better now

no sooner than i posted my feelings and misgivings about the series of unfortunate events happening to me, aha, a window opened. i love the universe, it rules, totally. so things are not only better they are awesome. somedays it is good to be a spiritual being having a human experience. so, i've got books to read, blogs to share and of course pics. where to start, well the books will be listed in what i'm reading now. all of them are good reads so far, except i feel button button could have had more innovative ideas instead of just alot of sewing buttons on store bought things. i love the button flowers so of course i will be making some.

okay art-junkies.blogspot.com what can i say, i love them, by linking to them i then found arttradermag.com OMG this is delicious AND nutricious, but i simply must mention trishbee.uk.co who started it all YAY. it is true one thing leads to another, and all these people led me right out of my miserability (YEA I KNOW) and back on track. thank you wonderful artists for being real and OPEN.

okay the pics are the last of the amulet trade, pretty green and lovely aborigine hottie (yum). blue bird goddess and oxford owl flew away and went to live with Mickey jo. and i made paperdolls from painted paper towel scraps. i was cutting out leaves for the green collage i'm working on and some of the scraps looked like dresses to me so. results.

project runway and dr. who

no pics today, i am in a blue mood. not the peaceful melancholy i usually float with but an ugly ick feeling of boredom and feduppedness. it's still simmering on the backburner but something is bothering me. i have tons of things to work on but i'm not getting anything done this week. okay, very little. okay very little for me, but the thing is, i'm not happy and i'm not exactly sure why. i love it that we all have a sixth sense about things and some of us listen and act on these feelings and others of us are seemingly oblivious, some days i wish i were the latter. i hate it some days when i can see so far down the road, i can see you coming before you leave your house. so before you've made the days decisions i already know where we are going with this. this is the feeling i am having right now, well all week really. i am praying i am wrong, i will be so disappointed if i am right, just once please please please don't be predictable. sigh

meanwhile this week on television, project runway made me sad this week. on the one hand the beautiful and beloved green goddess Natalie Portman was a guest judge and i was so happy to see her, she has her own organic shoe line, take us on, i think. on the other hand i was very sad for some of the designers, they were crying, already. this does not bode well, the pressure hasn't really begun yet so i was perplexed and well, saddened by events. and i felt so sad for that last little designer with her loopy dress. she was so happy and inspired upon going out then WHAM! not only do they call her designer first year student work but even her model betrayed her. the model does realize that if her designer goes home chances are very good that a two faced backstabbing model will be going home as well. and to have that drama happen in front of Natalie Portman. I empathized with the situation because i think something like that is happening right now, i hope i'm wrong. sigh

Dr. Who!! season finale pt 1!! OMG!! donna, martha, rose, captain jack, sara jane and even the former prime minister and of course the dialects AND the shadow proclamation. is this the last hurrah? r we getting a new doctor? AGAIN?? will everyone really be dead this time? anywho they are going out with a BANG this season. how are they gonna top this? i loved every moment. with everything going on in my head at the moment this was a perfect and wonderful distraction.

my daughters' birthday is coming up soon so i will have pics soon. packages going out, packages coming in. it is busy, i am busy, i'm just also blue.

finished hulk sign

forgot to post finished sign,

thereyago

My Dotee trades are here!!

Yay, they arrived and they are adorable! The thing i love about dotees is the individual personalities, how is that possible in something so small? I am so happy that dotty from australia created dotees and even happier that she gladly shared that knowledge thus making it possible for Barb of F.A.T. to share the fun with us. These ones have delicate little embroidered faces, and i have seen some beautiful tiny embroidery on others as well all i can say is more power to the women who can do that cus i really just can't. And I am in awe of those that can. okay, the asian one with the cherry blossom kimono and moonstone earrings is called Soochan, the pink one with yellow felted hair, intricate beading and embroidery is Dolores, and the lovely lace one that i secretly coveted and am so happy i received is Dona Maria Regalia Dotee. All the names popped into my head while i was unwrapping them so that's what they are. Don't you just love dotees? I can't wait to make more but am still taking it easy. I did a little work today but not very much for not very long. Ah well, I rest today, so i can create tomorrow, or the next day. this is such a bummer but my new dotees are keeping my spirits up. Have a dotee Day

