Commission finished

Today, I finished my commission of a beaded prayer pillow. It will hang on the wall so I'm waiting to hear back from the friend as to what kind of hanger she prefers but I thought I'd show you the finished project in the meantime. This heart only measures about 3 inches but oh my, the time it has taken to bead it!!! I've only done a couple of these before and I forgot how much time they take. I have huge respect for people that do this for their art all the time. I do love the look. And it is pretty relaxing but you can easily get sorta' "stuck" in one position when you sit too long doing it! I hope Jackie likes it!

Quiltlet #2

Answering questions

I had a couple of questions asked in my comments for my last post so I thought I'd answer them quickly.

First: Am I making a wall hanging series? Well of sorts, I guess I am. I hadn't thought of it like that but yes. I'm working on these and plan to make some to sell in my etsy shop.

Secondly: How will I mount them to the watercolor paper? Well, I'm not sure yet. DJ Pettitt sews things to the watercolor paper but I'm shocked that there's no problem sewing that weight of watercolor paper because it is like cardboard! I will most likely either glue or hand-stitch the little quiltlets to the watercolor base. Before add them together, I plan to tear the paper to just about 1/8 of an inch wider than the quiltlet and then add metallic silver to the deckled edge so it will barely peek out around the edge of the quiltlet sort of giving it a frame. I'm still deciding on a hanger.

I've spent some time adding a few things in my etsy store and I still have more things to add! I have so many supply type items and really want to get more art in it for sale. Work, work, work!

I'm also working on a commissioned beaded prayer pillow. It's about 1/3 done. I'll post it when complete.

Chuck and Sam have been in Cleveland for 3 weeks now. They are due home tomorrow evening. Truly it has gone by fast. I think it's been good for the boys to be apart for a while. I got some good time with Max and he seems to have matured so much in 3 weeks time. Sam has had a great time and I know his one-on-one time with Chuck is something that has great impact. Not to mention that since Sam is the shy one, he's spent 3 weeks running around meeting a lot of new people and spending time with them. It's been good for him. He's also been to amusement parks, water parks, swimming with friends, boating, fishing, riding bikes in the park, waterboarding, need I go on? This kid doesn't want to come home! LOL! Since Chuck's work can be mostly done by computer, have computer, will travel.... It's both a curse and a blessing. Since most of his work can be done on his laptop, he can work from anywhere which means long extended vacations. However, the curse is that you never REALLY have a vacation because you bring work with you. UGH! And it seems that problems always come up and then you are out of state and trying to deal with stuff over the phone. NOT fun. Oh well, Chuck will barely get back home into the swing of things when he will leave again on July 8th for his 50th birthday trip to Alaska, thanks to his dear friend, Dave. The photographer in me is seriously green with envy.

Well, gonna' run for now...

A little artwork

My cactus blossom book has inspired me to make some separate pieces of fiber art similar to my pages. I will be mounting these onto 300 lb. watercolor paper. Here's my first piece done today. I already made up several transfers, cut background fabric, and timtex to size so it's just a matter of the composition and sewing. And since I'd never actually put ALL my fabrics away from the book making session, most of my fabrics needed for this are out already! :)

Great thrift store find!

Look what I found at Goodwill for only $1.99! Now all my nice threads can be together and untangled from a drawer!

It's finished!!!

I have now finished my artwork from the weekend class with DJ and Deryn so here she is! I'm pleased with the piece. Now, to work out all the muscle problems from my shoulder so I can get back to doing more art again! The stress of the weekend on my neck and shoulder are in full flare now. I went to the chiropractor yesterday but it's clearly muscular. I"m trying to work it out, use my hot packs, etc... but it's pretty painful. But what a great class! I have several errands to run today and Max has swim lessons so I'd better get movin'...

still a work in progress

Well, I'm beat and will be heading to bed really early tonight. Today, we worked with the wire stuff in Deryn's class and I really enjoyed it. I still have to put text with Diamond glaze behind all the leaves but you can see how far I have gotten.