I've been volunteering at FABMO (super non profit) for the past few months and every time I go in, I tell myself that I will not bring home any more fabric! I thought I was going to be able to leave without finding anything and then BAM, the last box I opened up had these beauties. I plan to make pillows out of the black and gray silk. The blue one has amazing embroidering and if I could I would cover a whole sofa! It and the sea pattern will go into my stash to
be made into something at some point. One can only make so many pillows. Only if I had a beach house!
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
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