Princess Bubbles Creates

 I have never thought of myself as a painter but I do use paint regularly.  Mostly for mandalas or in my art journal.  I guess I use to paint a fair amount in my stitching as well.  Anyways, I am not afraid to splatter some paint around and rather enjoy it.  Yesterday I painted the window of a local ice cream shop.  The photo isn't the best.  It is kind of hard to make out Frosty's black hat.  It was fun to do even though it is hard to get an even coat of paint on glass. 

 I started this piece in an online workshop a number of years.  Ugh or should I say ugly.  No workshop is ever a waste as I always learn something.  I rarely produce a worthwhile piece in a workshop though. I was going through my stash of unfinished things and came across it.  I wondered if I could do anything with it.  I certainly couldn't make it worse!  I decided to add paint and glitter.  I like it so much better now.   I will continue adding to it.  Possibly some more hand stitching.  I doubt it will ever be something I will want to hang on my wall but it isn't very large so I could cut it down and make it into a journal cover.  Or I could turn it into a page for my large fabric journal.  We will see.   I am linking to https://www.quiltfabrication.com/ https://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com/

 The San Fransisco School of Needlework and Design has its Choices Challenge gallery set up.  Check out the lovely work.   Choices Challenge   I was delighted to see my piece featured in their newsletter that I received yesterday.  It is always a thrill when someone likes my work well enough to feature it!  Especially since I struggled with this piece and never got it to look exactly the way I wanted it to look.  That doesn't make it a bad piece though, right!

There actually isn't any stitching on this piece yet.  I started this piece in 2019 and it has been hanging in my studio ever since.  This week I added some silver flakes to the sky.  I think I want to add glitter next.  I have been on a big glitter kick this week.  I have been adding it to my art journals and mandalas.  Oh so fun!  I guess I have a strong need for something joyful and sparkling right now.   I also want to add some hand stitching to this piece.  It probably doesn't need a lot though.  Mostly I just want to get the sky looking better.  This piece is made with different rovings and mixed media in the silk paper technique.  It is quite large, for me.  It has been a fun experiment and may end up as a page in a large book.   I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/

This was a step in the right direction.  My little girl character is painted on fabric.  I plan to applique a sleeve and hand.  I want to add some lace and embroidery to the dress.  It is definitely coming along. I am linking to http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

I am feeling the need to work on a stitched mandala as it has been a while.  I went digging through some past experiments and came across the ugly blob, top photo.  It was an experiment with transfer foil and it did not work out very well.  Rescue and redemption often inform my work so I was happy to see what I could do with this.  I have added a layer of iridescent paint and that worked really well.  If you look closely you can still see a bit of the transfer foil showing through.  I love that and now I am happy to get stitching on this.   I am linking to https://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com/ https://www.quiltfabrication.com/  

 It has been a while since I posted about this piece.  I have added some stitches to it but not a lot.  I would love to include this one in my book.  It may or may not work.  I have to admit that my stitching mojo has been rather lacking this past week.  I am still making art.  Mostly meditative mandalas.  Also got a couple of submissions sent off.  Maybe, I just needed a bit of break from stitching.  I will get back at it this week in all likelihood.   I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/