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from the artist’s studio
so I’m having fun on my new big desk. I posted some ballerinas fabric painted in my last blog. now I’ve got two embroidered I went around the outline with black thread and hand sewing needle. simple as that ๐ till next time art fans….
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ballet experimentation
I have a studio now using carbon paper I transfer some images onto fabric then I paint with fabric paints. I may embroidered at a later stage but just seeing if the idea works yes it does ๐ so that is today’s experimentation… dance on folks ๐
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ballet disappointment and new masterpiece
so I’m at a low ebb again. my mental health at all time low again. my ballet got cancelled and then I had a lot of stress sorting out cancelling b and b. it was my dream this year to see a ballet. in fact the one goal I wanted to achieve. I had my…
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Ta da!
my cross stitch masterpiece is finished. this has kept me going all week. it’s what kept me ‘afloat’ if you excuse the pun! ๐ a lot a lot of hand sewing and a lot a lot of yarn later the work pays of , what joy and contentment I had making this piece. I was…
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10 minute photography project; things covered in snow.
was looking through a few books and a project in one was about going out round the neighbourhood and taking photos on a theme. ๐คwell its snowing today so hmm whats the theme ๐snow obviously! so away down the road I go, can’t go far these days but was fun. well nothing too spectacular but…
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almost there ๐
so I’ve been working on an under the sea tapestry for several days now I added 2 angel fish then started on the background. but wait I didn’t have enough blue. went to Poundland and got a few balls of yarn thought the sea is often green so I would add some green I was…
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sea horse started
got a cute little sea horse cross stitch done. yet to add back ground. Happy with him so far ๐
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learning cross stitch
I’ve always been confused by cross stitch charts but lately wanting to expand my hand sewing skills I wanted to have a bash at it. the only way I could figure it out was to do the design in one colour counting the squares and then introduced other colours on top and using this method…
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world pangolin day
it’s Pangolin day. yes me the biggest fan of pangolins has only just realised this is the 3rd Saturday of February today. luckily I have a pangolin mug to drink my tea out of to celebrate so let’s talk about pangolins. their scales are made out of keratin the same as our nails. they like…
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falling apart creates art
so I’m going through a mental health crisis which escalated tonight. I went from being in a very bad state to doing an online art therapy class. I represented all I’m feeling and the tutor helped me find ways to illustrate it and I did a fun little picture. it’s freeing not to worry about…