Hence the "sucking it up" part.
I haven't gotten far, but it's going really well (slowly, as I'm tying lots of knots so that, if the hemp breaks, everything won't fall off), so I'm emboldened for tomorrow~~
This came off the front of a stand for a pen my aunt and uncle gave me when I finished graduate school, just a month before we bought this house. The pen and stand are long gone, but I found this in the Voodoo Doll Stuff box and flattened it with a rawhide mallet and punched some holes with the metal punch.
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I don't know how you envisioned your belt, Rice, but I think it may be the coolest one I've ever seen! I love the pieces you're adding. There is character and depth. I think it's becoming an outstanding art piece. I look forward to seeing it completed!
What a great belt project! Wow!
When I put off projects it makes me ask a lot of questions too. I realized that with the poncho I am making, the workmanship is more important to me that getting it done fast. So when it gets done, it gets done. Better than producing something that I will shove to back of the closet and never wear.
Good luck and have fun making the belt. -- Julie
Clever woman.
Thanks! I have this Idea that haunts me continuously and has for decades: that every garment I own will someday be completely itself, altered and embellished and full of meaning, a true fetish garment/object. In order for that to happen, I first have to get rid of most of what I own, since I have WAY too many clothes to be able to alter all of them. Then I have to figure out how to make this happen. Where to start? Native Funk and Flash is what did it to me, and I've never gotten over it and still can't articulate it. I need to put together an album of images that spark more ideas, though.
Too funny that you brink up a belt today...I was thinking that I need to make myself a belt just this morning. Now, that wouldn't be a big deal except that I am a big girl and being a big girl, I don't ever wear belts. It is my experience that big girls should not wear belts (it bulks the middle up even more than it already is) but all my jeans are getting a bit big in the waist and I need some way to hold them up. I'm thinking I am going to make a quilted one with scraps from my fabric stash and use some stiff interfacing in it.
Anyway, my point was just that we were both on belts today. Yeah, I took a long way to get to that point, didn't I? lol
I'm loving your art belt. That's what it is, you know? Very cool.
Peace & Love,
~Barb~
It's looking really cool!
Your belt is so cool. Never thought of adorning a belt like that. Something to think about.
Love the belt...love the tiara. ;=}
It's very easy not to try something because you're afraid of either stuffing it up or it won't turn out to how you envision it. I do that all the time. And it is a matter of sucking it up. The belt is coming along nicely. Can't wait to see it finished.
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