OK wait, The above photo shows the ‘Cuff Before’ photograph. Now onto the back story. You haven’t fully met this shirt yet, but you aren’t going to meet it now either. Not fully anyway, just enough so that you can get up to speed in my creative life. You see, it is crazy at Casa Melly.Continue reading “The Over Achiever + Gone Fishin’”
Author Archives: Melanie (Melly) Testa
Move those labels.
Eucalyptus dyed silk satin over linen, replaced label. Soon to become a strap for a Gather your Sew-plies purse, hippie style. I am moving labels around within my wearable art pieces. Very excited by the idea. My medias are mixing, it can be quite confusing. My orderly nature rebels, but the stuff I am making?Continue reading “Move those labels.”
And the winner is?
Congratulations Kristin, please email me as soon as you are able. And to all who took the time to comment, post links to your Facebook page, thank you. I invite those of you who have interest my my approach to keeping an artist’s journal to please sign up for my class. This is aContinue reading “And the winner is?”
Fragments old, made new.
The poppy sew-plies purse got nixed. I like that piece too much to cut it down to size and at the same time, I don’t want to have one off sized purse in the lot. So I searched my stash and am making a new ‘graffiti style’, embroidered ‘Gather your Sew-plies’ purse. Perhaps I couldContinue reading “Fragments old, made new.”
Sewing Sew-plies again and again.
This week I did an interview and spoke about living in a tiny apartment and maintaining a studio within it. I was reminded that I don’t need to apologize for liking things neat. Funny how I do that. When I was working at the poster restoration place, I helped organize supplies and keep the shopContinue reading “Sewing Sew-plies again and again.”
Dream Journal, new online class offering
I am putting the finishing touches on my first on-line journaling class Dream Journals and boy would I like to see you there. We will learn to use watercolors, resists, we’ll draw, paint, play and create journal pages that are richly layered and dynamic. All techniques covered in the class are taught in my book, DreamingContinue reading “Dream Journal, new online class offering”
Clothing Construction=Love
I live in New York City where folks wear a good deal of black, it is almost a uniform, and a dull one if you ask me. I have made a conscious decision to wear printed blouses and clothing. I mean, I love cloth and color right? So I think it is high time I putContinue reading “Clothing Construction=Love”
Officially Sew-plies Crazy
Yup! It’s official. I have jumped off the deep end. I don’t think anyone but me is quite so excited about my Sew-plies purse, but I am. So far I have made 6 of them, and I will be making even more. They have struck my funny bone and I can’t stop. I honestlyContinue reading “Officially Sew-plies Crazy”
Dreaming from the Journal Page Give Away+
Dreaming from the Journal Page is a pretty snazzy book, if I do say so myself. North Light was very gracious to me when they heard I had been diagnosed with cancer and rather than flying me to home base to have step out photographs taken, they hired a photographer to come to me. ManyContinue reading “Dreaming from the Journal Page Give Away+”
Looking back.
Hey there. This blog post is a bit hard for me to post but one I feel passionate about and one I feel needs to go live. It is about cancer, recovery and ‘going flat’. Last year, on June 21, I had bilateral mastectomy without reconstruction. And as you might imagine, my thoughts, feelings andContinue reading “Looking back.”
Melanie Testa 