Hello,
This week has been a quiet one for me. The snow and cold head me indoors for several days and I have had lots of appointments too. I did take advantage of the snow and do snow dyeing .
This is a shot of the bucket it before it melted.

 

These are the three pieces I created. The yellow is for the next fire piece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report: Robins I finally decided that a Robin facing left was needed for this project and did the thread painting. I will attach all the parts and stretch it this week.

6X6 Rochester Show I got the call for this show and did the work. They are all packed up and ready to ship now.   They will all be for sale at $20.00 a piece for their fund raiser next month.

 

 

 

 

Exploring Blue This is my new hand work project. I am enjoying adding the stitching and building up the surface.

 

 

 

Childhood Memories – Creative Mom

Mom was always looking for ways to express herself. She had a sewing closet near the bathroom in the Junction and then when they built the house in Carroll, she repeated that idea. She made most of her own clothing and lots for me as well. I remember a red and white buffalo check dress with a square opening that she made for me to wear the first day of Kindergarten. I loved that dress and wore it to shreds. She used her machine to make curtains and pillows as well as organizing bags as she called them. They were like folders with snap tops and she often put like things together in them. I remember a wonderful display she made for Christmas. It was a set of three angles and a basket with a Frozen Ann in it to represent the Christ child. The angles had pipe cleaner bodies that were dressed in a white silky material that she then added gold stars that one licks to stick on top. They had large wings that were created from two layers of foil backed card stock. There was a silver wing with a smaller pink foil wing   added on top. The halos were done in the same manner. The heads of the angles were little gold Christmas balls that Mom had carefully painted  that had closed eyed faces on with fluffy cotton hair. They stood at three different levels on foil covered milk boxes. I enjoyed setting up that display for many years. One year at Christmas she made wonderful cards where she water colored a beautiful woman holding a muff. By lifting one arm of the muff and then the other one could see the message.

I remember her working on an invitations one spring. They  too included a figure made with a solo pipe cleaner with a wintergreen life saver for its head. There was a small bit of a golden scrub pad for hair and a bit of nylon netting for its skirt. I lusted after those, but they all got mailed. I still think of them every time I smell wintergreen. Mom knitted as well. I remember one pair of red mittens that stained my hands pink when they got wet. I lost one of the mittens and there was no more red yarn so Mon knitted a green one. After that we played a lot of “Red Light- Green Light” that winter. Her hands were always busy and perhaps that is where I got my busy hand thing too.

Keep Creating

Carol