A Slice of Studio

by rosedeniz May 20, 2009 nesting

Tweet Seams to Me, by Anna Maria Horner on top of my first patchwork quilt, followed by a couple shelving photos. I’ve been in organization mode, repurposing plexi containers and bins that once held magazines and then toys. Lately I’ve been buying binders and putting everything in a clear folder. Fun.

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Red and Aqua

by rosedeniz May 20, 2009 nesting

Tweet My two favorite colors in the whole world meet in our kitchen. The vintage stitching that I had framed here in Turkey is from Emily Lynch Vintage, and the apron was my mother’s, given to me last year by my grandmother. I love the country home feel of it, which is fitting because we […]

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Writing

by rosedeniz May 14, 2009 writing

Tweet As an art and design blog, plus some things and ideas I just want to share, I haven’t really talked much about my writing or posted any links about the recent articles I’ve written as an expat mother for the Hurriyet Daily News. I also have scores of unpublished short stories, things I’ve gotten […]

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Day Job

by rosedeniz May 12, 2009 nesting

Tweet I thought there might be some of you that wonder just what it is I do when I creep off to ‘work’. This is not of the painting and drawing variety, but the earning hard cold cash one. Well, I buy things, take pictures of them, and write about them. Once in a while […]

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Return to Sender

by rosedeniz May 12, 2009 drawing

Tweet The sketchbook that I sent to the Art House Gallery got returned to me today, and I have no idea why because none of the little boxes were checked on the USPS sticker. Sad me. But check out the really cool stamps on the envelope! When I send out a package, I never see […]

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Preoccupations

by rosedeniz April 27, 2009 design

Tweet For the last several days, I’ve been thinking about a blog renaming. I’ve been blogging as Rose Deniz since 2005* (I can’t believe it!), when I began doing handbag design. Now that I’m not exclusively doing handbags anymore, it makes less sense to me to have my blog be branded with my name. My […]

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Opening

by rosedeniz April 26, 2009 art

Tweet This post will be longer than usual, for me, because I couldn’t edit the photos down to just one or two that I liked. This post is also a week late, as the opening was April 16, and today is the 26th. Sometimes my pictures stay on my camera to distill for awhile. I […]

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The Starter Quilt

by rosedeniz April 24, 2009 nesting

Tweet Throwing caution to the wind, I embarked upon my first quilt. The desire to make a quilt had been growing in me since my grandmother gave me quilt squares made by my great-grandmother almost two years ago. I’m not quite finished with this starter quilt, but nearly so. I didn’t follow a pattern. I […]

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Heirloom Quilt

by rosedeniz April 10, 2009 nesting

Tweet My diversion of the day has been to play around with fabric swatches in order to piece together the remainder of an unfinished quilt handed down to me by my grandmother. The squares were made by my grandfather’s mother. This is what one quilt block looks like: Originally I was thinking to use variations […]

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