Princess Bubbles Creates

Sometimes I wonder if have ADD.  There are times when I find it difficult to stay with one topic.  Really though I just have a lot of ideas.  So I have moved onto my third idea for my bead journal project.  I think most people pick one theme and stick with it for the year.  I just can't do that this year. Here is my water idea.  I have needle felted, stitched and beaded this piece. I also trapped some Japanese paper under some tulle that is held in place by needle felting.  I thought that was a clever idea.   It will be a 'page' in my book.  I hope that I can stick with this idea for the rest of the year.  I do have four more page bases to use so I should be good.

Here are a few more pages.

I had showed this book I made to my sister when she was here visiting in the spring.  She was asking me a few questions about it today and I realized that I had not taken any pictures of it and therefore I had not posted on my blog about it.  So this book is a collection of calligraphy related pieces.  Most of them are from swaps.  Being a member of the Royal City Calligraphy Guild it has it perks.  The swaps are really awesome.  It is so cool to receive pieces of art from other members.  The problem is what to do with them.  Well, I made this book in the Remains of the Day style and it now houses all my swap pieces.   A great solution I think.  I have a few more pictures of it and will post them tomorrow.

I have collaged some paper to this painting now.  I am not really impressed with it but at least I did not ruin it.  I believe that I just need to add more paper and paint.  I used Japanese paper in some places and plain tissue in others.  I am thinking about cutting up old book pages into letter shapes and adding a word or two.  I will paint over it so that it won't be immediately obvious. 

This is the first time I have worked on a wood panel 'canvas'.  I am enjoying it but I wish I would have put gesso on it first.  The wood grain shows through a bit and I don't really care for that.  I suppose I am the only one that would notice that though.  The first photo shows the application of modeling paste.  I wasn't super keen on the way it was turning out but when a friend walked by and commented that it looked like beads I changed my mind.  After all anything that looks like beads has to be good. The second photo shows the next stage.  This has many washes of color.  I was tempted to stop at this point as I like it so much.  There are two more workshops after this though.  Yesterday was one of them where we added mixed media collage.  I chose to let go of any fear that I would ruin it.  Stay tuned for what I did.

This is the second flowerpot formation that we saw.  They are just so cool!

Last week I had the opportunity to travel with my sister in law, Ellen and her daughter Amanda.  We went to Tobermory to take photos of lighthouses.  We also went to the Flower Pot island.  I have wanted to see these rock formations for many years.  The weather was absolutely wonderful and the company was fantastic.  I couldn't have asked for a better time.