something new!

hello all, I've got a tutorial for my fiber art friday friends, sort of a tutorial... This is my first video showing how I created something so there are no fancy frills and edits or anything, maybe next time. And I'm sure I will try it again, as I think it's like eatting chips or getting a tattoo, you always want to do more...

Anyway, it's only 2 minutes so please check it out and let me know what you think...

The weather this week went from glorious autumn to rainy and cold and foggy...

This week I finished a watercolor butterfly and I'm mailing it to a butterfly effect project over at...http://twodressesstudio.blogspot.com/
read about the project here..
http://twodressesstudio.blogspot.com/2010/08/butterfly-effect-open-is-calling-you.html
to expalin  a little I copied this from her blog...

The Butterfly Project mandate is   to remember the 1,500,000 innocent children who perished as a result of the Holocaust  by collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies. 

 In Spring 2013, these butterflies will then become a break-taking exhibition to serve as a memory of this event. 

This is such an interesting project... I've been to the Holocaust museum in DC and it's a very hard place to visit. So incredibly shocking and sad.
You can participate too... either through the blog above by mailing your butterfly there or you can do it on your own through the address she provides. At her blog she has photos of all the butterflies she's gathered and shipped out...

I'm linking to Inspiration Avenue , please go by there as they've got a blog anniversary going on, with freebies and more...http://inspiration-avenue-team.blogspot.com/
 They asked what inspires each of us... for me it's nature mostly, feelings and moods next, then there's always other's art... and holidays inspire me too, and the weather and people watching. etc etc etc...

and to the butterfly effect. their theme is wings.....http://whisper-to-whirlwind.blogspot.com/
and to creative friday, and of course... paint party friday!
http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

and Yeah to me, I won a copy of

Destination Creativity: The Life-Altering Journey of the Art Retreat [Paperback]

by Rice Freeman-Zachery   from Seth Apter's the alteredpage blog!!!...
http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/    I'm so excited!
See ya next week...

what a fast week

I hate to do a rushed post but that's all I have time for ... a quick peek at some bookmarks I painted in watercolor just to occupy my work breaks and a almost finished needlefelted ornament... sorry I didn't get the how to video made yet as I haven't finished the ornament I'm making it about. This one is almost doen, just needsa few beads, and a ribbon or two...

and here's the bookmarks...

and just one quick photo of my week...

have a good week, now off to more rush, rush, rushing!!!

Happy paint party friday!

Another week has flown by, I was determined to finish somethig instead of starting something new but it was not to be, I started another watercolor and almost finished it. I can't even show you though as it's still at work and I am not yet. so here's a few of the started painting's I have waiting to be worked on... All I've done is her hair and the balloons...

This is how I do my watercolors, I rarely do much wet into wet  and I use this same tiny brush for usually the whole painting. I HAVE other brushes so I don't know why I never pick the others up. My paints are actually much cleaner than usual, most of the time there's actually mixed colors all over the lid as well. Nothing fancy here.

And here's the other one I started a while ago...in ACRYLIC! Only have the clouds done so far...

The theme for the sketchbook challenge this month was everyday objects so I did a few quick sketches in my tiny book. I found I don't like sketching man made objects as much as nature....

and as we've had a busy week here... the earthquake where we evacuated our building; a dentist appt. which I panic about, I hate dentists;and  I won the alpacateam challenge again! Yeah, so much fun!; and then there was sending my daughter back to college and such: so....I didn't needlefelt again, surprise surprise, but before she left she made this cute pin!

I made it to all the paint party friday sites last week I think, but I apologize as I did not get to all the creative friday ones or all the fiber art friday ones. There's just so much cool stuff to see and only so much time!

Have a great week,

sisterhood sketchbook...

This week's been too hot to do too much. I did finish my pages in Jaime's sketchbook. They're so much fun to get in the mail each month, especially as they get fuller and fuller... I won't show all the art in it before me but here's Jaime's first spread to introduce herself....

So cool!

 and next Brandy from artbrat.blogspot did May's page and Lisa from Pritistudio.blogspot did a pull out section for June....Both are awsome (although I don't think my photos of them do them justice) and wonderful to look over before starting on my spread for July!

This month I didn'd do a spread of art and a spread to explain it as usual, I did 2 spreads full of watercolor words of what I think about when I think about July, with a falling lady thrown in just because!...

Happy paint party friday and creative friday  and crafty friday to everyone! Oh wait, I should add some of Brandy's needlefelting as I didn't do any again.... she's won another treasury challenge and is using this cool brooch...

 and she also made this very cool breakfast play set of felt!

Happy fiberarts friday too!

another week fly's by...

I managed to finish alot this week... mainly because I'd already started most of it quite abit ago. But it still feels good to finish things...

here's my  submission for paint party friday! I've still got about 5 more in this series I'd like to finish but for now I got these 4 done. They might be destined for a mug design...

                                                                    The berry queen...

                                                                  All things cute....

The wildflower queen...

Not a care...

Next I finished 3 more dioramas at a coworkers request for a birthday gift. She picked the friends one, the wine one I did when I decided I didn't like a watercolor painting I had done so instead of toss it I remade it into an altoid tin diorama. These are fun and addicting... Theses photos don't really show the shadow effect of being raised up with popdots, There's 3 levels in each, like in the last one: each tiny flower is actually cut out and raised above the lady, but it's hard to show.

And for fiberart friday here's my felted necklace I was working on and only had one bead.I'm actually not sure it's done yet, the center bead seems to be asking to be even bigger and bolder and brighter!

And last, for no reason at all......here's a photo of the view from a park where I went to eat lunch the other day...

and of course... Happy crafty friday, creative friday and whimsical wednesday to everyone. See ya next week!

another fast week...

I missed a week as we were on vacation in a great state park on a tiny lake! so relaxing and quiet! We hiked fished and swam and I sketched a bit in my book, and we made sand castles... well... sand mermaids!.

Not sure what to show this week... I guess I'll go with what a cluttered mess my mind is now that I'm backhome again...
 I have soooo many unfinished watercolors and/or acrylics on brown paper....maybe 30 or so.....

I have started clay belly birds and my son smushed them....

I have been working on some dolls I started a year ago....and the dioramas I showed 2 weeks ago aren't finished yet...

We were given a bag of wool and I made a bead that's hoping to be part of a great, colorful wacky pendant necklace with a big floral center someday....

And on my lunch I went to see some of the other palette's that are now set up around Hammondsport! So many really great ones that I was more than intimidated about mine. Here's just a few of the 50 or so palettes... Prepare to be impressed, although the photos don't really do them justice!...

Have a great week everybody,and hello to all those from whimsical wednesday, and  happy friday to all those at paint party friday, crafty friday, creative friday and Fiberart friday!