4/52

I actually finished these early last week, but my folks were in town so I didn't get photographs taken and put up until today.

First I finished a page in my altered book. It's a hardback tome of plays from Marlowe. I liked the picture I worked with last week so much that I decided to use a larger one to highlight this first page. Text highlighted below.







Next I did a couple of greeting cards. Simple for the most part, though I had a lot of fun creating the diagonal stripes on the one with strips of paper.

3/52

This was actually a frustrating week to complete something, despite my having a lot of time to work. Most of my crafting time as of late is put towards knitting my Quinn bag, but it is a lot of knitting and still only a third completed. Hopefully I'll have it as my completed piece coming up here.

The project I was going to use this week is a surrealist piece I did during my independent study art class. However on the drive home, a can of racquetballs rolled over the piece and managed to turn it into an unflattering mess. I was not pleased as it is by far my favorite piece that I have done thus far.

So instead I offer up an ATC. It's for the Night Court series on Swapbot, this is House Eglantine.



Materials used: Printout,watercolor pencils, water pen, tissue paper, modge podge, gold pen, gold charm, several ribbon fibers.

2/52

Dave gave me a skein of gorgeous hand-dyed worsted wool for Christmas. I wanted to use a simple pattern to show off the colors so I modified the Easy Lace Stashbuster Scarf by Donna MacLean.

I love the way to colors move back and forth across the pattern






I also worked on expanding the shrine I made last week and my sweater. Pictures to follow soon I'm sure!

Project 1/52

This one is actually a project I was doing for Swap Bot. It's an Assembalage Shrine using the themes of love/rocks/plants/gardens. So I used a skinny cow cheese container as my base and made kind of a hidden garden. Pictures below =)

Finishing Projects

That's my goal for this year: to finish one creative endeavor a week. I have a number of projects started and a few more half completed, but I'd like to start finishing things. That doesn't mean that every week I'll finish a big project, but by the end of the year I'd like to have finished 52 pieces of art.