With the exception of the label, my Stretching Art and Tradition 12: Famous Pairs piece is done. I finished beading the spider web yesterday and got the center of the flowers done. Before I stopped last night, I had hand-stitched the top and bottom binding to the back and had cut out, pressed and hand-stitched [...]
Continue reading about Life and Death – Finished, Next up – Chairs
This evening was spent working on the background for Life and Death. It’s not super important what the background looks like at this point, as it’s just the first layer – my foundation, if you will. It’s not quite done. I have sections to piece together yet, but I’ve done as much as I can [...]
I finished up Pamela’s crow book last yesterday and got it in the mail to Annie this morning. I’m so pleased with the way it turned out. I haven’t been feeling well this week, so I didn’t get any work done on it until I sat down to finish it yesterday, after cleaning up the [...]
As weeks go, this has been a very, very unpleasant one. I had to force myself in the studio this evening and was literally counting beads to attempt to redirect my thoughts. I switched the ipod over to playing all of my Train CD’s and after a few songs and a good deal of beading, [...]
I’ve continued to bead on the crow, in between finishing up the computer. I’m 2/3’d of the way done adding beads to his body. They add sparkle, which every self-respecting crow needs. I think I mentioned that I covered the cathedral transfer with silk gauze and stitched it down. The picture of that is here [...]
