Enough Already......

We had more snow! Yippee!  That was a bit of sarcasm. Actually the snow is not so bad, if you don't count the fact that our road is last on the "to be plowed list". Here is what happens if you let your insurance lapse and you can't get your vehicle out on the road regularly.

We decided it was high time to clear the snow off the roof of the trailer.

I am surprised the roof hasn't caved in yet.

This proved to much more strenuous than I anticipated.   Luckily for me Terry broke the second rake and now I am taking a break and making some lunch. Much less strenuous.

At least the view is good from up here on the roof!

Fire Flowers and Not-So-Happy Fowl

 Well...I pulled out some wool roving and spent an hour or two playing and this is what happened. A flower was born. Not quite finished I don't think. Stamens perhaps or even a tiny fairy nestled in the depths of the petals.

Fire Lily

My youngest son was wanting some licensed merchandise...
which I do try to discourage as much as possible. I decided to indulge him in my own way. Hence the Not-so-happy Fowl.

Well that was fun.















If you love Dr. Seuss check this out.

Weekend Wandering

I am gathering momentum to get to work on some smaller projects that my smaller space will allow. I have located some supplies in our mountains of boxes, and picked up some new felting needles. Lets see what happens.

Happy New Year!

May the coming year be full of love light and laughter. May all your fears be replaced by a trust........that all is as it should be.  Love and blessings for 2012.

Relocated.....

Been awhile since I posted here. We, the family and I have relocated and are in the process of building a house. Hence most of my creative tools are packed away aside from the tools required to creatively build a home.  I have taken up knitting in the mean time and have been knitting some hats. Knitting is a portable sort of activity and the tools are compact.

Inspiration is all around me though in our beautiful new mountain valley and I can't wait to get back at some felting soon. Prairie girl is now a valley girl.

Blog and Etsy sale to raise funds for Japan

Wanting to help in some small way, a group of crafty bloggers have organized a sale of  handmade goods with all of the proceeds going to Save The Children's efforts in Japan. Check it out here...
Crafting for Courage

As for me I am quietly felting away learning as I go. I nuno felted a couple of scarves.....the shrinkage still amazes me. I also did a satchel type of bag by felting around a resist. Lots of fun. Here are some picsof the scarves. The white is merino on silk chiffon.

The green and brown was an attempt to limit shrinkage by leaving parts of the chiffon bare. i also used some alpaca giving the wool parts a very hairy....mossy look.

Here is the resist wet felted bag.



Computer Manga

Hi!
Today I couldn't decide between doing a post on microsoft paint or manga so I'm going to do both.

Lately I've been drawing manga and giving (selling) it to my friends. I thought it would be cool to post something on that. But I also want to post about paint on computers so here is my computer manga person.

Trust me, it's a lot less pointy drawn regular.
Belive it or not I made this picture with the paint feature on any computer.
This one I did with a pencil and paper.

This isn't one of my best, but it's a picture.
Bye!
sincerly,
S

P.S. Click here if you want to learn how to draw manga. Video is by Mark Crilly.