work, travel.... gone...

It seems like for me at least at the beginning of the year things are exceptionally crazy with my job. The holidays came and went and I also was home and gone to Denver, CO and home and gone to Tulsa, OK and working an amount of hours that have made me want to sleep for a month. But forget that stuff... I have done a few creative things....

Made the layout way better than it was before.

 I think if I had an Ikea close by I could of done way more.

 You have to love what you can get at local stores to make a new table.

 I made a "Merry Christmas" banner 

(I cannot find the picture of the finished banner)

Banner in progress....

I had painted this piece of fabric a while back 

and decided to make some bags out of it....

The finished bag.....

And then I broke my finger... trying to start my snowmobile.... 

I am still wearing a splint but it's a bit smaller but of course

 it is my right hand and I am right handed.

Well thanks for stopping by.... more post to come but have to head to work.

Have a great day!

Progress is being made on my angel...

Progress on my Angel... I think she will be finished soon!

When I am painting I always have pages from old books around and then I use up paint on them when I a finished painting on something. I had a collection of pages that have been prepared.  When I was painting the body of the angel I was thinking of using fabric to make up her "dress" but I was looking at some of my painted pages and some snowflakes I had made earlier in the month and thought that ummmm that is what I am going to do, cut out snowflakes from those pages. That is what I did and put them all over her body. I glued them down with matte medium gel. After the gel was dried I outlined the snowflakes with ink. Next steps, her face and hair, not sure how well that will go, I am not much of a doll maker.

Thanks for stopping buy and looking.

Angel re-do...

I started working on my new angel tree topper and did not like how it was turning out with the paper mache I was using (I purchased some stuff at the art store to try).  Needless to say most of her went into the trash. I saved the head and the plastic water bottle. Now I have begun anew:

This time I used torn book pages and matte gel medium to "glue" it together. I must say it is turning out much better than the last. I meant to take a picture of my failure but I didn't. Well I think I am off to a better start that before. I need to get this done so I can put up my Christmas tree.

More to come and thanks for stopping by and looking.