FREE: CIGAR BOXES GONE PASTEL

Once again, MizMollye has inspired me. The other day she put up a whole slew of beautiful vintage cigar box art, free to download. The box labels were so fabulous, I downloaded the whole bunch.

I was looking at them, mulling over possibilities for use, when it occurred to me that for some uses pastels or sepia might work better for me. Minutes later, I was opening them in my photo editor and happily playing with the colors.

If there are any here that you'd like to take, feel free to click and copy. (And be sure to visit MizMollye's post, too, to get the original, fantastical, bright art!)

















My apologies if there are duplicates in this post. The computer is fighting me, and this month has officially caught up with me. I've caught cold, and will now carry myself off to bed, and hope I did this entry right!

A SMOKIN' LITTLE PURSE

Okay, truth in titling: My friend, Buddy, did the smokin'.

Then he gave me the cigar boxes to prove it, and they were the awesomest cigar boxes I've ever seen, bar none.



Never have I been so glad that someone I knew was a smoker! Unfortunately, never, also, have I been so busy, so the Big Bag o' Boxes lay in my sewing room floor for several weeks, lurking in the corner of the room, and tiptoeing into my head whenever they saw fit.

Then, the other night, I was sitting with my laptop, minding my own business, when DH declared his intention to go to sleep. I shut my laptop, and the thought was there, instantly: Okay. I have to make something now. ( If I go too long without creating, I get kinda itchy inside, somehow. Do you ever have those moments, when you just have to make something, have to let your creative impulses hold sway?)

Downstairs I trooped, and this is the result of that "make something now" moment:




This is, as it were, a prototype, and there are a few things I'll do differently next time, but on the whole I think the bag turned out really cool. I'm looking forward to doing one with lots of lace, a plaid one, a polka dot one, a floral....