Princess Bubbles Creates

 All the blue lines were hand-drawn.  I love that they are not perfect but you would have to spend some time looking at it to be able to see that.  Isn't that the idea of a mandala?  

LeeAnna  has asked what piece did you pick when you played monopoly? who did you play with, how long would the game go on? were you a buyer of property and put houses on them? who kept the bank? I didn't play Monopoly much.  I heard someone call it Monotony once and I fully agreed.  My boys asked me to buy that game at a thrift store and I only agreed if they promised to never ask me to play with them.  Thankfully, their wonderful Dad didn't mind playing with them.  I wasn't a horrible mother, I did play other games with them. I like getting gifts.  It is one of my love languages.  They don't have to be big, fancy gifts.  My granddaughter gave me a loot bag from her birthday party.  She had an extra and she told me since I am special to her she wanted me to have it.  That melted my heart!  I don't know if I will eat the candy sucker but I am definitely going to try the watercolours! I like sunshine and warm weather.  We are fin...

 No stitching to show again this week.  I am very caught up with mixed media, my journal and just playing.  The drawing on the right page was done with my left hand.  It was inspired by the photo on the left page.  It certainly doesn't look like the photo and that was not the point.  I have so much fun drawing with my non-dominant hand.  It is delightfully freeing.   This journal is almost finished.  I have a lovely collection of journals to choose from for my next journal.  I find myself dithering a bit about which one to choose.  I am leaning towards finishing an altered book that I started using as a journal too many years ago.  There are not a lot of pages left to fill in it.  That might be the right choice.

 I printed one of my kaleidoscopes on vellum but it didn't go through the printer properly.  It came out wrinkled on one edge.  I hate to waste so I cut out the usable part.  I can use this for the start of another mandala.  It could be an interesting starting point.

  So, I totally messed up the questions from  LeeAnna  this month.  Or maybe there wasn't one for today.  Whatever, I will wing it. I like butterflies, who doesn't?  They are flying flowers!  They often show up in my art.  Nature has so much beauty to appreciate!  Lately, I have thinking of people as butterflies who flit into my life to show me something, teach me something.  Some how it makes the hard things a bit easier. I like sunshine.  We have had so much rain lately and I know the farmers appreciate it as do I.  I am just longing for sunshine and warmth.  My body is craving some Vitamin D from the sun! I like clearing out things that I will no longer use.  It feels so good.  More so when I can share those items with someone directly.  I have a box of children's books to give to my niece who is a teacher.  She told me she would appreciate them very much as she had loaned a bunch of hers and that pe...

 I used to link up with a stitching blog for Work in Progress Wednesday.  I guess that is why I feel that my Wednesday post should always be about stitching.  But I don't always have stitching progress to blog about on Wednesdays.  There are times when I am spending my time with mixed media and my art journals. This week, I have been playing around with drawing with my left hand.  These drawings were done with a marker and then I added water to them to make the marker bleed.  I love them.  I suppose that is because my expectations are very low when drawing with my nondominant hand.  Still, you can tell what these drawings represent.  Or at least I can.   I love their imperfection.  Today I was thinking about perfection.  I have known from a very young age that I am incapable of perfection.  What a lovely and freeing way of being!  I never let the fear of something not being perfect stop me.  Now, for sure, I...