Little bitsa fabric fun

I've had two swap-bot deadlines worrying me this week - one for a handmade item and one where you had to show your heart. In the depths of the night I realised that I could do two things almost the same, so voila - two wall hangings very similar to each other!

As well as free machine embroidery to secure the raw edge applique, I've scrawled about with markals and a chinagraph pencil, added buttons and wrote the description of each heart next to it, then hung each very simply from some bamboo cane with my favourite hairy string for hanging.

No idea if the people receiving them will enjoy them half as much as I did making them.......

I've never smoked, never even wanted to because both my parents were smokers when I was a small child. Yet I know exactly when I would have a cigarette throughout my daily life. Walking home in the pouring rain I realised I was thinking - if I smoked I would get home, have a coffee and a look at the paper (I don't get a paper) and have a cigarette. Exactly what my mum does every morning.

It amazed me that I could absorb my mum's routines so very very deeply - especially as I haven't lived with her for almost 20 years. Even more terrifying is the revelation that I know these routines because I've observed them from babyhood (along with the thrill of playing with empty B&H cigarette packets which I've know got an olfactory memory of and the joy of wafting my hands through the beautiful curls of grey smoke) - what the heck have my children absorbed for good or for bad? What will they be doing or not doing for the rest of their lives because I did X or Y?

Visual Feast

Oh my word - more chunky pages came this morning and wow, wow, wow! I am so looking forward to putting these books together - they are looking magnificent just loose leaf

Amazing cloud pictures

Kind of scary looking if they were on your doorstep eh?

Creative Journey

Creative Journey

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Peek a boo

Don't think I showed you this yet - a 3D doodling I made at my retreat earlier in the summer - guess who'd been looking at the Stampington transparencies book earlier that day? Middle top is a pill capsule - if I'd thought about it I wouldn't have swirled paint in it then wondered why it started to dissolve! It ended up being a race between the setting point of acrylic and the dissolving point of the capsule. No idea what I'm going to do with this - let it hang around and gather dust probably.

Wading Through Treacle

That's what this catching up feels like. Suddenly I have a million things to do and only seconds in which to do any of them. Guess I'm feeling a bit out of sorts but I'll shake it off soon.

On a brighter note toot toot for Maz getting some of her fabulous photos in Lisa Vollrath's new edition of her zine. She's been far too quiet about that herself so I'll shout from the rooftops for her!