Play Around

Experimenting

It's time to play!!

Here is a tyvek experiment from a workshop. I used torn out words and pics from a beautiful magazine. Then I covered them in blue and yellow/green tissue paper. It dried really clear. I didn't think anything would show through the tissue paper as well as it did. I love the tyvek experiment.

Now I will try my heat gun on a piece of tyvek and see the outcome. I love experimenting. The white background piece is actually the plastic protection cover after I painted another piece of muslin. There is great detail and texture in plastic too.

PASSION

Words in "Passion" - i pass on. I love finding words in words.

When you get a block with your hobby or life in general, what do you do to spur on your passion? What brings you unspeakable joy? Someone ask that yesterday - what do you do to keep your passion? Does passion wane? Is it ok to just keep doing what you do until the passion begins to return? What do you have a passion to do?

Living In A World Of Color

Living In A World of Color

Yesterday I spent the morning having a little fun, ok actually lots of fun. It was really hot here so I took my paints outside and painted on muslin.


Here is one finished piece. It really is much more defined in the colors and brighter. No matter how many pics I took with my camera I could not capture the real look of the piece. I am surprised with what I did bc color is a real struggle for me.





Now here is a favorite color - orange. I mixed red and yellow with a little pink. Using a sponge brush I worked the paint out to the edges. Then I wrote words on the wet fabric with white fabric paints. This piece makes me so joyful. I can't help but smile when I look at the colors.

What color are you seeing in right now? Is it true colors represent and evoke certain feelings?

I love this quote by Louise L. Hay "The thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences." One chapter in her book titled "Success" says "Every experience is a Success". I think I will begin to look at experiences more that way than whether or not they are a failure. A failure is just another opportunity to learn. "Everything I touch is a success," is a great affirmation to keep before us.

Button Fairies

Button Fairies

Noel sent me the beautiful winged button fairy. I just didn't know how to make one. So after looking at hers, I attempted one. I found these old buttons from my grandmother's stash. I forgot these were something my mother gave me from her mother. So even the fairy face is a button. The wings are yoyos. I left the wire extended bc i am going to add some beads. This one isn't for trade bc its not really constructed very good. If I keep fiddling with it maybe I can complete a few for the FAT trade.

My oldest son text messaged me this morning to say, "thinkin bout you this morn...want you to know how much i love you, your an amazing mom i love you so much." He's so thoughtful. Made my day no matter what else may come.

With that said I hope you know you are loved even more than that by our Heavenly Father.

post script

my hubby called to say he loved me and to tease me about our going on a cruise in December. He calls me everyday to tell me how much he loves me. I am spoiled!!

Brown Baggin' It

Brown Baggin It

In our last lesson for MMSD there is a process using a brown bag, inks and paints to make a journal. Here is my brown bag process. I added a little gold inking along with vera mark ink and colored embossing powder, then used my heat gun. I am getting a little braver in using that thing. Oh I forgot to mention the process is suppose to make it look like leather. I'm not there yet but I may put some purple fabric swatches on to the front of the cover. I have jute and bamboo yarn that I may use too.

CHANGE

Well my world is getting ready to change drastically. I won't have as much time to myself beginning this week. But everything changes and nothing remains the same except Jesus, the same yesterday, today and forever. Am I up for the change? - only time will tell. I like this round table conversation on TBN tonight. Its time for breaking the back of low self-esteem in many of us. I would agree with that one. Let me see through the eyes of Jesus what he sees and I will never be the same again.

Are You A "Nice Girl"?

TP Pendant

I 've been playing with faces and pendants. FAT was having a tp jewelry trade but I couldn't finish a piece good enough to show and trade. So i am posting one i finished last night. i need to perfect it but i enjoyed working on it. i added filling inside, added decorative stitching on the front, a little rub-0n butterfly with the words "flit, flit" and my partial face. I love that i can use parts of the face not all of it. who said you have to use the entire mold. the pendant is one piece folded in a way to close with the little loop at the top. i'll keep working to perfect them. i also like the white face, although i did add clear glitter paint with a touch of orange on the lips.

WHA'CHA READING

A friend sent me the book "nice girls don't change the world" by lynne hybels. It starts out with "I want to tell you about someone I used to know very well. She was a nice girl; obedient, polite, socially acceptable. A bit to reticent, some might say, but so very pleasing, nonetheless A really nice girl." How many of us know the "nice girl" for lack of really saying anything about that person? How many of us see ourselves as that "nice girl." I love this little story lynne tells of herself and her fears.

Along with each phase of our lives fear can come in and take over if we let it. Many times the uncertainty of life overrides the Truth of God's Word. But His Word says "I have given you a spirit of love, and of power, and of a sound mind." I also like the verse in Joshua, "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified, do not be discouraged, for I am the Lord your God and I will be with you wherever you go." I can't tell you how many times I have stood on that verse. Lynne Hybels says it took her turning 50 to realize life is short, and if she didn't start living it, she might never have the chance. She would now be willing to live her life and be willing to have failure. She watched her friend run the Chicago Marathon and as a runner passed her by, she noticed the words on her t-shirt: the front read "Done Watching" and on the back it said, "Doing". Isn't that where we all want to be? Doing what we love, our passion deep within us?!!

An interesting statement she made was this "You know what some of us fear more than anything else? Each other. Other women's success stories." So I say today,

CELEBRATE LIFE, GO DO SOMETHING YOU HAVE HAD A DEEP DESIRE TO DO FOR A LONG TIME, ENJOY YOUR LIFE, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S!!!

Nesting

I just love this little dove I bought at Garden Ridge on Friday. I could not resist taking her home with me. She has the sweetest eyes and there is something I love about her color.

She is perched in my flower pot full of pens and pencils. I am going to try an sketch her for some of my art work. In this pic she is sitting in her little purple nest of tulle. I should name her. What to name her?

Counting Sheep Not Working

Well as you can see by the hour I am still awake. I will post this quick blog post and then up to art room to work on a project. Not sure why I am not sleepy.

Seems that the "counting sheep" idea is not working. Any other suggestions - anyone have a hammer, maybe you could knock me out. lol I would say see you in the morning, but we're already there. See you later.

What Does God See?

silly me, i just had to post these while they were in progress. i so love the colors, they are refreshing. the last one has not been finished. the little pearl beads are going to work their way around the head and down the ATC following the pink cording. i will work on it later today. i started back on "making pearls" and for some reason this time i am getting so much more out of doing it. i guess my brain has been short-circuiting. anyway, i will begin another new workshop on monday with beryl taylor's book.
can't wait to see where we go with it!! i also have an AB book in my head that i am actually drafting and sketching out. something i never do, but feel i need to do templates and work the kinks out before using paper, fabric and other things. But then again maybe a "failed" attempt would be good bc they never are botches, just another expression to be used at a later date. nothing wasted.

WHAT DOES GOD SEE?

That reminds me of the scripture again. "God uses all things for good to them that love Him."
I keep wondering how that looks. To God it looks totally different than what the world sees bc He sees it filtered through His Son, Jesus. Thank God for that!!