4x4 Friday - Spring Garden

Here is my entry for this week's challenge.  For the background, I wove together two magazine pictures.  The border is silver metallic tape that's been embossed with a stylus and painted with acrylic paint.  The letters were cut from random magazines.  I covered the whole thing with clear embossing powder and blasted it with a heat gun.  Thanks for looking!  Now I'm off to play in my garden...

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Follow Your Bliss

Joseph Campbell was fond of telling his students to "follow their bliss" as a guide to finding what they wanted to do in life.  I always loved this piece of advice, but could never narrow down exactly what my "bliss" was.  So many things interest me, none of which are able to put food on the table or a roof over my head.  So I dabble with a zillion different activities when I'm not at my "day job."  But I don't think any of these things are my "bliss."

I was talking with my drumming teacher and he suggested that a good starting point would be to find the thing that makes time stop for me and do that.  A lot.  And then I immediately knew:  art and drumming.  When I'm immersed in a piece of art, hours can go by without my knowing it.  When I'm practicing my drumming, it's the same thing.  The next hurdle is allowing myself to do those things without being distracted by all those mundane "shoulds" and "oughts."

So what about you?  What makes time stop for you?  What is your bliss?

Three Muses Challenge - Maps

Here is my entry for the maps challenge.  I used an old CD as the support and a map of the moon.  I've been getting into the steampunk thing recently, so I guess you can see some influence there.  This was fun!

Huzzah the Quilt!

The Quilt...finally finished

This thing has been lying around my workroom literally for years (yes, I must admit that I start a lot of things and often don't finish them...)  However, this weekend, I dug it out and actually got it done.  So happy.  One less thing in the workroom, one more functional piece of art being used!

4 x 4 Friday - Ornate

I LOVED making this!  Sorry the picture's a little caddy-whompus - I haven't quite gotten all the technical stuff down yet...

April in Paris

I can't think of Paris without thinking of Gene Kelley.  The background was made by pouring Citra-Solv onto the pages of an old National Geographic.  If you haven't tried this, I recommend it, just for the mind-blowing experience of looking at the results. 

Sunday Postcard Art

The Easter Bunny's off-season job?