mother earth necklace

I went to a bead show this weekend with my girlfriend Nancy and was inspired to make this necklace for her... its the first piece of jewelry that I have made in a very long time... Many shades of golden and green pearls with red and green garnets, tourmaline and peridot warped on to a golden chain with a bay leaf dipped in gold as the centerpiece.

paint and pen journal

This is a work in progress, I just want to play with only paint and in pen in this journal... I spent the day at Zinnia's with Kelly Kilmer she is such a great teacher, she was able to free me up so I can at long last mindlessly write in a journal! (This has been a block that I have been working on for over a year now, so I am extremely grateful!) We panted all the papers then we ripped them and sewed them up into the little journal, then we just played and learned a lot of fun stuff!

woman of straw

I was cleaning up my studio after doing my fabric book page and I was thinking about how I was going to do some halloween ATC's , so I took up some scraps from my table and came up with this, fiber atc stiched onto a aged copper frame... inspired by Susan lenart kazmer article in this months summerset, I want to try to do the resin papers that she talks about in her article, I have it all ready to try ... but resin is truly a messy thing and its was just so easy to use the fabric! But for the halloween ATC's I will do the resin :) I really am a lazy artist... I need to start to push myself a little more and use more of my jewelry skills in my mixed media... I guess its just that I came to mixed media as a place to get away from my jewelry so I never wanted to mix them ... but now that I no longer do jewelry as a profession, maybe now its time from me to do it as fun again :)

golden harmony

I just did these for a fabric 5x5 book page RR for Frieda her theme was gold the pages look more gold in person... I painted muslin gold then stamped gold flowers on top there is a lot of machine stitching on the back round the front of the page has golden coins with twigs on top of golden paper toweling wish a gold ribbon and gold fiber on top of golden stamped organza with beads trapped between the layers so they float around.



on the back I used organza and stamped on the image of a boy and a girl with some word text in the background floating between the organza and the muslin are beads and some book text from a Japanese English Dictionary that says gold there is some gold paper toweling a little sick with golden wire warped around a gold pearl with a charm that says harmony.

how cool is this!? thanks for the fun site Catherine !

back to school!

what happened to my babys! Sarah is starting the 10th grade and Brian 7th! its so amazing how fast the grow! I always take a first day of school pic but this morning went a little wacky and I almost for got! but as we ran out the door at 7:15 I rembered and took this fast shoot from the computer :)





after I drooped off the kids I was so happy to put my artfest cheek in the mail! I cant wait to see what classes I get! this will be my first time going so I am very excited!

This Little ATC is a transpencey on on coffee stained muslin with fiber and pearls.



this week has been wild getting the kids ready for school on Tuesday! I miss art... but soon things will be back to normal :) we are now off for a end of summer long weekend :)