Princess Bubbles Creates

My art bra is really coming along.  I am quite please with it so far.  There is still a fair amount to do.  You can see some of the seam binding and lace that I colored.  This whole project really has me excited so now I am thinking I will create two bras if not more! I am linking with http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.ca/ and http://pintangle.com/

I love starting new projects.  I am also getting pretty good at finishing projects, it wasn't always that way.  I have wanted to do an art bra project for a few years.  I finally got around to bringing it up at the guild meeting of the Grand Guild of Fibre Artists  http://grandguild.ca/    I am delighted to say that everyone was very excited about it.  We will be creating our art bras over the next year and mounting an exhibit of them at The Button Factory in Waterloo October 2014. I spent the weekend dyeing rayon seam binding, lace and ribbon to use on my art bra.  I used my Inktense blocks as they are so quick and easy.  I am excited to get stitching with them!

It felt good to get out my Nikon and macro lens again.  It has been a while since I played with them.  I think these are fairly successful images and definitely want to explore this a bit more.

I found some doilies at the thrift store yesterday.  I decided to color one of them with my Dr. Martins watercolors that I bought a while back.  I don't think they are permanent but I don't plan to wash the doily so I won't worry about it.  I got the  doily nice and wet before I dropped the color onto it.  I wanted the colors to flow.  Since it was so wet I thought it would take forever to dry so I decided to blot it with some paper.  The light bulb went off, this makes a cool print!  Well, the first few didn't as the doily was so wet but the last five or six worked great.  I now have a stack of prints that I can use in a journal or whatever.  I might try over printing them with my gelli plate too.

I think this block is finished.  I removed a button that was too large and added a couple of small ones.  I added more stitching and beading.  The beads are swarovski crystals but they are not really shining in this photo.  I know there are some naked seams but I think it works better that way.  I am linking with  http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.ca/

I have a new job.  I am a back stage receptionist at the Centre in the Square.  Basically they need a warm body that smiles nicely when someone comes into the office.  There is a bit more to it than that but not a lot.  I have many hours of sitting there with not a lot to do.  I am now bringing in my sketch book so that I can doodle my time away.  Iwould really like to bring my stitching but I feel like that would be pushing it.

My piece Metamorphosis, pictured above, is in the Stories show at the Unity Church.  The show opens tonight and will be on display until I don't know when.  I just checked their web site and can't find that information.  It is likely up for at least a month.