Looking Up and Down

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Miriam Rogers

Helena asked if we had any Look up/down comparisons in our collection. I found these.

I can remember feeling so cold and wet, having a snow day at home from work and just wishing, however beautiful, that it would all go away.
I won’t mention the heat today…

This lovely meme is inspired by Helena. Thank you, and thanks for the idea of compare and contrast. This meme just gets better.

Index Card A Day

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Miriam Rogers

We are almost at the end of this 61 day project. I have really loved making a little bit of art every day for the last couple of months and to see so much beautiful art on Daisy Yellows ICAD blog.

Here are my cards from 1st to 12th July

I had a play with some lines and colours, Kandinsky style and then cut the page up into cards for the prompt for a few days as I knew I wouldn’t be able to do much at the beginning of the month.

I had a card with a few cats on, I really liked the colours and shapes and wanted to use it in this project. I cut the card up and backstitched his whiskers with some embroidery thread. Paper beads, I just love making them and I find it very therapeutic.

Felting silk onto wool felt makes a gorgeous texture. Purple and Green a Colour of Summer prompt and I rescued the little post it notes from ~~Bens~~ someones bin!

I like these aperture cards unfortunately the picture doesn’t do them justice. The red and yellow linen for the Summer of Colour prompt

Daisy Yellow has some beautiful art cards on her blog if you have a moment, take a look.

I’ve looked at clouds

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Miriam Rogers

…from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all

By the wonderful Joni Mitchel How can she be 71?, I’m shocked.

Anyhow, a couple of evenings ago I was sitting in the garden watching the clouds. I was thinking of Rinda’s Scavenger Hunt and bemoaning the fact that since she published her list I haven’t seen one shape in the clouds. Then all of a sudden I saw this boat with a mast and small flag!

Paul saw it too.

Then I laughed and said that the whole sky was full of popcorn. He raised his eyebrows a bit (a lot actually)

and then…an elephant came into view.

it is on it’s side, I see the trunk, a couple of legs and it’s small tail?

“I think you better stop with the Mojito’s” he said.

How’s your Scavenger Hunt going?
I’m looking at the sky and thinking of you…

Project 52 Gallery 13

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Miriam Rogers

Gallery 13 at Project 52 is Layers/Stacks

Tell me I’m not the only one who has stacks of stacks and stacks of piles…of stuff?

My favourite stack

I love logs

However they are stacked

Stacks of reed making a thatch

I have rather a huge pile of books

And ever increasing piles of fabric

This was a great prompt, I am looking forward to seeing what Layers/Stacks others have.

Thanks Bella.

The Summer of Colour

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Miriam Rogers

The colours chosen for week six and the last week of this lovely challenge are Sage and Sepia.

One of my lovely ice cream dishes is Sepia in colour

and I have sage growing in the garden so I had a play.

I was in a lovely town near to us and found a couple of interesting things in various shops. The ladies behind the counter were so lovely and helpful and intrigued by the challenge. They were happy to let me take pictures of the colours I was looking for without making a purchase. Well that’s not exactly true. I did buy something totally unrelated to the subject. I am so weak when confronted with something pretty.

My favourite fabric & wool shop also happens to be in this town so I bought a couple of pieces of fabric and some ribbon to make the bunting.

In another shop were some fabulous wall hangings. I would love to give you the link for them but it isn’t working. I know you would love them too so I’ll try to describe them to you. I only took a photo of a small part of one of them so that I could make my index card with it.

So a wall hanging 5ft x 3ft. Based on a Kandinsky painting: concentric circles

Each circle and square was crocheted wool chains. It was crocheted with a small hook, I looked very closely! Every part of every shape was beautifully shaped with the chain to follow the lines in the pattern. The wall hanging that I liked was £260.00 so needless to say it is still hanging in the shop.
Here is my index card before I did anything with it. If you click on the picture you will be able to see some detail. I haven’t finished my card yet. I am having to limit my time on the computer because it is just tooo hot in my room.