This week

Hello, Thank you for all the great comments last week, especially since I barely got around to anyone else's posts... My son DID do wonderful at school like you all hoped. I'm knocking on wood everywhere but it's been going great this first week!!!

I didn't finish either of the two projects I've been working on. But here's my started watercolor...I was using a magazine photo for the woman, but I wanted her to be a little more sad than the photo so I'm not trying to make her look like the picture, just using it for reference, same as my picture of the red flowers, I actually want them to be white, so that there's more contrast against the dark night.

Here's the start...

Here's my reference photos...

and here's the almost finished piece...

I also started a new needlefelted item that I've been thinking about ever since Spinster Beth@
http://spinsterbeth.blogspot.com/2011/09/oh-enough-already.html suggested I do ornaments like the necklace I started... so here's my started ornament... it needs some embroidery and a few felt petals in the middle still. I think it needs to be over the top, overdone, so maybe even a bead or two.

They take forever but at least I've gotten back at needlefelting! Hope to show you both finished next week plus I'll have to add in something new as there's so much more started from weeks ago!

On top of the usual paint party friday, crafty friday, creative friday, fiberart friday I just found a site: artists in blogland, and am linking up there. I'm putting their link on my sidebar so go check it out!

wow, this week went fast...

Can't believe it's friday already, I haven't even visited all the sites from last friday.

So  Hello evryone at paint party friday! This week I have my jointed paper dolls to show you. They're painted in watercolor and cut out and put together with brads then decorated. They're already in my shop on etsy.

This is what I wrote about her for the shop: "This lady: Ceyandra is all about being green. She recycles, she takes care of the earth and she loves every minute of it. She'll be a reminder to reuse, recycle and make do, as well as to remind you to get out into the wild and enjoy life!!!"

This doll, Bronwyn, is all about her friends. She's funny, happy and the best friend you've always wanted. Having her hang around your house will remind you to pick up the phone and call a friend you haven't seen in a while, or you could even buy her for a friend!

And for fiberart friday people... Hello there too.... again I haven't felted all week but Brandy has. These are in her shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/barefootbananas?ref=ss_profile
I love them!

Next week I should have a bunch to show as I'm working on dioramas in altoids tins, I'm trying to fininsh up a bunch of paintings and I'm about done with my sisterhood sketchbook. I totally love getting them in the mail  to look over!!!  Don't forget to also stop by creative friday, crafty friday and whimsical wednesday! Hello to everyone from there!

I'm back...

hello, I've been absent for a few weeks but happy to be back. The first friday a storm took out our internet and last friday our computer died completely... a brand new computer later and... here I am with finally my palette all done. It's been delivered to it's summer home for a few weeks... As almost an afterthought I added five words hidden in the clouds as a finishing touch. They're hard to see...

And haven't needlefelted in the whole time but my daughter made some totally adorable snails!!!

Stop by paint party friday and creative friday, crafty friday, whimsical wewdnesday, and fiberart friday to see more great stuff!

This week...

Hello, another week's come around... We've had a few horrible, no good, very bad days here...so I've been too busy too post. I have made treasuries on etsy though... they're great as an escape from things as they're quick, and creative. If you've never made one it can be addicting. You pull together art, photography and etsy items and create a mood. Like some people match an outfit or plan a quilt or whatever, by picking the right colors and styles and themes. I've done ones lately with themes like: when I wear my bay bracelet I feel like the lady of the lake, the lillypads wait for me and the dragonflies know my name...
and when I wear my alpaca shrug I feel like a goddess on Mt. Olympus!. They're fun. If you want to see them you can click on my shop on the right sidebar, go to my profile and click on latest treasuries. I'm even thinking in treasuries now... maybe I shouln't admit this, lest you think I am crazy but I was driving to work, it was rainiy and all of the sudden lately very green. Its a curvy road, lots of trees and a creek beside the road... such a  pretty, watery scene. I was thinking how pretty, when a new white truck came toward me from the other direction. I immediately thought, "NO, that's wrong, it doesn't fit. But thank goodness it wasn't red, that would have been totally out of place but an old junker Ford Pick-up might have been better!" That's when I realized I may be spending too much time on etsy!

So anyway... earlier this week I did get some things done...I finished the two tiny needlefelted worlds...

And my daughter made this...a little needlefelted box for a tooth fairy or a ring...

and I have been working on my palette. It will be done next week...

 And I received My sisterhood of the traveling sketchbook in the mail from PritiLisa. It's a wonderful shrine box! The one photo shows her first page and my page for May! I did a painting of a girl in a pink bathrobe as I remember a trip to Washington DC when I was young when I went outside early in the morning still in my bathrobe and could smell sooooo many spring flowers and flowering trees!

Thanks for stopping by, Rememeber to check out all the friday sites (fiberarts friday, paint party friday, creative friday, crafty friday and whimsical wednesday) on my sidebar and stop by the other Sisters blogs to see what they've done in their sketchbooks! Have a good week! thanks for visiting!

This week...

I gave up trying to do my post friday with all of bloggers troubles... but here' s what I made this week...I made a little needelfelted "belly bird" like my little paintings. It's alpaca  except for the belly and beak. 

I started a few little fairy worlds inside an antique canning jar lid, that I posted part of on wednesday, but I haven't finished them yet... maybe next week...

My daughter made a snake, Balthasar...

Both are available in her shop...
http://www.etsy.com/shop/barefootbananas?ref=pr_shop_more

And I worked just a bit on the palette... I haven't had much time to work on it as it's much more of a project to get out , much more involved than grabbing a needle and sitting on the couch while I work. I even brought it home, (it had been at my mother's to keep it out of my son's grasp) but that hasn't given me much more time. I have to make it a priority soon as the deadline is 2 weeks away...

I still have to blend the purple up into the light blue adding clouds as I go. I know I should have done that at the very beginning but like I said, I think backwards with watercolors...
then to finish the faces and add some more ribbons and the birds.... OK, I'm panicking!

Don't forget to check out paint party friday, fiber arts friday, creative friday, crafty friday and whimsical wednesday... Have a good weekend!

woyww

Another week has come around... time for WOYWW. Here's what's on our dining room table when my daughter and I are working on needlefelting... we have thebags of wool spread out, and my basket of sewing supplies for sewing eyes on whatever we create, we're working on tiny fairy lands, a snake, a bird and a cupcake.... hopefully will have finished photos to show by friday. You'll have to stop back to see what we accomplished.

Don't forget to checkout the other workdesks by clicking the link on my sidebar! Have a good rest of the week!

May baskets

I realize this may give the secret away if the person who received this may basket reads this post... but I'm pretty sure she'll guess the culprits anyway...
 My daughter and I were out delivering a May basket first thing this morning!
 I made my first attempt at a wet felted flower last night... it idin't work very well as I had clumped fiber not strands, so I ended up adding more fiber and needlefelting. It's a bit lumpy but not bad for a first attempt, and with a few real flowers from my yard, I think it made a pretty May basket. The basket itself is a rolled up recycled Wegan's flyer...

We sneakily drove over, parked around the corner from my Mom's house and snuck to the door... My daughter hung the basket, got a quick picture and knocked before we took off running, only slowed down a little by dropping a cell phone. I don't think we were caught, well, not by my mom at least, but a curious neighbor came out to check of we were burglars I believe. Fun!