play happy

in order to push through this "limbo thing" i've been going through, i decided that the best thing i could do for myself was to stop thinking, and just start doing.  so, i went to all of those secret-stash-spots in my studio and started pulling out things......things that i loved, in colors that i loved.  i knew that i probably wouldn't use everything, but just the act of pawing through my supplies began to inspire me......

and before i knew it, i had created this!  

i cut apart some chair tassels and whimsical brads and used them for the center of the flowers, and then just layered some of my favorite fabrics  (the yellow layer in the middle is actually a piece of card stock) and did a little distressing on the edges to give it more texture.  and then i decided with all of that wonderful dimension in the flowers, that the letters looked flat, so i used my 4B pencil to add some shading, and to my surprise, the pencil worked great on muslin!  i also discovered that pan pastels can be used on fabric (i added a bit of color around the edges of the fabric).

but the most important discovery i made for myself is this:

stop thinking.  

start playing more.

keep playing more.  

play every day. 

 and play happy.

xox

reach high

reach high....

reach higher than you've ever reached.....

stand on a super-tall-ladder

if you need to ........

and stretch your go-go-gadget arms

as far as they'll stretch.....

and after you've grabbed a handful of stars.....

keep reaching for the moon.....

you can find more info about this mini doodle quiltie here in my etsy shop

confession time

well, i must confess that i didn't get very far with my studio re-org yesterday.....as a matter of fact, if i'm brutally-honest-oprah-tell-all:

i only worked for about an hour.

i decided to make this mini doodle quiltie instead. my studio is still a disaster, but i figure that if i had taken the time to clean it yesterday, it would already be a mess today....so see how much time i saved myself?!

this mini rainbow is in my etsy shop here.

grow strong

this is another little doodle quiltie that i created using inspiration from one of my journals. i'm always looking for projects where i can combine lots of different things that i love to do, and these doodle quilties seem to fit the mold!

this quiltie is a little smaller than the others, but still has lots of hand-stitching, beading, hand-carved stamping, and i even snuck some of my painted dryer sheets into the leaf layers....

grow strong!

you can read more about this quiltie here in my etsy shop

be you

if God had wanted me otherwise,

He would have created me otherwise.

johann von goethe

this doodle quiltie is listed in my etsy shop here!

you have wings

this is the project that i was working on the other day, and needed to go hunting at the fabric store for the perfect "wing fabric" (and now i have lots of other new fabrics in my stash thanks to that trip for just one fabric!). this is a modified version of a doodle i did in my journal a while back......i've changed up the colors a bit......

and added lots of pink, white, blue and black beads....

and since i did everything by hand, there's a little reminder on the back!

i've listed this little art quiltie in my etsy shop.....you can read more about it here!