Emotional Hotspots . .

That's my "inspiration for the week.  I'm not finding it too inspiring!  It's not easy to identify emotions, and even more difficult to express them through my art - on words, etc!

Oh, well - I'll think about it!

Inspiration for the week

So what if the weather is cloudy and cold?  So what if the groundhog saw his shadow?  This is my inspiration card for the week.

                                                   

So - off I went on a walk around the neighborhood.  Not only did that exercise mind & spirit, i found a really good piece of 'lawn debris" to use in my art work.  So - watch for upcoming picture!

This weeks "Inspiration"

This week's card for Art Inspiration:
The idea is to de-clutter!  Both your physical workspace & your mental one.,  As most of ypou know, that's pretty hard for me.  I'm both a pack-rat and a procrastinator!  So I'm trying to get rid of one box of "stuff" a week.  And since my life is not too complex now, I'm trying to energize both mind and body by exerecising a bit.  We'll see how this works!

Art Lottery

Just for fun I participated in an Art Lottery Post card Swap on the Fiber Art Traders Yahoo Group.
The instructions I received were:

Set A: Start with a base fabric that has shapes on it (some easily recognizable shape like hearts, bells, hands, stars, etc), Add a skinny line, Add a fat line, Piece something, Add curvy lines

Set B: Piece your base fabric, Applique something on, Do a fancy embroidery stitch, Add a sketch, Add a fat line

Set C: Gather or corrugate your base fabric, Pleat or origami fold something, Add an ethnic element, Add a different type of fabric/paper, Add single thread stitching

Here are the bases:

And works in progress:

And finished!

Nurturing - -

This is my creativity inspiration for the week. But the real nurturing must be done by phone. My daughter, Deb, and her wonderful life partner, Matt, went home to find burst pipes and a flooded house.

I wish I could be there to help and comfort. But from this distance all I can do is wring my hands & repeat "POOR DEB. POOR MATT". See her blog - link at the right to see more.

On a happier note - she and Matt had just been visiting here to celebrate my husband, Jack's, 80th birthday. They prepared a wonderful dinner. Lasagna, meatballs, peppers & sausages. YUMMY. And the topper - angel food cake and vanilla ice cream drizzled with DARK CHOCOLATE BALSAMIC VINEGAR. Delicious.