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Today I’m working on adding one more journal to my collection. This time it will be a watercolor journal, something that’s easier for me to use since it’s all about mixed media! As I’ve blogged before, a journal isn’t ready to go unless it has some clothes and jewelry on! By this I mean, I […]
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Sunday was a relaxing day spent with my friend Barbara while my husband was at home watching football, and our dogs were playing in her garden. Barbara has a huge yard with an organic vegetable garden, and orchard full of fruit trees, a magic waterfall complete with Koi pond, a sunken garden, a garden down […]
As many of you know, I’ve been working on a weaving with pods I scavenged from my friend Barbara’s garden. This has definitely challenged me, since everything I thought I world do, hasn’t worked out quite like planned! Photos of the project here and there along the way seem to help just so I could see what it looked like from a different perspective, and how much progress is being made. When I see a picture of something I’m working on, it’s like looking at it through someone elses eyes, and many times it becomes much clearer as to what needs to be done. This has worked favorably for me in the past, and hopefully it did again!
Maybe it was the colors chosen, maybe the textiles, maybe even the pesky pods, but it’s been really difficult getting into this project. It’s a challenge that is much-needed for me to grow, and I won’t let it go! What I’ve learned from past projects is this; it’s usually the colors that aren’t speaking to me! I’m really a warm color person, and many of my creations are with rusts, yellows, gold, and then I splash some cool color into the project just to give it life, and interest. This time it’s the opposite, because I’ve used all cool colors, and they are having trouble getting their point across. It’s similar to when the cat sits and Meows at you, and you have no idea what the “bleep” he could possibly want!
The better part of Saturday was spent playing with textures, colors, yarns, ribbon, foil, and anything else I could think of. At some point I have to wonder if another artist is needed just to stop the insanity! After so many layers of really just about everything, finally it started to pull together, and I think, no I know I’m definitely I’m finished!
Have you ever started a project that was a huge challenge, and you almost wished you hadn’t started it? Did you keep on going! Or, did you toss in the towel, and decide your time was better spent on something really enjoyable? There isn’t any right or wrong way to handle this, we each reach our finish lines in our own way! I personally really dislike it when something I start is getting the better of me, and sometimes, but rarely do I allow it to win! Those times when I won’t let it go, are the times I sleep less, lay awake more, wake up exhausted, and dig in once again. This kind of thing could go on for way too long, and it’s every mans guess who will win!
All in all, I did have fun playing with it, but I don’t think I’ll be working with pods anytime soon!
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A couple of years ago I started seeing what are called Zentangles. They were on the internet, in magazines, some of my friends were asking me about them, and slowly I began noticing the complexity, and the benefit of Zentangles. Doodling will come naturally to us if we’ve doodled since we were kids, but […]
How could any artist do without help of some kind? If we had to pick up our own “stuff,” or do all the gardening, or wash our own cars, it either wouldn’t get done, or we wouldn’t have time to paint, and create! I’m so grateful to have Ariceli here to clean our bathroom, kitchen, to scrub floors, and chase the herds of dust bunnies that have taken up residence on the slate floor, and under the furniture! The dust bunnies have become more elusive since we’ve had Daisy, our dog. They duck, and dart in, and out of sight, leaving me wondering if I’m seeing things! Well, yes, as a matter of fact, I was seeing things, they are called “Dust Bunnies!”
Sometimes when we are quietly enthralled in a movie, paying absolutely no attention to anything around us, out of the corner of my eye I think I see something roll by. Subconsciously it doesn’t even register until a couple of minutes later when, it dawns on me, ” What was that, a heard of mice, or dust bunnies? ” Rarely, if ever, in my life have I seen a herd of mice running through the house! So out of process of elimination, it must be a heard of “Dust Bunnies!”
Ariceli’s job has increased a little since we now have a dog, and a cat! It was bad enough to have Kramer in the house, he drags toys around, and shreds our books if we don’t put them away. We now are careful to hide reading material out of sight leaving me to wonder if Kramer is on the take, you know extorting money from Ariceli for getting us to clean up some of our own mess!
Today is the day we get help, and yes we do a little pick up prior to her arriving. Somehow, the few days before she comes, we get a bit messy, and leave things here and there. Our home is really small, and this doesn’t help, but still we continue to be messy!
After she has cleaned all the nooks, and crannies, steamed the floors, and herded all the Dust Bunnies, we always walk into the rooms with a huge sigh of satisfaction. I dread taking time to slow down while Ariceli cleans, but I love the times when we walk into our rooms and can’t see any shredded ropes, squeaky toys, leaves, or other stuff lying around. The house is fit for company, but we aren’t having any, so we’ll just sit here and enjoy the quiet, cool, of a clean house just the two of us! Ariceli is truly a “House Whisperer!”
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Last night , as I was trying to figure out just how I wanted to weave those pesky pods I’ve been working on. A bright idea popped into my mind , and I started playing with the neutral burlap I purchased several days ago. Wondering how the burlap would take fabric dye, […]
Old as Dirt and Proud of it! 
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