Hello,

Spring is teasing us here  in central New York.  It was so very nice and warm for three days and then we had a  cold day that ended in a snowstorm.   I am waiting for my spring flowers to appear.     The day that it snowed I took matters into my own hands and spent the day with Noel in her studio along with several others and we made our own flowers.    (look back two weeks to see Noel and Victoria’s  first ones)   It always amazes me how we human beings fliter and  apply our own tastes to the same processes.     These red, pink and purple blossems are Cheri’s and the black, tan and white ones are Noel’s.       We  all took the same basic materials and techhniques  but treated them with our own unique “stamp”.    Noel showed us how to create several types of flowers and then turned us loose.     Victoria, like Noel had made flowers before,  she cheerfully tried a complex rose type flower where each petal is made indavigaly.     I can hardly wait to see how everyone finishes her  necklace.     I was so excited by the processes that I kept making more flowers for the next two evenings.   I am sure I will have two or three necklaces even if I stopped with what I have.  I did take the time to lay out one possible combination.  It needs small additions like  beads and buttons.   I just keep thinking of more ways to play with these ideas.   And recalling things I did not try yet like yoyo flowers   that Cherri  did.    It sure  was a wonderful way to combat the snow falling outside that day!

Progress Report:  Foundations XV –New Direction   I am still struggling with this project.  I have added to the sides to pull away from the square format.  Then  this morning when I hung it on the wall- “What If” – hit and I turned it 45 degrees to the right and I liked it better- and even more so when I added to the those two sides as well. I try to always be open to what is happening while I am designing and wonderful things can happen.    I will push myself to do the remaining work on this one over the next few days.

New Work   I am still playing with this newest member of the  Foundation series.     This one  does not seem to know what way is up yet either- but I am enjoying the process.    I do think I will   leaves this one in a basic square format even though I am trying to go beyond that idea.     It is holding it’s own without that  challenge. 

Grove    I am making progress here too.  All the trees now have their horizontal branches.  I have them all connected to one another but I feel that it is almost too much to take in visually.   The blue below the trees is too busy as well,  so I plan to remove it and try again.   I just don’t know what will work until I try it sometimes. 

 Mia’s Quilt    These green and blue pieces are my prepations for the back of Mia’s Tee shirt quilt.  I am building the units and when they are big enough I will assemble them into the big back.  It is a fun process from my point of view.

                      Daily’s    I am finding time to do my Daily’s too.  They are starting to really pile up.

Think Spring and Keep Creating

Carol