 Hey guys, how are you today? All right So we need to sit right now today and add in Some of these this stack here on the side of bits and pieces. I've been finding and collecting to add to this month's Section of my year 2017 journal one of the things I really really kind of want to do is use some of this fabric in this month I've been commemorating my grandmother this month who passed away about three four years ago three I think In February her birthday was in around this time of year or she also she passed away her funeral was on Valentine's Day and This happens to be it's not the prettiest fabric. I'm aware of that but this happens to be one of her house coats and I have a few of them and although the fabric is not my favorite They were hers, right? So they're really difficult to get rid of I want to see about adding a little section of this fabric. It is really time to just go ahead and cut it apart and add a little section of it to the journal and to make I think I'm thinking I want to make some sort of a little pocket Or something so I'm actually going to get brave here and we're going to just whack off a sleeve grandma. I'm sorry And that fabric will be back will be doing something else with it if you've watched this if you're watching I should say this video And you haven't seen the basic setup for this month yet that video is already here on YouTube and The link is in the Facebook group since I am the last week of the month And I am wrapping up the month of February and we're I'm going to be starting March on the Sunday after my week So I'm not going to tell you about the March prompt, but I do have a video where I go through you know Just the basic gluing and pasting and my thoughts behind what I put where and as you can see as as of the taping of this I haven't done my book reviews yet because I haven't written them down But if you want to that video is is already here on YouTube and you can Go see that It you know, I didn't do anything super complicated, but I did You know, I did I didn't find a few fun little bits and pieces to stick into my journal And I found some more so let's see what we're going to do with this piece of fabric I really do kind of want to make it into some sort of a pocket All right, so We can put something here There is space right there We could put something here at the bottom underneath this love And I do have some ideas for how I want the pocket to look I also have this space here, which I might want to use that space. So How big is that? Let's measure it Of course the ruler I grab is the little teeny tiny one because you know So it's about four and a half by Four and a quarter So let's put that aside. Let's grab our fabric and I'm going to take off the elastic around the bottom of the sleeve And I'm going to cut it open down the seam I'm going to just cut about a quarter of an inch half an inch off and which includes the seam So we can open it up and have a flat piece of fabric This would be great to do with any fabric that you have That to you is going to commemorate something about the month of February and love maybe it's a piece of one of your kids Old baby clothes. Maybe it's a blouse that you loved or something you wore when you out went out to An event with a friend Or in my case a piece of vintage fabric that's from someone that you care about who's no longer with us I'm going to cut his shape I'm going to put that aside make sure So I want to get out my box of bits and pieces Um, I have my fabric scraps or um and mix me that I use for mixed media organized in a similar fashion To how I have my glue book Um, the bins are just bigger So this one is just literally bits and pieces and trims This one is lace and specialty fabrics like denim and silk Um, the one underneath is felt. I also have one that's distressed in vintage fabrics and Um one that's just cotton prints I think for right now we want this one And Maybe I might need this lace one I'm looking for a particular piece of lace that might be it might be in the vintage bin Yep, here it is. I found it I have pieces of old quilts. I have handmade lace store bought lace Um, this is a piece of vintage a long piece of vintage lace Um, and I'm going to cut off A section put the rest back I might want this box. So we'll leave that kind of handy So I'm going to first I'm going to I'm going to rattle the edges of this red flannel fabric. This is flan cotton flannel So I'm going to just distress the edges by pulling some of the threads out The fabric is old. So if it rips a little bit, I'm okay with that Um, I want to distress it. So There we go Ha ha and I want to layer it on top of some of this lace It's a little bit big. So let's Let's trim some more And then I think I want to put Some Do I want to put burlap? No, I might just want to put the lace We might we'll see so let me get my sewing machine out. Let's let's get that sewn up Okay So here we've sewn the little square of fabric from grandma's house coat to the lace I'm going to actually trim off the top And you know because I use fabric for collage and this is a decently sized piece It's not going to go in the trash can it's going to go in my scrap spin And now I want to I think sew this little tag that I found In my stash of stuff when I was putting together another video for this week Um, and this is from a crazy island family tag swap And I think I want to sew this one this one I made this one was gifted to me And so I'm trying to decide which one I want to put on here I'm kind of thinking I like the blue one on here because there's blue in the house coat So we're going to just quickly sew that on Now this is a little machine I keep just for sewing paper And mixed media applications don't do any paper sewing On your really nice dress making machine. It's not good for the machine Trim the threads. I'm not going to trim them all the way if some of the threads kind of are hanging I'm going to let that go it lends itself to this just kind of distressed quality of the piece No, there's another piece of thread there somewhere That's not it I don't know So now we have this piece and we can put it in our Journal and you can have it be a pocket or you can just have it be a decorative piece either way Um I really like it. How do I want to stick it on there? I don't know that I don't want to put something inside of it But I don't know I don't think I do I think I want to just have it be a little art piece now that I've made it Um and just have it be something in here A little piece of grandma So let's get some glue on we're going to just use elmer's extreme Nothing fancy I'll try to remember to put in materials to add these some of these things to the materials list So if you if I forget somebody remind me Now if you have the type of journal you're using for this year where your pages are loose And you want to have it be a pocket. Maybe you want to sew it in So there you go a piece of somebody I love to remember them this year. I'll do some journaling around it And um I'm going to love having a little piece of her in my journal for this year. This is really great And I have another little thing I'm going to make with some of that fabric too. It's coming up in another video So think about creating something that you Love and enjoy from something from someone that you love. Maybe they've gifted it to you Maybe it's a piece of like a this a piece of vintage fabric or paper from somebody who's past One of your children maybe or grandchildren have given you something Use the little bits and pieces they've given you even if it's not for valentine's day in your journal I think you're going to really like that Treasuring their memory and their love in your journal in that way That's it for right now everybody. Don't forget to like share and subscribe These little mixed media pieces by the way of fabric and paper are really great for tags Gifts not only in your journal But they're great to send out and happy mail. Think about adding more fabric and lace to your work It really is a fun thing to do If you want to join the facebook group my year 2017 and you're not in not yet in the group Or my other group a life of art and self-expression or you would like to support my channel by shopping in my etsy shop All those links are in the description below. Don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and i'll see you later. Bye guys