Another soy wax piece. The flower is actually made with a potato masher!

Although I actually have been dying today, this isn't one of them. I did this one a few weeks ago. It was done with soy wax. How much fun and how much easier than real wax! It truly does just wash down the drain with VERY hot water. Pro-chem has the details and safety info such as flash point, so I won't go into details here. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave me a comment and I will respond.

In a never ending need to not do what I should be doing (which is working on my C&G certification), I decided to try my hand at felting a head. Here is my first attempt. It was so much easier than I thought, which, of course, now means that I want to do another. One isn't in focus (I took it on one of those credit card size cameras), but the other picture is in focus but the colors are not right.

Actually as a family project we are stripping the wallpaper from one of my son's room to so that we can paint it. I think that is what I am really trying to get out of doing!

I made this one last night! Isn't he fun! He doesn't have a name either - just a label - the fairy bear! He started out as a sheep from Ayala Talpai's book, but didn't want to be "sheepish". He is holding a wand made of tyvek, yarn and painted hot glue. I will try to take a better picture of him later.

I took a class from Sheir Serafini during the Fall. What a wonderful teacher, artist, and person! Unfortunately, my camera with a macro function is on the blink so the picture isn't very clear. Iwill try to retake it! (Robin, here is another one that I have recently finished!

My dear friend, Robin, checked out my blog and told me that I have "abandoned" my beading friends and the beading world! I am posting some of my beadwork to show her that is just isn't true. Admittedly, I don't spend all my time beading as I have been known to do. I am still doing pieces. Here is a piece that I don't particularly like. I think that I should have stopped with the embellishment about three hours earlier. Now, I think that it will never make a necklace amulet bag as it was intended, but maybe a Christmas ornament!

Here is a close up of his face. I still haven't named him. What is a good name for such a loveable dragon? If you can tell, I tried to cut out the messy art room behind him!

This was one of my Christmas presents. Actually, it was a lot of wool roving and 24 pages of instructions on how to make him. He is my second needlefelted doll (my bear was the first). Isn't he cute???? I just love him and it was way easy. It was a kit from Grafton Fibers.

Here are details of the scarf.

Here is the almost full scarf! I love it, which I have decided is the most important person to please when making art! The base is wetfelted in seperate organic pieces which I then pieced together with my embellisher. I then took a little roving, pencil roviing, and some non-twisted wool thread which I first needlefelted in place and then embellished down.

Here are two more pieces that I felted. The little bear is a silly little thing, but was the first tree dimensional piece that I did. The other piece is a wine sleeve that I made from a wetfelted mat.

Here is a piece that I wet felted.

Another needlefelted piece. I was trying to illutrate that I actually can do a piece that is very controlled!

I haven't been posting in over a month. I have been working but on just "stuff". Here is a flower that I needlefelted. I have been doing a lot of wet felting and now quite a bit of needlefelting. I will be teaching needlefelting next month at Fiber on a Whim (www.fiberonawhim.com) . This is soo easy but way cool.

I took a two day workshop on Shibori andIndigo dying with Linda Campbell at Fiber on a Whim this weekend. Linda was a fantastic teacher. She went over making a vat (we made two), history of both (including a slide show). It was wonderful. I will try to put up a few more examples later.

Another one of my pieces! You can just wash the soy wax out, much easier than real wax!

I took a two day soy wax batik class at Fiber on a Whim. Very easy and a lot of fun.

Block of Seagulls was my submission to the First Fast Friday Challenge. The idea behind the challenge is that on the last Friday of the month a theme and a design element is posted. You then have a week to design and complete a small format piece of fiber art.
The name was my friend Rebecca's idea. Yes, I love the '80's.

My New Adventure

No picture for this, but I wanted to document that I have signed up for the City & Guild, Level 3 Patchwork and Quiting Certification Course with Linda Kremshall's DesignMatters http://www.lindakemshall.com. I can't wait. I hear that this is a very challenging program but isn't that what it is all about - challenging yourself as an artist. It seems that every time I open a book that "Wows" me, the author/artist has been trained or is a teacher in one of these courses.

This is my Bead Embroidery doll! It is the first doll I ever made. I took a class by the very wonderful Anne Hesse, a wonderful ladie and teacher. I actually did this doll over a year ago, but I did want to "document" it.