Re:

Goodness sakes!  All this fun I am having is starting to get a bit out of hand.  What a crazy month! But honestly, it isn't this month it is this life!  So if I want to continue to do it all:

RE: evaluate-
I need to go back to those words for the year- focus, find, fine tune, finish...  What exactly do I want to do?
Well,  I want to make things using fabric.  I want to journal.  I want to make art.

RE: Fabric-
 I like to support The Needle and Thread Network.  It motivates me to have something related to my first luv, fabric, on my worktable for Wednesdays.  I hadn't really planned to do a wall hanging a month but again, the focus and the making of something for my home quite fits in with my overall goals.  This month is a challenge time wise and I'll be happy just to get a top done.  Twelve focused projects just resonates with me!  I do better with a theme.   I am a tad exuberant so I try to not to stick my hand up for every quilt a long.  I have a few smaller commitments but I need to be focusing on fine tuning my skills not fiddling with those fun projects.  :O  I think the fabric part is good, I just need to rein myself in a wee bit!

Re:  Journal
I do like the Document Your Life Project (DYLP).  I need to fine tune my method. As I try to deal with all my stuff (clutter)  that overwhelms this designated workspace area I could combine my out of control lists, and bright ideas into this journal.  I swear, one extra big creative spark and everything will go poof! 
I  signed up for Sketchbook Skool, a six week course,  knowing this would be a crazy month.  So I am way behind on the practical although I have read all the theory  which, the truth be known, is my problem.  Just do it, don't study it!  sheesh  But I have made journals, used journals, and worked in journals.  This isn't too bad and again I can pull in the parameters a bit and get the daily practice more consistent. 

RE: Art
Which leads me to art and the whole mixed media realm!  It fascinates me and I so badly want to create stuff.  It is also the area that I need to get a grip on.  I am a technique junkie.  I never saw an art supply I didn't need to replenish or investigate!  My clothes budget has been hijacked!!!  I keep telling myself to take the free tutorials!  vbsigh   I am committed to a project this month involving Lutradur and the ...and then we set it on fire blog... .   It has been a bit time consuming but I am liking it and I'm thinking I may need a designated 'art' day for the blog so I can stay focused and actually produce something. The memory box will take several more weeks and then I should think of another series.

My finishes for the week are quite motivating as well.  awk!  Just finish something!!!!

So I need to do some readjusting, some reorganizing, some redeeming (time), some readjusting, some re... Well, you get the idea.  I could do mixed media Mondays, fabric mid week and finish up with journal projects.   That leaves two days to procrastinate.  Another REally big problem!  

Okay, time to RE turn to regular scheduled programming!  ;^)

and a child shall lead them

I was watching a watercolour tutorial and my grandson asked if that was art!  I said yes and he said, "Let's do it!".

I did the part where liquid was used and I really liked it.  It drys permanent and it sprays wonderfully.  We tried several things and sometimes he was more successful than I!

He sprayed on a stencil on some scrap paper and I captured the stencil print on extra watercolour paper.

I found the colours to be very vibrant even when diluted. We used the same stencil but moved it over a wee bit for the second colour and that was enlightening. ;)

While everything was drying we turned to making stamps and using acrylics.  He made a LOT of confetti with my cutter but we did get a house built into the existing landscape.

A left handed boy and zig zag scissors was a challenge so we switched to regular scissors. The little bits of leftover zigs and zags turned out to be fantastic for adding leaves to the main canopy!

Yes, Josh.  It is ART!

Somethings gotta give

Too Much FUN!

Life is very good.  I'm thinking I need more hours in the day to do all I want to do. 
Friday the 13th has no  ill effects here.  Each day is a good day!

I'm up when the Rooster crows and I'm reluctant to turn in when he stands in the playroom door flapping his feathers at the clock! lol

Making marks is so much fun I'm having a hard time to settle down to sewing!

I did resolve the colours on the wedding quilt.  I'm thinking I like the lighter fabric better than the mauve so that was good that I didn't just rush to sew things.

I'm working on design principles in my techniques and trials journal. 

Then I get to play in my leaf themed journal.

The daily calender square is a delight.  I'm borrowing some ideas and experimenting with my own.

But now the reality is that I'm having an invasion of the dust bunnies.  I need to tell them that Easter was last weekend!  I'm also hoping that the vacuum is the only thing I need to drive today as I've been out just about everyday this week.  Wait until I tell the Rooster that making art saves on the gas bill!!! 

shhh, going to the city for supplies doesn't count.  ;^)

wow Art, is that you?

 Blogging brings many beneficial things into my life and unto my work table.  I began following 3 Creative Studios a couple of years ago and I've learned lots and actually have some finished projects to show for it.  That is always the making of a snoopy dance.  :)  But nothing stays static and this opportunity is drawing to a close.  The final challenge is due for the 16th.

I had thought to do something to incorporate much of what I've learned but I think I'll stick to KISS and use a lighter touch.

The digital stuff intrigues me and I want to explore that more.  I bought a book, Digital Expressions by Susan Tuttle and I'm ready to shop for Photoshop.  I printed this out but it is too predictable.

So I cut it up and scanned and printed it out unto some of my hand dyed fabric.  hmm, I'm not sure why it printed blue/green but I am low on ink.  I shall be reading my new book with a pencil, paper and a highlighter!   lol

I stamped some more,  I carved a stamp and I rubbed a paint stick over a portion.

I had ordered some new thread, went searching for some of the goodies I've been saving and I'm asking Art to rise from the work surface.  lol

He is not a genie, is he?  I need to put together the things I've learned, the inspiration I've found and set aside time to experiment.

Which brings me to The Needle and Thread Network.   Every Wednesday Canadians are invited to show what is on their worktable through the blog set up by Monika.  I'm enjoying all the inspiration.  I'm appreciating  the discipline that this brings as I keep the Wednesday commitment.  There is also the benefit of feed back as well as seeing your work through the 'blogging lens'.  And once we reach 100 followers,  special guests will be invited to post so the learning will continue.

And who knows?   Art just might be a regular workmate on the ol'  Wednesday Worktable!