On my first day in West Vancouver we set out to travel the West Vancouver sea wall and to get a feel for the community we would call home for the next week. A friend alerted me to the proximity of the Cherry Blossom 2015 fibre art show and I was watching for the Silk Purse Gallery during my travels. When I arrived at the gallery the organizers were setting up for the feature event of the week: A presentation about a fibre art copy of Joy...

  OK!  I’m still here! I really meant to get back to my blog/web site sooner!  Is it really two  months since the last post? It’s been mostly good stuff and creative time.  Thinking back, it was the re-occurrence of a back problem that forced me to take a break in the beginning.  Long hours at the computer entering data for this web site and winter inactivity probably were factors.  Then, I had some really intense creative...

One of the ‘want to do’s’ that has been on my list for some time is exploration of Zen Tangles.  So I decided to combine it with my new attempt at journaling this year.  I’m using the library found at tangles.com to help me get started. As I mentioned yesterday, I have prepared my own tangle tiles from 110 lb card stock that I had on hand.  Unlike the journaling that I plan to do daily, I am not limiting myself to one...

I’ve never spent much time with paper-based arts but obviously have had a hankering to do so – I’ve got the supplies on hand!  I’ve decided to allocate a bit of time this year to exploring journals and book-making and have spent the last couple of days ‘playing’.  If I hadn’t, I’d still be procrastinating and who knows when I would get started! Over the past two days I’ve introduced my mini...

In the past I’ve been unsuccessful in remaining faithful to my journaling efforts.  I did manage one NaNo challenge!  Part of the problem arises when I ‘get lost’ in the journal pages and spent too much time doing them and part arises from frustration with bound journal pages.  So I’m trying a new approach. I also want to explore ‘tangles’ this year and have prepared to do so by making my own tangle...

Happy New Year everyone! I was going to wait until tomorrow to do a post but thought better of it.  I need to put down a marker – a marker for a new beginning, a new direction, a new focus. It’s been a pleasant start to the New Year.  A leisurely breakfast, some work on a major fiber art piece neglected for a couple of years because it is too large for my work area in the RV, preparation for some journal work this year, topped off...

‘H for Heart’ is part of a SAQA traveling exhibition in 2012-2014 – ‘Best of the West’ Inspiration For a long time now I have been thinking about committing to a monthly 12 x 12 piece of fibre art to journal my art and life – weekly or daily would be too much at this point! It’s a great way to try out new techniques without committing to a major piece. I have had a little prodding – the western Canada SAQA...

  I’ve been struggling to get some art routine re-established and hope that by taking advantage of the inspiration provided by Dawn DeVries Sokol’s web challenge Na(tional)No(nstop) Jou(rnaling) Mo(nth), I might just succeed in November.  I’m new to art journaling but have been following some journaling sites and videos for a while so decided it might fit with my November schedule.  I didn’t get a lot done this...

I can’t believe that it’s eleven months since my last post!  It’s not that I haven’t been playing, experimenting, painting, stitching, beading and in general creating!  The rambling lifestyle (check out my other blog) has lots of benefits but it does take a toll on serious ‘studio’ time.  Not to mention two years of recovering the use of my dominant hand and wrist after a serious break have taken their toll...

I just found this really neat site for an on-line quilt festival and thought I would post an entry. There is a first time for everything!     My entry is the wedding wall quilt that I made for my son and daughter-in-law a few years ago.     Under the guise of making a scrapbook for them, I asked them both write the story of how they met and under another pretense got a copy of some of their digital photographs. Where I...