Princess Bubbles Creates

Check out the beautiful pen that my wonderful son bought me for my birthday.  Isn't it great!  I\m sure you know anything that sparkles makes me happy.   I don't know what they have done to blogger and I don't know how to work it now!!!!  It's really ticking me off.  Hopefully I will figure this out sooner rather than later. 

Who knew!!!  I found this cool stuff called dubbing in the fly tying department.  I thought it looked suspiciously like angelina fibres.  I figured I would buy it and find out if it works like angelina.  I thought if it doesn't work I can use it in needle felting.  Well, sure enough with a hot iron this stuff works just like angelina fibres.  Of course, it being a product that men purchase it is half the price of angelina fibres.  Big surprise. The blue pictured above has lost it's sparkle as I ironed it a bit too long.  You do have to be careful.

It's my birthday and I thought I would write a post for me, just me.  Read on if you like but I will probably sound very egotistical in this post.  I just want to celebrate some of the things that I am and have done right in this life.  I am an accomplished artist.  I have been published in a book and a magazine.  I have had my work accepted in a national show.  I a creative and clever. I am a  loving wife, dutiful daughter, good sister and dedicated mother.  I have three fantastic sons to prove that I am a good mother!! I am a fun and experienced teacher. I am a woman that loves to luxuriate in an extremely frothy bubble bath.  There is royalty in my family tree.  Does that explain my blog name!  I think so. I am a loyal friend. I am a strong and healthy woman. I am a blissfully simple and somewhat shallow woman.  There are many things that I just don't care to know anything about. I have run a small business for 18 ye...

Even when a day is so busy that you think you don't have time for art you somehow you can find a few minutes.  I am so grateful that I have a good camera to use.  We had a good down pour of rain today and the sky is still rather grey.  I have been meaning to get some photos of the iris blooming in my garden so the overcast day was perfect for that.  I like the rain drops on the flower.  This could make a very interesting kaleidoscope.

This bead journal project is very enjoyable.  I was concerned that I would not be able to keep up with it.  I am finding that I am very keen on getting each month finished though.  I had June finished at least a week ago!  I will start on July soon.  There is a fair amount of beading on this but you do have to look closely to see it as I was working monotones.  I looked forever to find the shell slices.  Aren't they great?

I have an addiction to pens.  I admit it.  I would guess I'm not the only one in this group that can admit to that.  I know I'm not the only one in my family who has a 'thing' for pens. On returning home from work one day I found red ink paw prints all over my living room floor!  What the heck?  On closer inspection I found bits and pieces of my Pilot Parallel pen.  Drag.  Trinity (our female golden retriever) had left a trail of destruction.  Plastic bits and inky paw prints  throughout my home.  I knew it was Trinity because she had ink stains on her fur.  Farley, the perfect golden retriever had no tell tale signs.  Oh well, I guess it means a trip to Gwartzmann's as they have the best price for these pens.  I'm always up for a trip to an art store.  I couldn't be too mad at the dog.  The pen could be replaced and was. Skip ahead a couple of months.  This time there's mysterious black marks on my floo...

I never tire of them!  I think they are so beautiful.  It amazes me that one image can produce so many different kaleidoscopes!