Karey's Overflow: Homemade book cover with felting

About Me

Name: Karey

Location: Colorado, United States

I garden at 8000 feet, cook from scratch, needle felt, read books continually, study history and epistemology, write daily, contemplate spiritual theology, and pursue heirloom arts. I love to paint pictures of living beyond maintenance -- living creatively, discovering beauty in everyday ordinary things. I've been happily married to Monte, who is a geologist, for a long time and still very much in love, even after raising a family and building two houses. Our children are our best friends. Heather is newly married to Bill. Travis, a minister of the fine arts, is married to Sarah. And Dawson is in college. I naturally live first-hand and have recently realized that this is how we educated our children and ourselves. I love to learn about everything, teach, and work with my hands. I love my home, but my life has overflowed -- as a teacher, radio/conference/retreat speaker, author, and most recently as a MOPS mentor. Kareyswan.com is an ideal way for me to share my overflowing life with kindred spirits and those hungering to move beyond maintenance -- to be known by who they are, not just by what they do.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Homemade book cover with felting

I'm getting ready to go to tonight's "Show & Tell", where artists (any who value creativity) from our church gather in someone's home. I'm bringing a book I made and added a piece of my needlefelting to the cover.

I've been making homemade books since I was in high school. My sister still has the many books I wrote, illustrated and put together for her. I had my kids make books. If they had an adventure, cool dream, or something they wrote, we'd often make it into a book and I'd have them illustrate it. We'd make extras so to give to the Grandparents as gifts.

Now I can make books with A LOT of pages because a couple Christmas's ago my daughter-in-love's sister Annie showed us how.

Labels: Happenings, My Art