Didn't feel like decorating for Christmas today

Just wanted to work on these instead....








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This week....

My latest piece....FLY! A mini art quilt ornament.... 

Textile pieces

My new mixed media quilted ornaments.

I need a better name for these things, but I can't seem to come up with anything.

But I am having fun making them! After i made the fabric mini books and lucky penny dolls that i posted last week, i wanted to do more sewing projects so these came about. They are little art quilts i guess. I messily machine quilted a few scraps then used those to paint and embroider onto. More in the works for brooches and pendants and more ornaments.....

They should be in my etsy shop soon, i hope. I have a new mac now so i should be able to get photos fixed and posted easier.....

Happy PPF!

Birds

This week i switched from monsters to birds. I bought these little plaques weeks or months ago thinking i would carve them into a relief of a bird or a child. That didn't work so well, the wrong type of wood i am told. 

So i painted birds instead.

Then they didn't look complete without pattern behind them.

They still don't look "completely" complete to me so i am planning to glue down a small patch of some sweet tiny print fabric to just a small spot along the frame where it is now painted black. 

Happy PPF!

2 Works in progress...

Not much to show except a fee tiny glimpses of two large canvases i have recently started, much bigger than i normally do and i am trying avoid falling ladies or mandalas in these. But i AM trying to put in pieces of things i love, just glimpses.....

more birds..........

Actually I started these birds months ago, and now finished them all at the same time. I saw all because i mean last weeks cardinal and a cedar wax wing that I don't seem to have a photo of yet to show you, along with the two this week...
So i made 4 all together with the circles or hearts behind them...
maybe I will make up a postcard set of them...
and after that I painted a fantasy bird that I finished a week or so ago as well, and I may have a video of making him that i could put together if i get around to it... but that's another week....

 

birds on my mind

Definately been thinking birds lately

carving birds

photographing birds

painting birds

here's a few, lots more to come in the next week...

a carved bird

I showed you this little carved bird last week... my first attempt at carving. 

Well here he is in his progress to completeness... 

a little woodburning.... 

a little watercolor.... 

covered by white acrylic 

and then some of that rubbed off... 

Introducing...

Blakely

Sitting with his buddies

well... his buddies are still hidden in their blocks waiting to be created.

Happy paint party friday!