12x12 CD pieces

The week has flown by & I've finished 3 of the 6 pieces I'm putting into Inchmore Gallery for selection. It's a very accessible size so there might be some fierce competition!

This is the same ground as last weeks cuffs with turquoise foil added, that is, sweet wrapper foil - chewy mints if I remember rightly. Makes the 'bought' iron  foil go further. 4 little tiles of the same fabric stitched down on top.

I've gone back briefly to the weaving part of my life tho I couldn't for the life of me find the 'official' frame I used before so I wrapped an empty frame. Tied a few bits & pieces then stitched on a couple of beads from an old neclace. I'll have to weave in all the 'hairy' ends so it fits into the CD case.

You'll have seen this before in the form of a book cover or 2 & a collage - I found the heart already stitched to the velvet & added it to some leftover ground. A few beads & stitched painted paper  & I'm pleased so far. Price for a 12x12 CD case full of art? Tricky. I thought they were all ging to be priced the same but I'm not sure.

 

Just caught some daylight with the first 3 pics but here's some out of focus flash work. Just to prove I've made the cuff, along with another earing & brooch. I need to get on, the fairs aren't that far away!

Postcard Numbers 20 and 21

I opened 2 postcards today. Well, I didn't open Kim's from Numinosity Beads as it was in the pile 'naked' all the way from Alaska. It got a bit stuck to somehing so I picked a bit of it off & the post office I think had stuck a strip of paper across the bottom - I had to work out whether it was Kim's creativity or not, but I took a chance & carefully peeled it back revealing faint red bar codes, interesting - you can see it's travelled!

The card is facinating, a pretty butterfly matched against a little bit of antiquity, a diagram of a pelvis...I think, both of similar shapes, very intriguing. I love it!

I am enthralled, thank you.


The next one was from Jean at Genies Art World all the way from Devon, from one end of the country to the other. This card is so deeply moody, watery,I feel I could just get into it! It's printed from an origonal photo,beautiful blues & purples with gorgeous turquoise shell beads stitched on in between linear stitches. Lovely!

I am floating, thank you.


I also got two presents, you shouldn't have! A sunshiny brooch & my very first atc, a guardian angel. Thank you so much  ;)

Tomorrow, I need to catch up with my squares!

postcards 11 & 12 & a month of squares

I am back & I have been away, well, for 2 days.

I took a birthday card away with me to open. This was sent by Robyn Gordon at Art Propelled (blogroll) from  Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. The envelope was covered in fabulous stamps, bright tropical colors, love 'em. Robyn carves totems & panels & as they'd be a tad large to post she sent me a card of South African work, a lovely picture of the Fengu people. She was worried about only swapping art cards, but I realised that as well as receiving beautiful samples of peoples work this is also about communication, world wide communication.

I am honored to have this from so many different places, thank you.

This morning I opened my 12th postcard from Sue at Heloise (blogroll). It is riotous, an explosion of color & texture - I love it! I have oft admired her color choice, ragged edges & wild stitching & was not dissapointed. To top it all off Sue sent me my giveaway winnings! A lovely brooch with a poignant time worn feeling to it. I may frame it. I will touch them.

I am touched, thank you.

And finally, my squares. The last 6 are very late, but they're here aren't they?!

And the month of May all together, well, bar the last day.

Since starting the postcards the making squares has been more challenging. I am revelling in this challenge!