perfectly still

It was an incredibly busy week for me so i have lots of pics to post naturally. An "out of the blue" postcard arrived from a f.a.t. friend. And my dotees found new homes on friday, which means next week new dotees will arrive. I also crocheted a little monster for my dd who is far far away and made a purple dotee for the dd in jax. My SIL asked if i would paint the Hulk sign on his son's wall and of course i said yes. Unfortunately, this meant painting from a ladder with my arm up over my head for an extended length of time. So now i feel like i've been beaten with a bag of rocks. it didn't help that i also walked into town carrying a backpack full of packages to mail off to friends, family and fatties. But the Hulk sign looks great. the pic i have is unfinished but i will take a pic of the finished sign soon. I even finished assignment five of my writing course and mailed it off too. I have decided to spend the entire weekend lying perfectly still and letting my body rest. oddly enough, but not surprisingly, i find it incredibly difficult to remain still. i keep thinking of little things i could be doing besides resting. I've caught up on my Anime list and finally got to watch my Netflix movies. "Penelope" was alot of fun to watch and i really loved the rooms and clothing. Project Runway started this week and the first challenge was design an outfit from things in a grocery store. I immediately thought of a painted paper towel dress with coffee filter underskirt. won't be able to sketch it til next week though cus i'm supposed to be still. and the good news is our confinement is finally over so we'll be sewing again real soon. i know that sounds like gypsy will be sewing too but she will be cheering me on so it counts as the same thing. okay, better stop typing, gotta rest my arm.

more bird Goddesses

i was thinking i choose 3 of the bird goddesses to make fiber atc's for the next fat trade. i think that would be pretty cool since i've already got goddesses made i just needed to put them on cloth. sounds like a plan and less work for me.

more atc"s

the atc trades are sunflowers, owls, penguins and dragonflies. then i started my bird goddesses for one on one trading.

still more

it honestly felt like my birthday i got so much stuff. i also received an amulet bag and paper kimono for out of the blue, the recycled plastic on the sleeves was that mesh you find on fruit, neat huh? she also gave me fat quarters in a nice burgundy. i absolutely love fat quarters!! I also made a paperdoll and to paper birds out of paper scraps. i've been really busy this week, learning a new amigurumi pattern and starting a crocheted square for a round robin. it's not for a group, just some people i know who like to crochet. i've got projects started all over the place and the blue room is getting a little full. next week, organization! I've been working on my atc"s as well, what was i thinking, 5 trades at once!! i mail the sets off today and then i start my one on one trading. we shall see.

another week gone by

where does the time go? it's nearly 4 am, i was talking to my daughter (who is far, far away) and she said, "Mom let me call u back." i said okay and continued on working on my art, after awhile i wondered what time it was and WHAM!! it's nearly 4 am. what am i doing up? why am i still working? yes, yes, time flies when your'e having fun, but i can barely see i'm so tired. ah, well, i've got pictures to post. i have quite a few so first the trade packets going out, then what i've received so far, a madame butterfly paperdoll from my paperdoll trade, and lovely bluebird with caution tape breast from the out of the blue trade, a lovely amulet bag with dyed papertowel and fuzzy yarn straps.

so many things

i finally got my trades for my f.a.t. group done, YAY! You've already seen "Out of the blue", so i will post the amulet bags and the other dotees. Dotees are addictive and I've got to comment of Dot's page to let her know that. Dot is the lady from Australia who invented Dotees. I've got to put her in my list of favorite blogs cus i love her work. Well Gypsy and I finally got some peace and quiet and some but not all the things we planned got done. No matter. We did alot. it is enough. Also Webbed Shoes and Flutterby, made it to Canada safely and they are loved so I am happy. Sugah and Peep will go out again next week when i go into town. better luck this time i hope. I've made a lot of painted paper towel and am working on some new ATC's. I haven't started any new paperdolls yet though. no doubt when we are once again confined to the blue room Gypsy and i will get alot of "paper" work done. I forgot to mention that the third button fairy arrived, doesn't she look like Betty Boop? the floral paper is going to go on the new collage i'm working on. YaY! The blue amulet bag is made with painted paper towel. isn't it cute?