More Little Journal Pages...

 

Still having extreme trouble with formatting. Images keep popping up in different places.

Finished My Little Art Journal

Next project: make my usual Teesha Moore-style  handbound  art journal with the Fabriano watercolor paper and the bookcloth I bought awhile ago. In the meantime, here are pages from the  Little Art Journal..

Pins!

Loving my Sarah Ogren "Twin Cat" broach (brouch? brooch?  pin!) that I bought for myself  a couple of days ago....nothing I was particularly looking for or even wanted to buy...just looking at links from Cathy Cullis's blog and randomly clicking on other blogs, "cuz that's the way I am." I don't even really wear jewelry anymore here in Wisconsin--not going anywhere, not seeing anyone, and all.  I just wear jeans and a tee shirt and sweater everyday (usually the same ones) and then change to my workout pants before I go to the "health" club.

I will have to wear all the squirrel pins that my husband gave me for xmas and my birthday along with this pin and perhaps my many acorn pins together at the same time. Oh, and all the other pins I have accumulated, made, inherited over the past several decades.  What do I do with all of them packed into drawers and jewelry boxes and shoeboxes and dresser tops and display shelves ?

Recent Musings

Loved loved loved this film by Jane Campion. It is such a gorgeously directed  movie. But what I really was taken by were all the scenes of Fanny stitching and creating her garments, the exquisite closeups, the attention  to the details of the sewing. And the recurrent use of white...and light. And I loved the little sister "Toots."(Oh yeah, and then  there was John Keats and his poetry...to reacquaint oneself with!)...

I just received the most wonderful artist book that I bought from Cathy Cullis in the U.K. I've been following her blog for awhile, after seeing a few of her pieces on one of my favorite artist's blogs Ornamental. Her artwork is very quirky and so in tune with my kind of non-mainstream art. I really wanted to buy one of her little dollies, but alas, they were all immediately sold out. Above  is the little book I bought...

We are supposed to get a "big" snowstorm tonight/tomorrow. Even the "health" club posted signs saying to check their website in the morning to see if they would be closed.

I always worry about my daughter driving into Chicago when there is bad weather. Snow days are fun...if you still get paid for taking the day(s) off work. And don't have to go out of your house for any reason.

 

 Finally finished (if you could call it that) my first "fingerless mitt/handwarmer" .  There are so many mistakes/holes/ wrongness. I looked at videos on knitting "the thumb" and none of them seem to address doing the thumb that I was trying to do.  But I just wasn't getting some of  the initial instructions for beginning the thumb from the pattern in the book.   For these pictures, on right hand and reversed on left hand, I had to take a crochet hook and try to lamely closed up all the holes, etc. If only I could photoshop younger, unwrinkled hands/fingers into these shots....sigh. and blah.

 

The Last Three Pages/Spreads of My Current Art Journal...

until I decide to add another signature to this recycled book cover art journal...because there is plenty more room in the shabby/deteriorating spine for more! And I'm already on to the next one...a tiny little thing.