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Mixed Media Monday

September 29, 2014September 29, 2014 mud&stringLeave a comment

MOJO

I haven’t posted any mixed media stuff in a while, mostly because I was in sort of a creative slump, totally underwhelmed by all of my efforts to kickstart a new project. I suppose you could call it “just going through the motions”. But, I kept on creating and you know what? It seems I got my mojo back! I actually did the “fake it til you make it” thing and got my “creative feet” back under me. If you’re a friend of Jimmy or a friend of Bill, you’re probably familiar with this process and have used it a few times yourself.

WEEK 40 THE DOCUMENTED LIFE

This week’s prompt was to use three colors you don’t normally use. I chose orange, yellow and brown and when I started laying down the first layer, I thought it was the ugliest thing ever. But I kept on working with it, adding some three dimensional doodads and some stickers that continued the color scheme. Then, suddenly, my project didn’t seem so ugly to me anymore. In fact, I kinda liked it, I kinda liked it a lot!

Acrylic paint, spray inks, stencils, stickers, a bit of washi tape, hand drawn flowers that I colored with gel pens and cut out, homemade stickers and a doodled circle fold out

Sorry you have to stand on your head to see them. 😕

*MOMM

Here’s a look at a project I’m doing on my own. It’s not quite finished. I think it needs doodads.

*My own mixed media

To see things in the seed, that is genius. Lao Tzu

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Wednesday! Again??, Booklove and It’s Nice To Be A Diva

June 25, 2014 mud&stringLeave a comment

ON THE NEEDLES

Wavy Garden Shawl is presently OTN, but not for long. (heavy sigh). I saw that somehow, what I call the backbone, where a pattern calls for a yarnover, knit, YO, is wonky, off a couple of stitches. So I suppose you could say it’s developed scoliosis. I hope I can take it back a few rows and reknit instead of frogging the whole shebang and restarting. Dang.

BOOKLOVE

I finished Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Monday and am just as enamored as I was when I first read it, lo those 45 or so years ago. So, I’m giving away my age (you do the math), who cares??? In my head I’m 16. When does a person become a grownup anyway? OK, back to booklove. I started an smazing book right on the heels of Mutiny – The Snow Queen. I don’t have the author’s name right at my fingertips, but I’ll get it in here before I post. Take a minute check it out here. Michael Cunningham, that’s the guy’s name.

THE DOCUMENTED LIFE PROJECT

Here are a couple of *MOMMs that I’ve working on:

Curlicue Tree

Because I Like It #5

TDL Week 26 Challenge

Add a Bible verse or a line from your favorite book that inspires you

Mine is Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

ONE OF THE GRANDS

Babydiva

I think it was a reward for behaving in the store. She’s going to be a big sister here in about seven weeks!

Oh my gosh! That skin!!!!

Linking with Tami, Ginny and Frontier Dreams.

*My Own Mixed Media

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Mother Teresa

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The Documented Life Project – Playing Catch Up

May 22, 2014May 22, 2014 mud&stringLeave a comment

CATCHING UP

I’ve been promising to catch up my TDL Art Journal photos and now is the time. Here goes:

Add a flap to your flap

Collage something you recycled

Make a list of the things that make you you

Draw, photograph or collage a bird onto.your page

This one is especially special to me. I gave my mother the hummingbird magnet several years ago and it was on her refrigerator up until she passed away and my oldest grandbaby painted the picture of the ducks as a gift to me.

Cut up a magazine -add

Use a rubber stamp in a new way

Add embroidery or embroidery floss to your page -no floss? Use thread

I printed out my favorite poem, gave it a watercolor wash and sewed it into my journal. Then, I added a pocket to contain a vintage handmade hankie that belonged to one of my favorite aunts.

So that’s it so far. A new challenge will be posted Saturday morning, so stay tuned!

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

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Word Doc

April 17, 2014 mud&stringLeave a comment

DOCUMENT ME, PLEASE

After reading Pixelknit’s Ponderings and admiring her pages, I’ve decided to join in The Documented Life, a yearlong journal/art project from Art to the Fifth. OK, my confession is: I’m not artistic. I can’t draw or paint and have always colored outside the lines, but I love creating things and if I can do something in an unexpected way, all the better. Also, journaling is not my strong suit, but ask me one question a day or give me an idea and I’m off and running. Also, I love buying journals, all that blank space makes me feel like anything is possible, brand new and open to anything. Listen to me, waxing positively dreamy.