Chez Rex Designs

 While I was shopping for some new pieces to update my wardrobe I noticed the store was offering a free gift with a qualifying purchase. The store manager informed me that I qualified for the free gift. She offered me a choice of photo albums. I didn’t want or need them but the manager was so happy that I qualified for the gift that I didn’t want to make her feel bad by refusing it. I accepted the album and headed home.  Original freebie albums.  The photo album was fairly nice quality although the cover was an ugly shade of dark green with large embossed flowers. I felt bad throwing a perfectly good album in the trash and offered it to family members but no one wanted the album in its current state.  I had wanted to do a makeover project and this seemed like a good candidate. The only problem was that deeply embossed flowers covered most of the front cover.  I covered the entire album with gesso. The gesso soaked into the embossed areas but didn’t cover them up...

From time to time I will be featuring past projects.  Some of these items have made their way into our home decor and others sadly have been tucked away in a tote in the basement.   When I started quilting my kids wanted me to make them each a quilt.  I found Debbie Mum’s Bowsers and Meowsers book at a local quilt shop and decided to make them each a wall hanging to hang over their beds. Brittany chose the cat quilt and Michelle chose the dogs. We used the  same fabrics in each quilt so the color scheme would match.  Instead of fabric I chose plain black buttons for the dog’s and cat’s eyes. The pattern booklet was published in 1996 but copies can still be found on Amazon and e-Bay.  Both patterns are beginner friendly and go together quickly. This was my second quilt project.                    This was the easier of the two quilts.                     ...