Time for a little creativity even!
Yes, while the turkey was roasting on Christmas day and the potatoes were boiling and the pie and stuffing were done, I took a little time for art! About a thousand lifetimes ago (meaning last winter, maybe February-ish) I took an online class with Sharon Boggon (her site is here and is now called In a Minute Ago, here blog is Pin Tangle) about a “working” sketchbook. Not a fancy, work-of-art-in-itself journal, but about using a journal as a way to flesh out ideas and stimulate creativity. Here’s a link to the class description…I really enjoyed the class! Alas, I have been abysmal at keeping up with it–simply too much life happening. BUT…. I have the journal and the supplies and the desire. So on Christmas I made the time!
I took some of the squares I had cut from magazine pages, and some words and phrases, and started gluing them up. One page became two…. then I took my WONDERFUL Christmas gift from hubby: a set of 72 Derwent Inktense pencils
and a waterbrush and, in the evening after supper while watching Starman with my family, colored in the background. I LOVE IT!
And I cannot let the last Christmas posting pass without Kate’s candles–I’ll blog about our Frayed Edges meeting in a few days, but I had to share these. Kate found the votives in cylindrical glass cups then re-purposed old (tossed out) sheet music. The large one is from Stonewall Kitchen (a Maine company) and smells of “Maine Forest.”
December 29th, 2010 at 10:19 am
How do you have time to do it all? You’re amazing!
About the Derwent pencils–can you use them on fabric?
January 7th, 2011 at 9:47 am
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