08/21/2015

I've been playing around with some ball point pens doing some free hand doodles. Check it out.

Here's the first one. No pencils no erasers just me and an ink pen. Can you say art therapy?

This is number two and I really love this piece it has kind of a bluish greenish teal-ish colors and a purply blue.

Then this one came along.  Just a little bookmark. I watercolored the paper before I drew the design and I even burned the edges.

Number four is done on a stretched canvas. Not sure how I feel about this when yet. But I did discover glitter ink pens what fun.

I don't think it's done yet.

This one I really like!  It is done on white paper and I used a red pen, a purple pen with glitter in it and a mauve pen. 

Everyone says it looks like Hair.

For me I just like how it flows, however I am thinking of doing one it's all sharp points so stay tuned.

Then I did a Pineneedle bracelet. I still really like the infinity design.

So in the last week or so I have done multiple zentangle inspired drawings,  three baskets and started a fourth,  and a Pineneedle bracelet as well.

Art is a great stress reliever.

Whoops I forgot to show you the baskets…

And then I did a little purple and blue one. That's purple and blue threads of course.

 OK I think that's everything now now!

07/07/2015

New art!  LOOK BASKETS!  working on my ergonomics so stitching doesn't hurt my hand again.

I still l love me some Juniper Cedar!

And of course some weaving...

06/24/2015

Light, dark and medium pinkknot-work in Andean pebble weave.  Cotton of course, reversible AND handmade Juniper buttons on one side!

 

05/18/2015

TADA!

I never thought I'd like the color rust and the color burgundy together but it turns out I do. Leave it to a fellow artist to push me past my comfort zone.

The one that has the love on it is for her. A gift for a friend's birthday. And the other I just did for my table at the farmers market since the thread was there.

05/05/2015

TADA!!!  How 'bout a custom trivet!

i'm getting ready for the weekend at the farmers market. So I've been polyurethane eating and making art as fast as I can. I worked up the tapestry loom…

Already have the inkle loom warped with hand dyed, hand spun silk.

And of course can't forget the Firebird.

And dragon.  But I modified him a little.  Got rid of the white chest.

I think it looks more cohesive this way :-).

And then I warped up the BIG frame loom with intermesh technique.  Purple and blue. 

This is the back side.  

Front side.

They are called flowers and this will be a cuff bracelet.

Check it out!

It would be totally reversible, except for the lettering.

Back to the loom...

04/09/2015

Not much of the post girls and boys just pics of what I've been up to… A couple little table toppers.

They are actually a beautiful salmon color with the stripe down the center that is a smoky pink, beautiful if I do say so myself. They may eventually become envelope pouches. I'm not sure yet what they will be when they grow up.

Then a few bracelets/cuffs.  

Some of those buttons are handmade cedar tree limb slices that I made myself. And of course we do have various techniques.  This blue one fits ankles.

And even a little graphite pencil work.

 

Even a 'lil pastel chalk.  This one will have hooks in the center of several of the flowers, it could be used either for keys or for jewelry to hang on.  

03/12/2015

It has been too long since I posted on the blog. I have been working very hard on some handwoven bracelets. I've had a lot of epic fails but I did get a couple of nice pieces out of the deal. I even bought myself a special bracelet loom.

I'm planning on starting back at the St. Augustine old city farmers market on Saturdays, at least every other Saturday starting this weekend.   Wish me luck.

Here are a few pictures of what I did come up with.

One of the problems I'm having is the figuring out the finished size of the bracelet along with the added in fastening. I also have to take into consideration how much the technique I'm weaving has in take-up. Sometimes you can lose up to 30% of your weaving with work face take up. So I ended up with some that will very much be children's bracelets,  as they turned out too small for an adult to slip over their hand.

On this one I tried a little inlay technique. 

The first one you see here is a lead slips on to an adult's arm. The one you see on the right has charms all the way around it and it is so stinking cute. But it is only big enough for a child to slip onto their arm.

A choker or two made it into the mix also.

I really love this blue and purple together.

And of course I also had to add in some natural elements. I made these buttons from slices of tree limb. Juniper/Cedar of course.

I absolutely love these glass beads for the closure.

And here we have another one with the Cedar button…

Ii got a thread crossed on the backside of this next one. But I made it for myself anyway. So I just hide the flaw on the inside and wear it anyway. It just slips over my wrist no closure.  This technique creates a very heavy boardy/stiff         fabric.  So I just sewed the ends together and slip it onto my arm. It is so heavy in fact the sewing machine really didn't like working with it.

And we all know how much I love to do scrolls. I will indeed be doing more bracelets. I'm trying to find something where I can finish one or two in a day versus 1 a week. 

The baskets and the weaving handbags are much more time-consuming so we'll see how it goes. Stay tuned there will be more prototypes coming.

01/22/2015

A basket for a friend of mine's husband to empty his pockets into at the end of the day. I hope he likes it

The wood reminds me of an ear, or maybe even a Porkchop! LOL!