Princess Bubbles Creates

 I have started working on my word of the month journal page for December.  Yay for me!  I stuck to this challenge for the whole year.  This page is a bit busy so the word is a little hard to see.  In the upper left, I have started the word harmony.  I am using Sadi which is used in gold work.  I have had this stuff for quite and while and never tried it.  I find it rather difficult.  It is so very fragile, unexpectedly so.  I am okay with the imperfection.  This is the first try after all.  I always learn from my experimentation and that is a good thing.  I am willing to try new things and post about them.  Some people are not willing to be that vulnerable but I am.  I hope it makes me more relatable!  I hope it helps to make others brave!

 I have worked on this journal for a number of years on and off.  I think it is done and then I get another idea for it.  I have so many beautiful papers, stickers, quotes and poems in it.  I absolutely love the lace I added to the side of this page.  I think it works quite well. Winter can be so dreary, bleak and miserable.  It is good to have a project like this one that helps me see the beauty of snow.  It is good to have art and creativity and not be afraid to use them.  I think we all make this world just a bit better when we have the courage to create. I am linking to https://art-journal-journey.blogspot.com/

I have started a small mandala series.  I have them in a small handmade book I created a while ago.  It feels good to finally be using said book.  Yesterday was the perfect day to just play with layering paper shapes to create mandalas.  It was meditative as always.  It was a pretty simple process and about all, I could handle.  The little book will be full in no time.    

 I have been busy adding nature-themed motifs to my whole cloth crazy quilt.  I went digging through my stencil collection to help me get the images right.  This project has been a slow process.  Isn't it lovely to be relaxed about a project?  There is no need to rush it. I had some dental surgery on Friday and was instructed to take it easy over the weekend.  I do believe I have enough energy to work on this lovely project though.  If you look closely you can see the outline of a dragonfly in the upper right corner.  I am pretty keen to get started on that.  It might be better to leave that one until I feel tiptop.  I am linking to   https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/

do you or your family have a favorite holiday movie or show to watch? What about when you were little? Is there some show or movie you feel sets the mood or makes you go AWE? Is there a new show on you plan to watch and we shouldn't miss? I have a list of holiday movies that I love to watch. White Christmas  The costumes and music are great. The Bishop's Wife  Cary Grant is absolutely charming in this. The Christmas Story I never used to get this movie until I had three sons but now I love it.  The school they go to looks like one in our neighbourhood. Christmas Vacation  Always good for a giggle even though I am not a big fan of Chevy Chase It's a Wonderful Life  Sometimes this one is a bit too sad to watch. We also love to watch: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas A Charlie Brown Christmas I am excited to watch the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special which just came out.  That should be fun.   So many good holiday movies to watch!  Great ...

 Just in the knick of time, I finished my word a month journal page.  I left it rather late.  Using transfer foil to write the word was quick and easy.  I would have preferred to be more creative with the lettering but it is good enough.  One more page to go and then I will have to consider how to bind all the pages into a book form.  That will be another interesting challenge.

 My solo show of mandalas is less than two weeks away.  There is not a lot left for me to do and that feels good.  I can play with my mixed-media mandalas just for fun.  Not that all the other mandalas I have created weren't fun.  That's for sure.  I never dreamed that I would create as many mandalas as I have.  Nor did I think it would result in a solo show when I started on this path.  It is interesting how one thing leads to another. Staying focused on one subject for so long is not generally how I work.  It is remarkable that my multitude of ideas can fit/work with mandalas. I was asked what I will do with all these mandalas after the show.  Would I sell them?  I honestly have no idea.  I am not sure why anyone would want to buy one.  For sure some of them are truly beautiful but they would need to be framed and I am not interested in doing that.  But what else to do with them?  They can be stored until the r...