Princess Bubbles Creates

I am bit late posting this but better late than never.  The running stitch is new to me.  Such a simple stitch you would think I would have used it prior to this.  Sharon B's samples at http://www.pintangle.com/journal/2012/3/6/take-a-stitch-tuesday-week-10.html#comments are stunning.  The top picture is shows the running stitch done with wool.  The bottom picture shows that I wove some interesting knitting yarns through those stitches.  It is not quite finished but it won't take long to complete.

A couple of weeks ago I picked up a bag of ric rac at the thrift store.  Not all the colors were to my taste so yesterday I experimented with 'dyeing' them.  The top picture I used Inktense blocks.  I wet the ric rac and applied the block directly to the ric rac.  I got nice intense color on the top.  The color did not bleed through completely to the other side so you can see it is much lighter.  Inktense does not change the hand of the ric rac at all.  I love that! The other thing I used to experiment is Dr. Ph Martin's Bombay India Ink.  Again, I wet the ric rac and then dropped in color with the ink dropper.  Lovely intense color but this ink did change the hand of the ric rac.  It made it a bit stiff.  Not really a big deal to me.  I love two for one so I took prints of the ric rac while it was still wet.  I think the paper could make an interesting background for a journal page.

I am not sure if I would use the silk screen process as I don't have any.  I can think of other ways to do this though.  So cool.

http://www.county.wellington.on.ca/document_info.aspx?id=7268 Here is a link to the Museum workshops that are happening this summer.  I am very excited to be teaching there this summer!  It looks like there are some really interesting workshops so it is worth taking a look.

When I joined the bead journal project a couple of years ago it was because I wanted to bead like Robin.  She is so talented.  I quickly realized that I wasn't likely to ever bead/stitch like that.  I felt inadequate and made apologies for that.  This year I decided that I would not feel badly about the way that I do things.  I would take this project and do my own thing and feel good about it.  It has freed me up to think about beads in a different way.  So this month my 'beads' are clock gears and watch face.  Of course I had to include some regular beads as well! The top photo is the whole piece.  Unfortunately I could not get the color right.  The bottom picture is a close up of the beading.  The color in the image is closer to correct.

I am excited to work on this photo for the March bead journal project.  To recap, I ordered some calendars last year.  They featured my rust photos.  I was extremely disappointed with calendars and didn't feel that I could give them as gifts as I had intended.  The printer did not do a good job with the color.  So I decided to make lemonade with my lemons.  I really do hate to waste!  I figured I could bead onto these photos and I am pleased with the results so far.  For March I am using the photo/calendar page above.  I am using beads and something a little different.  Hopefully I will be able to post the finished project tomorrow.

I am working away at using up the paper scraps I bought on the weekend.  On this journal page I used up a few.  I just need to find a quote to letter in the blank spaces.  Or maybe I could do some zentangles in those spaces.  hmm