OMG!

Technology is about to get the best of me but never fear I will win...so, so, so

I wanted to be able to journal once a week but my the weeks go by fast. But the last 2 weekends of April I have had to myself for the first time in months. I have worked in my studio, found things I had been looking for, knew I had but could not find when I wanted them, and now I am beginning to see the bottom of boxes and putting things together in open clear containers or clear drawers so that I can see them and get to them easier. WOW!!

I worked on a jewelry piece that I started at the Art Nest I attended in late Feb. I am ready to make my chain and give it to my daughter so that is one thing I feel good about. I will post a picture when it is finished. I have a ring I started but I think I had better start over on it, ha!

I also bought the cutest book of stickers and pictures of flower fairies this weekend (on sale, no doubt). It is a child's book of activities but I love children's books. There is the cutest puzzle and missing pieces that you have to cut out and place them where they belong that I am going to use for a mixed media piece (for myself of course). I thought about the inchy projects that I read about in one of the Somerset magazines that I thought if I cut all the puzzle apart and backed it with black paper the dividing lines would stand out. I don't know, just thinking out loud. If it works and I like it I will post a picture of it too. The little book gave me several ideas that I am going to try for some mixed media pieces.

I have also started a felting project. I bought a beautiful book of little felt projects from one of the Mother Birds of the Art Nest, Julie Collings so I am trying my hand at that too setting in the evenings watching TV with my husband. I'm one of those people that has to have something in my hands all the time. It has been so fun, as usual, just not enough colors of wool yarn so I will just have to buy more, right?

I moved my 9-5 job into my house and I hate it but I am not giving up my studio for an office again so I am moving my office OFF location so that I cannot even see the piles of paper I have anymore in my home. I hope that will give me even more time to create!! The only thing is I will have to leave my loving black lab at home and I will miss her being at my feet. Maybe I can sneek her in when the owners are not looking!

I hope all my art friends are doing wonderful and enjoying their spring weather. Texas is finally getting rain! Halleulah!! so the rainy weather has been refreshing and cool for us. Grass is turning green, bluebonnets are coming out so it really looks like spring. I need to take some pictures of the bluebonnets in the Hill Country for everyone. They look like a pond of water in a field from a distance. And the big cactus are blooming their great big yellow blooms! They are beautiful and a site to see on such a plant.

Well I need to say goodnite for now. I will write more as soon as I have some pictures of something finished to add to a post but I have enjoyed just setting and letting the words come out even if no one is listening.

Omz loves the world, even when sometimes it is not fair I know that it will turn things around again.