red velvet ones, they turn a pretty color of pink.
This is Lesa's project from A Snowbird's Song last November.
I will leave you with some close ups of the album covers.
Here is one that I turned into an updated photo album that was left as is.
And this one was painted.
All are slightly damaged and tattered due to age. I look at that as an opportunity to use more lace on them!
