Friday, November 29, 2013

happy black friday

My puppy no longer looks like a puppy...




 Now he's not just cute he's beautiful, right?
My daughter found out he's most Shiba Inu: very hard to train, very loyal, small, cat like, very popular breed in Japan. He's about 35 pounds and probably as big as he's going to get.


My latest mandala, inspired by pomegranates and owls:





wanting to create
but online shopping to do
painting in my head
 

Monday, November 25, 2013

mushroom mandala

 
I spent much of this summer taking pictures of mushroom along with searching for bees. I have so many photos I thought I should make an attempt to post a few ... and the mandala that I did back at that time, I think the colors are inspired by them, along with all the golden rod that was everywhere back at the end of summer.
 
 
 Tiny mushroom families.............



 


 




 

Friday, November 22, 2013

Focusing is hard

I have been busy with birthdays and things of that sort lately, but I have also been trying out a new plan to concentrate on one thing at a time. Give all my creative free time focus to just that one thing, but since focusing is where I run into trouble I decided to just stick with one hobby for a month. Just one, good lord that's hard. My mind normally flits between painting in acrylic, in watercolor, making things in clay and stringing beads for necklaces & needlefelting, and writing and tons of other crafts. I don't do as many of the other things besides painting but they are still on my mind if I had time. So to cut down on that mental clutter I told myself, just one, and I have had a story in my head for awhile now so I have been concentrating on that for a few weeks instead of painting. It's going ok but already after just 2 weeks I had to paint a mandala again, just had to.

 This one is large, whatever bigger size comes after 11x17, the next size up in watercolor pads....
 watching water flow
the liquid color rolling
helped by my small brush
And I have tons of paintings and photos to show you that I have done over the summer and never posted...  I'll get a few photographed for next week....

but first...

I got these in the mail.... some things I had made up at café press with my paintings. If you are interested you can find them in my etsy shop this weekend or you can get them from café press, or you can put your own images on items at café press. It was very easy to set up, my only problem so far is that I have about 8 designs that are available thru café press so far and someone out there has already purchased the falling with a pink pig on an apron!!!!!, (thank you, out there) so I know my images can be found but they don't show up in my "shop" there. If any one has advice for using café press I could use the help, but actually other than that it was very easy to use.

This might work as a link to my designs, and here's café press's link....

 you can see the magnet here...


 and a note card....

 These little buttons have a pin back but also fit into the tiny pendant lockets you can get in gift shops or on etsy, I can't think of the name of the shop, I'll have to show you later...
 these ornaments are thin, light metal, I thought I would sign the back for my etsy shop.....






See ya next week...

Friday, November 15, 2013

I made this mandala a year ago...


 
 
I may or may not have showed you...
I started a video of me making it back then, but never edited it....
here it is...

 

Too rushed for haiku
words running away to hide
wont you forgive me?
 
see ya next week....

Friday, November 8, 2013

my little altar

I have a little spot next to my desk at work.
I don't call it an altar to the people who pass by when they question my stuff,
But I think that's what it is...
 
filled with tiny bits
collections, dreams and big thoughts
flotsam and jetsam
 
when I go out collecting, stuff ends up here...
 

 sometimes I arrange it for photos...









 

 
sometimes I sketch it...
 


I bought that little wishing pot on vacation this summer at an artisan gallery, It had the best tag... I'd quote it but I lost it somewhere along the way. It listed all the things you could keep inside... stuff like secret wishes, imaginary toys, hopes and dreams, fairy dust,........ and I really wish I hadn't lost that tag.  The pot also came with a fortune inside that you couldn't read till you had purchased it, and it was only like $3.00 I think. A DEAL! I have added some secrets to it but there's still room for lots more....

 
 
 
Happy PPF & Haiku my heart!