Finished one wrist warmer!

And decided to add extra color to fix a mess up.

Zen doodling

This is the best way to relax.

Knitting hand warmers

I'm finally knitting wrist/hand warmers.  This is a project I've wanted to start for years, and I finally feel confident enough in my knitting skills to do it :)

It's finally getting cold outside, and crafting/painting/knitting is one of my favorite ways to stay warm.

Blast from the past

This painting was done a long time ago, but just thought I'd share it finally today.

Watercolors and paper towels

Today I'm exploring the creation of flowers for adding to mixed media paintings.  This started off as a paper towel to wipe off my paint dish, but I noticed the colorful smears on the paper towel would look nice as a flower...

August Bags

Here are all the bags I made over this first beautiful weekend in August:

I've been working on them all for some time.  The small bags were all started last summer when I was putting together bags to sell at the annual pride fest here in Fredericton.  Of course I made so so many and just didn't have time to complete all of them so now I get to play with the designs a little bit more- its so fun.  The one in the middle and below is a bag that I starts a long time ago- another landscape collage bag.

and the back of the landscape bag:

Mike thought these circles looked like fruit!  Truth be told I was just playing with shapes.

 Joelly is so sweet and offered to model some of the bags for me:

He thinks having a serious expression makes the bags look more artsy..

Mermaid Painting Complete!

So I finally completed my mermaid painting.  Each time I look at it I get the urge to take it off the wall and keep fixing things I see that could be improved but for now its finished.

I had a lot of fun with it and I am so proud that -what feels like a year- its finally done.  Below the mermaid painting is another painting that I've been working on for much longer.  It is slowly making its way towards being finished but its no where near done.  Still I like to post paintings in progress so there you have it.