Almost Done Sign

It's a good thing I take this down about once a week to add something to it .... today I found quite a bit of sawdust piling up behind it .... carpenter ants? Eeeeew! Something to report to the Husband I guess.

Today I added "A Story," the theme over at Mixed Media Monday this week. As always, my stories tend to involve colors, children, home and flowers.

I think I have room for one more dangly bit .... and I envision miniature animals - ducks and hedgehogs - marching across the top of the board. It's fun to have a project that gets added to over time. It's rather a chronicle of my spring and early summer .....

For all of the previous posts regarding the making of my "Welcome and Peace" sign, click HERE.

Rainy Day Tea

Grey Skies

Drooping Flowers

Hot Tea and Summer Reading

Titus Groan by Marvin Peak (a gothic british fantasy novel - #1 of a trilogy)

The Big Picture by David Suzuki (an examination of science and the environment)

The Appeal by John Grisham (let's just say "page turner")

For more tea on Tuesday - visit Nancy, Ooglebloops and Patty (my regulars) - and join in yourself if you'd like with your favorite cuppa and a bit of news :)

The Tin Man saves the day ....

(atc for ELK's swap)

It's the tin man who saved the day right? By not falling asleep among the poppies ... but then he rusted when it snowed on everyone .... but it all turned out ok in the end. I love that song you hear in the background as they run run run out of the poppy field once they all wake up .... "you're out of the woods ... you're out of the dark ... you're out of the night" .... and the witch says something like, "Why is there always someone helping that girl!?"

I made the tin flowers by using a flower punch to punch out the shape, and then added dimension by embossing the metal:

Awake!

I found some great black coated sheet metal and used it to make a frame for this piece I had done earlier in the spring.

I used an embossing stylus to get the detail in the metal, then sanded it with sandpaper, then rubbed in a yellow paint which I lightly buffed.

(I'll be putting it in my etsy shop too)

Mixed Media Monday (On Wednesday)

I think this sign will be done soon :)

I've been adding to it a little bit at a time with the creative prompts over at Mixed Media Monday. This week's prompt was "numbers."

I did a little research on Prime Numbers for another project (see farther below). The numbers strung up here are what I'm calling the childhood primes. All the prime number ages of childhood. So many of the friends we welcome to our door are children - so I thought this would fit perfectly on my "welcome and peace" sign.

********

And then I have a brother turning 47 this year. When I originally made this little 2X4 I found out what a special kind of prime number 47 is.

I added the word descriptors of "47" that I found in wikipedia as a strung up addition.

He's a really smart guy - so I think he'll appreciate it - in a geeky kind of way ;)

Taking a Little Break

I'm feeling the need to take a little break from the blog

you know, kind of like going out for recess when it's 85' in the classroom and 72' on the playground

I mean - it's a beautiful day and I'm out in it

I'll be back in a few days

I hope your day is beautiful too :)

Happy Tuesday!

Welcome to Tea on Tuesday

take a break

say hello

visit with friends

(9:00 pm twilight in the Seattle area)

this is tea from a friend

she knows more than a little something about

balms

and

remedies

And this was my project today ... lunch bags for the girls. Their school lunch boxes have seen better days and even though school is almost out - now is the time to buy oilcloth. If I wait until fall there won't be any to be found anywhere!

So I've gotten one down - two more to go!