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First you spread this special watered down paint over a damp cloth and then place objects on top. Expose to sunlight or a lamp until dry and the cloth under the objects will be white. I used white cotton interlock for the fabric and my objects were some small plants I had pressed. I framed the ~5″ x 7″ piece of cloth and hung it on my wall. I thought it looked pretty cool.

I spent my Friday night using my new sewing machine to make this masterpiece. (Those are my husband’s hands modeling the toy, just so you don’t think I have man hands, and my dog Wiley demonstrating it.)

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Paintings:

Here’s some random little paintings from last month. They’re about 8″x10″. Most of them were done when I was tired. Especially the lavender one. It’s called, “Um, This is the Color of the Shirt I’m Wearing” The cat one is inspired by my sister’s cat. It’s called, “Dancing Rufus.” Her cat doesn’t really dance, but if it did, there would be some major money in that.

Fish:

This is one of those little plastic “stained glass” things you get at the craft store, that you fill in with the special “stained glass paint.” Yeah, they’re like for Kindergarten. ….Maybe 1st grade. I took the photo with the fish on my light box.

Wooden Box:

This was a an abandoned project that I started quite a while ago. I finally finished it. It’s a little wood box from the Wal-Mart crafts section. About 3″ x 4″ x 2″. It’s painted it and modge podged on some flower petals I had dried. Then I covered the outside in an acrylic varnish. The inside is black.

So just what have I been doing on my, more than a month long, haitus from blogging, you ask? Have I been making any art at all?

My next few posts will attempt to fill you in…….if ya wanna know.

EMBROIDERY

I’ve been doing a lot of teaching myself to hand embroider and getting my technique just right to create nice letters with minimal fabric pulling around the letters. I’ve also been playing around with tie dye. Below is a picture of 4 tie dyed hand embroidered onesies that I did for the Magdalene Home. It’s a home in Medford where teen girls can live, who are either pregnant and/or have children and have no where else to go. It’s kind of interesting how I even found out about this place. I remember Jim and I were on a drive and I was in a pensive mood. I was thinking about things that I want to do with my life, and so on. I was asking God to give me some guidance, or something. I closed my eyes and I got sort of, and image. Pretty vague, but all I knew is that it was a place where pregnant women, who where in need of something, would come. Later, out of curiosity I started Googling to see what kind of organizations there were like that, in my area, and that’s when I discovered the Magdalene home. I didn’t think much about it for almost a year until I started making these onesies. I got an itch to donate or help out, and making things for people has always been my favorite way of showing my love, so I emailed the director and asked if I could make some onesies for the babies that live there. She was very excited and said “of course.” She invited me to come by for a tour and to hang out with the girls and teach them how to make them. I was super excited, and last month my sister and I drove to Medford and got a tour of their place and dropped off these onesies. (I have them wrapped so you can’t see that whole thing.) I hope they liked them.