Day 3 - Affirmations & Letting Go

Day 3 - I have this idea for the blank space of wall above my headboard. As I was planning for my month of creativeness, I was writing down words I wanted to create art around: Confidence, Healthy, Closeness, Strength, Boldness. After having the list it gave me an idea. What about a collaborative art piece? Each piece is individual yet when put together creates a wall of affirmations, reminders of how to treat yourself. Positives for life. It's an idea anyway. We'll see how it comes along.

Yesterday's piece I created was entitled 'Letting Go.' We, as sensitive beings tend to hold onto things. Things from our past, our childhood, past hurts. It doesn't get us anywhere but we let them define us, to bind us to being a certain person. This piece will be a reminder to let all that stuff go and move forwards. To just be me, without all the expectations of others to cling to me. I'm letting go.  (The left part with the bright parts of paint was a transparency I had used as a paint palette. I couldn't throw it away so I kept it. Keep everything! lol)

Okay, can't stop to talk longer. I'm off for a day in the city, Kansas City. We're going to see the Lady Diana exhibit at Union Station. We'll have lunch and also help water the community garden my mother helps with. It's a project to provide food for agencies that help those in need. What a perfect Friday.

What will you create today?

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Day 2 - Chicken Sewing!

Day 2 is here! Yesterday I spent the day at the pool for my twin nieces' birthday party. 12 screaming 9 year olds. Fun times. Gathered a bit of pink skin that managed to get through the SPF 30. I'm working on my summer tan. 

 (my youngest niece showing us the bug she found in the pool)

I had planned to start my crafty experiment with paper creations as is my wont but after pulling out the WIP hatbox, I was too taken with it to leave it alone! There are so many wonderful partially finished creations in there. Many pieces are old quilt squares made by some long ago sewer. I have had lofty plans of making my own quilt with them or at least pillows. But yesterday I pulled out a square I had made. Of a chicken.

I don't know where the idea for him came but I think its highly appropriate now that the little one and I are wanting to raise chickens from scratch. In due time, but in the meantime, I can have chicken art!

I pulled out fabrics that would match the square as well as go with my bedroom decor.  I can't remember where I purchased it but the egg fabric is my favorite. The red fabric is a reproduction of a fabric from 1879. I love reproduction fabrics!

This keeps happening with my sewing machine. It will be going along just fine and them BOOM! It will start making a crazy sound and this will happen. What's up with that? (Just noticed my fabrics don't line up. I'm not a very 'exact' sewer. It always seems to work out in the end anyway.)

I found the fuzzy trim wadded up in a bag of trims. Really, you never know what I have in my studio, it's crazy. So glad it matched!

 

What have you created today?!

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Day 1 - Beginnings

Day 1 is here! Are you as excited as I am? It's like knowing the fair is in town and your family will be going tomorrow. It's knowing a day full of funnel cake, games and rides are in your near future! I'm over the moon excited to being my month of creative expression. I've been feeling the creative vibes for days; pulling out supplies, reading art magazines, perusing art books from the library. I even found this long forgotten hatbox of WIPs (works in progress), so I imagine I'll be doing a bit of sewing this month as well!

Today is Day 1 of my exploration into the creative unknown. It's been a busy year of homeschooling and other goings on and art has been pushed into the dark recessives of the file 'I'll get to it sometime.' Well 'sometime' is here.

I'm working on a project. I'll post later tonight or tomorrow about my first day of art. In the meantime, I was too excited to not do a few things, so I completed these pants for the little one. 

 

She and grandma had sewn them by hand while we were in Atlanta  (shark material picked out to commemorate our trip to the aquarium of course!) but I added the elastic and strengthened the seams. It's a little bit of creating, don't you think?

What will you create for Day 1 of Creative Vibrations? Feel free to post a link to your creations below so I can visit! If you're just visiting now, see this post for what I'm up to and how you can play along. TTFN!