What Kind of Blog Am I

I started this blog as an Interior Designer....I've shared all my design portfolio, and quite frankly, I've changed my style over the past year(s)

I shared some of my "crafty stuff"...my photography....my art....but, not really myself...I tend to hold the world at arm's length....

Although some are quite interesting and pretty, I don't usually like to grab images, or even scan the images that I've cut out of magazines and saved over the years (I have a couple of dozen binders, overflowing with wonderful photos, recipes, craft ideas, art instruction..you name it, I've got it.

I don't comment on current events....I don't throw the "f" bomb in now-and-then, just to show how "f"ing cool I am...

I love fashion...I love history...I love music...I love good writing...

I feel I've "been there, done that, and bought the t-shirt"...so, now what?

Maybe tomorrow, I'll grab my camera and head for the hills...maybe tomorrow, I'll master the art of french macaroons with raspberry-rose buttercream....maybe tomorrow, I'll write an entire chapter for my novel......maybe tomorrow, I'll finish that watercolor...maybe tomorrow, I'll make beautiful hand-made picture frames....

I recently dislocated my thumb...(and that was the GOOD one)...I have a brace on it...I have another brace for the other thumb and wrist...this pretty much slows me down...but...maybe tomorrow....

I do know that I don't want to be BORING...to a Gemini, that is a fate worse than death...

so...........................

Tune in and see what tomorrow brings...

Yellow Roses From My "Hunny"

Actually, I often refer to him as "Dr. Bobby Hunny" (mostly, just Robert)...my husband of 28 years, as of yesterday, gave me my favorite roses...yellow....

As a young girl, growing up on a farm in Kansas, my Mama always put them in my room on my birthday, as we had a yellow rose bush....brings back loving memories....

LOVE TRULY DOES MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND...AND ROUND...AND ROUND

Backwards...Opus...

This is the end result of weeks of hard work...I have everything backwards here...(it would seem I'll never get this right)....I now have my left thumb in a brace, and my right wrist and thumb in a brace..Didn't do the left thumb from making this guy...my guy was opening a door just as I was going out on the other side...dislocated it..gah!!!

He looks so different, when photographed indoors......................

At a certain point, I ripped off his bottem "feathers", as they were too bright, and I hated them...

See what I mean...I also covered his white "nose crest"..didn't like that either....In fact, I nearly chucked the entire project, but the gallery owner, Sonia, came and talked me down...

I used several shades of silk....fused together with a product called "Heat Bond"...in order to stiffen it, then cut hundreds of "feathers" and glued them on...hundreds...and hundreds.

I made his "base" from silk..(don't know why, as it didn't show), but it was lighter than other fabrics...I sewed it to buckram, and then, stuffed fiberfill in him (sort of "trapunto" style)..then, quilted him..to keep the fiberfill from falling...Then, I sewed him on the canvas using copper wire..cutting myself alot...Hey, this wasn't easy..

How to make an eye...backwards, of course

His "pupil" is a velvet-covered button I made..then, I glue Swaroski (sp?) crystals to make the "catchlights" (that's a photography term for the light in an eye) This shows the "fusion" process...This was not an easy project...

The whole point of this is explained on the Stinger Studio website...go - read - enjoy-

http://www.stingerstudio.com