Oh dear!

What WAS I thinking?

I mean, who in their right mind paints their back steps lilac and baby blue?

Ugh!

This really isn't what I had in mind and boy howdy, does it clash with my brightly colored studio door!

Oh well, I'm going to play around and add some bold splashes of color to spice things up!

I 'm also adhering some brightly colored stones my five year old painted for me to the outer left edges of each step. I'm thinking these changes will really liven up the look!

What do you think?

I'm pretty nutty aren't I?

Oh well, here's a side view for you all, just so you can get the full baby pastel effect I've got going on over here!



Aren't these just the most dang blasted beautiful steps you've ever seen?

The Studio

Yes, the studio is a mess right now; but trust me, it looks better than it has in nearly a year.

As some of you may remember, our studio was burgled last Spring. The computer was stolen, along with many, many other items. It has taken me all this time to begin sorting and cleaning through the mess.

Oh, I did a general cleaning and inventory to assess our losses after the break in, but I didn't have the heart to actually sort and to reorganize everything.

Believe it or not, I'm very nearly finished!

Here are some other photos. It's a nice little studio. It will feel good to have it in order once again.



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Wings!

Mixed media canvas panel~j.N-L

Well, last week's theme for the Creative Play Day Challenge was "wings".

I decided to get a littly funky and made a bouquet of dragonflies surrounded by sequin flowers and painted vines!

I created this piece on a 5 x 7 inch canvas board. The first thing that I did was to apply a wash of turquoise and yellow Lumiere paint to the gesso'd board. Then I drew and outlined the dragonflies.

You may have noticed that each dragonfly is the same. I hand drew the first dragon, and then traced that same image onto the board three times over.

The dragonflies are painted with Lumiere and acrylic paints.

Next I glued some flower sequins to the panel using heavy duty gel medium. Swarovski crystals were adhered in the flowers centers. I painted the vines using acrylic paint and then adhered more flower sequins. I place teeny, tiny vintage yellow beads in the centers of the small flowers. You can fit about 24 of these little hummers per inch. That's pretty darn tiny, right?

Anyhow, the smaller blue flowers across the top are 3 mm glass flower beads. They also have the yellow teenies in their centers.

The quote in the bottom right corner reads, "Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky."

This quote was printed on a piece of yellow tissue paper using our trusty ole inkjet printer. I collaged the quote onto the canvas board using gel medium.

The entire surface of this piece has been sealed with gel medium as well.

Voila! A bouquet of dragonflies...a veritable bevy of winged acrobats!

Mine! All mine!

meesh bead

Some days my friends bless my life more than I deserve.

Today was just such a day!

Early this morning I met up with my gal pal Michele. We had coffee at the Blue Pepper and we talked and laughed our way through the morning.

Michele is an extraordinary lampworker. She does things with a torch and glass rods that I can only dream about doing.

Anyway, she gifted me with two new cd's and the pendant pictured above!

OMG!

This pendant is huge! I mean, it's a truly substantial hunk of glass; and man, oh man, it's waaay prettier than the picture could ever show!

Suffice it to say, I feel as though I have won the lottery today! Two new cd's, a beautiful new bauble to wear, and some quality time with a dear friend!

Yesssiree!

Life is good!

Adoration

H2O kitty~j. N-L

The theme for this week's creative play day is "animals".

I really wanted to create something "frame worthy".....

I painted this instead.

I'm not happy with the way it turned out and I may try another, or maybe not.

Anyhow, there isn't anything special happening here...just a little 140 lb watercolor paper and my five year old's watercolors!

I do like one thing however. I like this watercolor kitty's title: "Adoration".

That's a title that fits!