Princess Bubbles Creates

 Here is another little mandala I have made in my handmade book.  It is sparkly and I hope it speaks joy to you! For my own edification here are some comments I received about my solo show. Dear Angela, thank you for all your work installing the mandalas on Friday! I walked into ThirdSpace this morning and my whole body lit up! The theme of the advent service today was JOY, and boy did the walls ever speak to us! What a gift! I know we had a Joy exhibit in early 2020, but this exhibit is a joyous second rendition! Love the many forms Joy has taken here, thank you Angela,,,this will bring beautiful feelings to all of us for many weeks! Bev My feelings exactly! I had to pick up something at Luther this morning and took a detour via the chapel because I couldn’t wait until tomorrow. The exhibit made my heart sing! And the installation.   Thank you so much!   I look forward to being with it more in the days ahead and to the engagement of many over the coming weeks. ...

  This is my piece for the Bright Challenge with San Fransisco School of Needlework.  I often participate in their challenges and enjoy them.  The theme of bright is definitely in my wheelhouse.  The under water theme works well with brights.  I am enjoying using some of my hand dyed threads on this project.  I have stitched under water themes a number of times and never tire of it.  There are always new ideas and the textures created can so interesting.   I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/

 Well, that was a lot of work!  For three hours I worked away with my husband and two others at hanging my solo show.  My husband is so amazing and supportive.  I couldn't have done it without him.  He thinks differently than I do and that is a good thing.  We bring balance to one another.  I created 400 paper mandalas for this show.  They are hanging at the 10-foot mark and the installation looks pretty impressive.   There were a lot of nice comments from the few people that stopped in to see us hanging the show.  One of the professors was very keenly interested and chatted for a while.  I have been invited to give a talk there but the details still need to be worked out.   There are over 60 stitched mandalas hanging in this show.  Also, three collaborative pieces are hanging.  I will have to return to get more photos.  We ran out of time as my husband had an engagement he needed to get to.  ...

LeeAnna  asks what is your favorite Christmas/ Hanuka cookie or treat....if you could go to a party which cookie would you reach for first? Do you make them or purchase them... I rarely eat cookies but I do love shortbread cookies.  I am not much of a baker so nope, I don't make them.  I also don't buy them because I just might eat them all and that would not be good!  So they are a very rare treat.  It has probably been a few years since I have had any.  It isn't like I don't get loads of other goodies at Christmas though.  Usually, I go more for the savoury types. I Like photography, macro photography to be specific.  I was looking for a photo in my files and came across this one.  Do you see the heart?  Isn't nature amazing! I didn't find the photo that I was specifically looking for but glad that this one came to me.   I also Like that tomorrow is the big day.  I will be installing my solo show!  It is pretty exci...

 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.