petals of all shapes and sizes

...just a little eye candy for you :)

(click on the pictures to see a larger version)

I tried to bring out the electric colors I see when I wander around my garden. I pushed and pulled the exposure, contrast and color saturation (in iPhoto) to get these effects.

Come back tomorrow for Tea ...

Altered People

Today's Mixed Media Challenge is to make "altered people." I hope this fits the challenge today. I guess you could call this a blockhead. It's a one inch block with an inchie face on it. I gave her flowers for her hair and she now sits atop my peace sign.

I found her pretty face in a magazine and the flowers come from old silk flowers I've taken apart for just such purposes as this.

For the ongoing progress of this project click HERE for the previous posts.

It's like waiting for gesso to dry

Lumilyon was wondering what all this talk about gessoing pages is about (see yesterday's post). It's very tedious.

Today I .....

... gessoed 2 pages and did some laundry ...

... gessoed 2 pages and vacuumed ...

... gessoed 2 pages and mopped ...

... gessoed 1 page (because the other page was too pretty to cover up) and had lunch ...

etc.

(here's another book I did in this same technique last summer: phase one and phase two)

New Book

I took an old-ish picture book and sanded it ... then I applied gesso

then I painted it .... and applied tissue paper

then I attached my cereal box art to the front

and added some paper accents to the back.

Next, I'll gesso the inside pages and add stuff as inspiration hits me.

I'm thinking "haiku."

I love haiku.

2sday T ParT ... clouds and more

(As I write this it's actually Monday afternoon for me - I want to get the tea party post up bright and early since I'm a West Coaster.) 

Today (Monday), I met a friend at Barnes and Noble bookstore for tea and talking. The tea was yummy, but I didn't drink it all. It was a huge 2 teabagger - "grande?" maybe. Not wanting to waste it, I brought home my un-drunk (is that a word?) tea to enjoy for iced tea this afternoon.

Looking up, I saw these beautiful clouds and remembered Jane at Spain Daily talking about shooting a whole roll of film on clouds when she was a kid. A very worthy pastime.

My dog, Theo, was quite intrigued and maybe a little bit worried ....

... so we went back

 to enjoying iced tea on the back porch.

I hope your day is sweet! Thanks for sipping your tea with me today!

Come back next week if you can :)

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... and be sure to visit these tea parties today too!

Helping Hands

I've been adding bit by bit to my "Welcome and Peace" sign using MMM's weekly themes. This week's theme is "helping hands." I was nearly stumped and then I thought of "hearts and hands" ... a recurring personal theme in my life ... and then I thought of the cast aside box of Barbies we have. I used the arms from a "Kelly" doll and made the heart with foil sheeting and used hot glue to get it all stuck together and onto the sign. Using old doll arms is a little "edgy" for me - doll parts seem macabre to me - but I thought this looked like a heart ready for a hug.

MMM themes used so far: dots, easter, mermaids, beach, a significant word, and helping hands.

To see the progress week by week, click HERE.

Gifts from the Meadow

Thank you dear friend, Jean, for the lovely gifts from the Bluebird Meadow!

Happiest of all Mother's Days to all my dear friends - may your day be filled with gifts of all shapes, sizes, colors and textures. Colored, painted, drawn, written - art from the heart.