Eat your carrots!
Or maybe I should say "play with your food"... Click here for more pictures or to buy this week's book of the week. You'll see shortly what this week's inspiration was.I took a break from all of my big ambitious goals last week and chilled out (literally, it was crazy snowy here) by taking a week to make crafty stuff for Christmas. This time of year always makes me want to go craft crazy and I decided to indulge in the craving. Check out this bird I made from recycled old book. The bird's body is from a cover and the wings are made from pages. She's a reading bird. I made a few of these. I think I might sell them next year.
I wish I had taken pictures of the cool books I made my sister for Christmas. I made her an awesome dos-a-dos wine journal (different than the ones I sell) and a crazy Christmas stocking altered book that took forever and left me wishing I had made three or four.Speaking of my sister, she came up for a few days and I taught her how to make felted goodies. Here's the felted goody that started it all. I made him several weeks ago with some crafty buddies of mine.
And here's a picture of me felting last week. My son Oscar was pretending to felt too. I used a needle. He used a pipe-cleaner.
I started felting my new slippers:
My son got a play kitchen (we've been calling it kitchen stadium) for Christmas. So my sister felted my son a carrot to go with his kitchen:
Anyway, I gave myself permission to let go of my holly jolly goal so I could play at Christmas time. Play is important when you are an artist. Play leads to important discoveries and breakthroughs. You can't be all work and no play.
CRAFT ON!
P.S. I do have some awesome drawings I'm really excited about. I'm turning them into collages today, so all is not lost for my holly jolly Goal.
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