From My Art Journal

Predominantly collage, mixed media:

Wonder, photo collage - Jennifer Hawkins Hock

Susurrus, stitched collage - Jennifer Hawkins Hock

stitched collage - Jennifer Hawkins Hock

stitched collage - Jennifer Hawkins Hock

collage - Jennifer Hawkins Hock

sunlight through stitched collage - Jennifer Hawkins Hock

stitched fashion collage - Jennifer Hawkins Hock, Toile La La

mail art collage - Jennifer Hawkins Hock

detail, mail art collage - Jennifer Hawkins Hock

Scent of Rembrandt Red, collage with reverse text - Jennifer Hawkins Hock

 

stitched mail art - art fashion creation

stitched mail art - art fashion creation

My Best Blogging Moments in Art and Fashion

Via blog editorship, I've certainly enjoyed life to a much fuller extent than I would as a random bystander. Blogging is the impetus navigating a continual search for creativity and subject matter for intriguing posts. At the end of this post, you'll find a few links to some of my favorite blogging moments. 

For six years I've maintained Art Fashion Creation and Toile La La, but you'll also find posts at the Wordpress blog dressesandhats. Too, you may remember the blog Better Shell Fitness, to which I contributed fitness reviews.  At these blogs, you'll also find reviews for fashion shows/exhibits, museums, travel, books, and music - all written in my nom de plume - Toile La La. The name Toile La La (pronounced twahl-lah-lah) originated from experiments in half-scale sewing and I kept it as a pen name because I enjoy the pronunciation.

Blogging is good motivation for exploring my own creative capacity.  During six blogging years, in addition to stitching those first half-scale design toiles, my art/fashion adventures include:

• millinery
• a hand-bound (coptic-stitched ) book and a more condensed zine titled 80s Fashion Design Book 1: Drawn
• the recent exhibit 2D to 3D: Artist Room Studies
• fashion fiction, quick fiction, and interior fiction 
• fashion collage and stitched collage
• mail art and stitched wordsmithing
• the F/W 2014 Romantic Souls fashion show
• the S/S 2015 Spontaneous Now fashion show and video
• the Advance A/H  F/W 15/16 L'Oeil Creatif a L'Avance fashion show

All told, it is my greatest pleasure to converse with other creatives. I feel I must almost glow with fascination during an interview - as my senses are so fully engaged. The following links lead you to my interviews with a variety of women - artists/designers/writers - all, women who inspire me with a particular eye, intelligence, written voice, or humor.

• Patricia Gaye Tapp of Little Augury and Ottoline Divine
• Karen Winslow, artist and former illustrator of sewing patterns
• Kathleen Sawyer, the back of the boat collage artist

Spontaneous Now Fashion Video

Here's your front row seat! This pink link will transport you to the Tres Petit Trianon Garden!

There's Pre-Show Excitement at Toile La La Now

Hie thee there now to soak up the vibe... Toile La La blog. Early arrivals are already reading the review and pre-show entertainment begins in 4 minutes.

Toile La La Spontaneous Now S/S 2015 Fashion Show, 3.23.15

Spontaneous Now S/S 2015 fashion show, Monday 3.23.15, 12:15 on location in the Tres Petit Trianon at the Toile La La blog