Showing posts with label felt trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label felt trees. Show all posts

Monday, 8 December 2008

Snowy Tree Therapy





Some days don't run as according to plan as one would hope.


In the past 24 hours I have attempted to make a loaf of bread in the breadmaker without the stirring paddle inserted, which gave the house a delicious scent of rice pudding, but did not produce anything remotely resembling a loaf nor anything else at all edible.


I then put my blender wand in the cake mix instead of my electric hand whisk and wandered why I couldn't cream the butter and sugar very well.


I also had a less than satisfactory time at work for one reason and another (NOT this time due to my dippiness).


Anyway I have had some stitching therapy tonight and made another brooch which I enjoy doing. I wonder if I can sell them? Maybe I could just do this all day long and stay more sane instead of beckoning the early onset dimentia with quite the enthusiasm I did today...

Oh yes and then I played around with Photoshop (must get an instruction book) and sketched this tree. Must also get more blonde highlights because I can't remember how I did it.

Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Jack Frost also draws trees....

Frustrated at not being able to stitch creatively, being a bit bogged down by the practicalities of school play costumes, curtain making and Christmas preparations amidst the usual work, kids and, surprisingly, mopping the kitchen floor yesterday (round of applause please), I popped into the garden just now to take some frosty pictures.

Jack Frost left some doodles on the patio!

The frost on the flowers is beautiful, but the bulbs are struggling through all the same.
But this large mouth blown bauble hanging in the kitchen window had a hot molten appearance this morning when lit up by the dawn.





Later on....At work this morning I met someone who was quite inspirational and reminded me not to get too bogged down with mundane stuff. On the way home I resolved to do something with these landscape trees which insist on bugging me to do something with them every time I pass them! Out came the embellisher and the machine and I have at least made a start which has made me feel much better. It was quite a quick process really and I have still got time to do some jobs before I pick up the children. Anyway this will be hand stitched next and is small enough to carry in my bag for an available moment.

....agggh that's better....

Isn't it weird how an unfulfilled creative urge can really bring you down?






And then....I played with http://www.wordle.net/ and used the words of my Blog to create this:
...more fun!