Princess Bubbles Creates

This journal has a sweet old fashioned feel to it.  Most often I go for vibrant colour in my work.  Every so often though I feel the need to work with the soft and romantic.  This journal is full of lace and doilies, old handkerchiefs and ribbons.  It feels like such a lovely place for my found poetry to land. 

I have a nice start on my bead journal project for February.  This old doily I hand dyed.  An old doily makes a lovely base for a mandala.  I have been doing my bead journals in a circle form for quite a while now, on and off.  I have quite a collection of them.  I am hoping to create enough of them to have a solo show somewhere, sometime.  I honestly can't see myself tiring of working with a circle. I am linking to https://www.quiltfabrication.com/ http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com/ http://www.esthersquiltblog.com/

My installation 'Paint My World' is up at TheMuseum.  This has been a major undertaking for me and I feel really positive about it.  My confidence as an artist has grown significantly.  The responses have been affirming.  On the opening night, a patron gasped 'oh! wow!' when she saw it.  That made me feel really good.  I am really excited to do more installation work.  I am researching two submissions right now. 

I absolutely love my kaleidoscope photos.  They are fun for me to create and I think they are beautiful.  I am over the moon that I got to create a video installation with my photos and my son's original music.  I am hoping that I can figure a way to post the video eventually. I am linking to http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com https://mersad-photography.blogspot.com

I love the colours in this block.  Most of these fabrics are hand dyed by myself.  Most of them are silk.  What a pleasure to stitch through silk!  Also, a lot of the threads and ribbons are hand dyed by myself.  It gives me a real sense of satisfaction to have used my lovely unique materials. I am linking to http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/ I enjoyed her article about strong women.

My journal page is done on an old bookkeeping journal page.  Kind of fun.  Feels a bit full circle.  I studied accounting at university.  My dad was a bookkeeper. 

This piece I started as part of my guild challenge.  I lost interest in it for that challenge and ended doing something else.  I resurrected it for my January bead journal project.  I needed a beading project that wasn't overly time consuming.  I am happy that I was able to get it finished before the month ended.  It is definitely different from my usual beading.  It was interesting to introduce cellophane and make it more mixed media.  I am linking to https://www.quiltfabrication.com/ http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com/ http://www.esthersquiltblog.com/