Princess Bubbles Creates

I absolutely love my kaleidoscope photos.  They are fun for me to create and I think they are beautiful.  I am over the moon that I got to create a video installation with my photos and my son's original music.  I am hoping that I can figure a way to post the video eventually. I am linking to http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com https://mersad-photography.blogspot.com

I love the colours in this block.  Most of these fabrics are hand dyed by myself.  Most of them are silk.  What a pleasure to stitch through silk!  Also, a lot of the threads and ribbons are hand dyed by myself.  It gives me a real sense of satisfaction to have used my lovely unique materials. I am linking to http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/ I enjoyed her article about strong women.

My journal page is done on an old bookkeeping journal page.  Kind of fun.  Feels a bit full circle.  I studied accounting at university.  My dad was a bookkeeper. 

This piece I started as part of my guild challenge.  I lost interest in it for that challenge and ended doing something else.  I resurrected it for my January bead journal project.  I needed a beading project that wasn't overly time consuming.  I am happy that I was able to get it finished before the month ended.  It is definitely different from my usual beading.  It was interesting to introduce cellophane and make it more mixed media.  I am linking to https://www.quiltfabrication.com/ http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com/ http://www.esthersquiltblog.com/

It feels very good to be back into my regular routine.  Am I getting old?  I never used to love routines.  I guess I still don't love routines.  I love the time to explore and create as I choose.  My two installations are finished and the opening is tonight.  I am ever so pleased with the installations and myself!  This has been challenging for me and I definitely rose to the challenge.  I am excited to pursue more such challenges!  I am also excited to have a bit of downtime to pursue my regular stitching and journals.  Today I learned a new term, a commonplace book.  Turns out this has what I have been doing for years.  I thought I was a bit of a failed journaler but I am not alone. FromWikipedia   Commonplace books are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and ...

I was thinking of doing a beaded motif on this CQ block but the end of the month is not far away.  I think the beading would take more time than I have.  I have placed this butterfly on the block and I am debating using it.  I think I like it and will stitch it down.  Of course, I will still add some beads, just not a whole motif.  Not much progress has been made on this block.  Two installations and a sunny holiday have messed with time for stitching. I am linking to https://www.quiltfabrication.com/ http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com/ http://www.esthersquiltblog.com/

It is nice to have the time to blog again.  January has been pretty full.  I just returned from the Bahamas.  I took along my Nikon but barely used it.  These gorgeous flowers I shot with my phone.  It is a new phone and I haven't used it for photos very much.  I am happy with the results.  Obviously, it would have been better with my Nikon and macro lens. I am linking to http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/ https://mersad-photography.blogspot.com