Finally a Break Through!

Pet Cemetary

To say that my husband was concerned about me when I did a sudden 180 into metal and leather would be an understatement! When I made this announcement in my newsletter I even lost subscribers, lol.

After spending the afternoon yesterday hand-hammering some sheets of copper it finally came to me today.

I want to make more of these pieces: Pet Cemetery, The Deer Slayer. Spring Time.

I was walking past Spring Time yesterday afternoon and stopped to take a long look at the piece, remembering how much fun it was to assemble the piece. The other two pieces were a complete joy to create.

The great part is now I have the tools to not only make my own hand-hammered copper I also have the appropriate torch system to create metal shrine boxes, but I'm also no longer limited to using wood as my armature.

So this is what you'll be seeing in future videos, metal smithing, leatherwork, stitching, beading, painting, natural dyes, rust dyeing, etc. In other words, I'm going full-on mixed media!

It feels great to finally have a new vision, to be out of my slump! Happy creating.

The Deer Slayer

Spring Time

Day 14 Cleaning the Studio

Making headway in the main studio, my sewing machine if finally on my sewing table once again!

The marigold dye vat is looking gross, tomorrow I’ll be adding a heater and an air bubbler to the vat.

Lots of stuff to accomplish in the next two weeks like finish cleaning my studio and the family room, and getting my office and the dining room dealt with as well. I’m turning my office into a weaving and spinning room (I have several looms).

I’ve decided that unless a body of work I’m working on requires hand spun or hand woven fabrics that weaving and spinning are now officially relegated to the land of “that’s my hobby” so I will have a creative outlet that doesn’t also have the pressure of needing it to make income as well, this is very important for one’s creative mental health.

I’ve been hankering to do some beadwork but unfortunately me beads are blocked off by a pile of stuff that needs to be dealt with, there are days when I wish I could clone myself times three to get it all done!

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Too Cheerful

Well I've been working on my series At the Marsh and somehow this bright and cheerful piece came out of the end of my brush. 

It's too cheerful for my current series, which is more somber in tone, so I'm setting it aside to be stitched later. In the meantime I have gobs of stitching to do in anticipation of two solo shows I'm hanging the first week of January. 

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