Princess Bubbles Creates

Okay, this piece really did need to be the full circle.  I was encouraged to finish it and I am glad that I did.  Well, it still needs to be quilted but the tedious part of stenciling is done.  I put on a good podcast and figured out a better way to stencil with the Gelatos so the time flew past. I am linking with http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.ca/

This week the prompt was the sea.  The quote I used is by  Anne Morrough Linburg from her book Gift from the Sea.   The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.   I love being near water.  It is so relaxing to me.   I completely enjoyed creating this page.  I am trying to look past the obvious problems with it and just accept it.

I am not sure where I am going with this.  I used metallic Gelatos to stencil this design and then got distracted.  My intention was to stencil this design two more times to make a full circle.  I am leaning towards doing that but I am concerned I won't remember which colors I used.  Plus, it was a bit tedious stenciling all those small openings.  Still, it would look better to have a full circle.  Then my next question is what will I do this?  I guess I could just quilt it or add beads or? I am linking with http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.ca/ http://www.quiltfabrication.com/ https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.ca/ http://www.supermomnocape.com

Stitch 100 is the  Drizzle stitch .  Love it!  I added a bead to the end of mine.  I think they look great.  Beads make everything better.  This is the last Take a Stitch Tuesday for the year but  Sharon B promises to start up again in the new year.  I am so grateful for all that Sharon does for the stitching community.  She is so talented and generous.

One who knows how to show and accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.  Sophocles I am linking with http://image-in-ing.blogspot.ca https://mersad-photography.blogspot.ca

It was time for a break this week.  All year I have been working on projects and finishing quilts for my trunk show.  I have completely enjoyed it.  However, I really need to create with abandon where the results just don't matter.  It is good for my soul to just unleash a creative mess. I came across a small box of fabric scraps that I have been saving for like ten years.  Time to use them up!  They were just too pretty to toss out so I started gluing them into an altered book.  The top one could possibly be a landscape and I was definitely going for a flower in the second one.  They are not great works of art but man did I have fun. I am linking with http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.ca/#

The journal prompt this week is nature.  This page was quite simple to create.  I used pages from an old hymnal for the background and some flowers I cut from a wallpaper sample book.  I love the old and vintage feel to this page.