Accomplishing Projects

It's been two weeks since my last post.

It's been one of those times where you meet yourself coming

and going - due date upon due date.  

One of my goals has been to finish my necklace from

Karla's Cottage Bird Song II 

I've worn it twice this week and have had several people

stopped me and make lovely comments.  

Two reasons I am delighted with my necklace -

a completed project and I LIKE it.

Another project I have recently marked off My To Do list

was Karla's Cottage Faerie Book Page Swap.   

My Garden Fairy is me at age two.  I am a paper doll fairy with jointed/movable arms and legs.  I have to be treated with extreme care as my arms & legs are made out of paper and
will wear out or tear easily.

The reverse side is a digital creation by me

"I'm FAIRY certain that

given a cape & tiara

I just might be able to 

save the world."

(The fairy is ready to accept her tiara and leave

the woodlands to save the world)

My dryer is buzzing, my floors need swept, I have more art swap projects to finish & my gardens need weeding... 

Hope you're having a full & lovely day too!

Bird Song II, Part 3

In an earlier post I shared my Bird Song II swap creations.  

These are the swaps I received.

In the SING banner swap there were four different groups with four participants in each group. You received one of the letters you were assigned as well as three other letters to complete your

SING banner.

This is my group 

Carol created the letter "S"

Laurie created the letter "I"

Lynn created the letter "N"

I created the letter "G"

* SING *

Using decorated clothes pins and ribbon,

I strung my beautiful SING banner

I was the recipient of Maxine's gorgeous Matchbox swap

  Maxine filled my matchbox with goodies I adore!

Do you adore them too?      

Participants in the Nature Journal Page swap created six pages.  Each participant randomly received six pages in-exchange.

These are the pages I received

Our front cover was created by swap host Beth Leintz

Nora Neeley's darling rebus page

Great colors and texture layers in Barb Buckton's awesome page

 This lovely SING page was not signed... if you are the artist of this page please contact me and let me know... it is beautiful!

Lovin' the glitter here on Marj Sell's page...

My final page is also by Beth Leintz and features vintage wallpaper including flocked wallpaper for the bird

They are all so delightful!

Bird Song II - Part Two

Twenty-eight women gathered recently to learn, teach and be blessed with kindred spirit at 
Bird Song II - as one Peep said 

"I've found my people"

 The day before Bird Song II - 

Rebecca, Laurie, me & Suzanne went treasure hunting

 Our amazing teachers 

Beth, Karla and Lisa

These gals are full of creative inspiration and so willing to share it! 

The Peeps

 

 

 Our classes were held in Karla's beautiful studio

(one can only be inspired from its beauty & creativity)

Day One 

 Beth's class - Nature Collage Assemblage

My collage includes a 1925 Kansas City newspaper featuring the Grain Market Review and an ad for Emery, Bird & Thayer, a store I remember from childhood on the Country Club Plaza.  The bottom right corner is a decoupaged napkin from our morning coffee - way too sweet for coffee use, so I used it on my collage.  It was a hit, several other Peeps uniquely used a napkin in their collages

Karla's class - Woodland Sprite

We created the mushrooms out of screen, duct tape, and then paper-mached the mushroom with vintage paper, included a frozen Charlotte all gussied up as a fairy, vintage millinery
and natural items

Day Two 
Lisa's class - The Faerie Theatre

I chose to use a photo of myself at age two to create my fairy.  Lisa taught us how to use wire, fabric and hot beeswax to create our fairy wings

Karla's class - Handmade Vintage Necklace 

Karla provided us with lovely vintage beads & watch faces to create our lovely necklaces.  This was my first time ever to create from scratch a necklace... after awhile my arthritis took over my fingers, my eyes grew tied, so I decided to finish my necklace at home...
still need to do that (!)

Here's Karla's example necklace, lovely isn't it?

   Still have oodles to share with you, so please check back again to see more of Bird Song II.

Till then, Find the wonderful in today!

Bird Song II - Part One

What a blissful weekend at
Karla's Bird Song II - amazing!

Gosh, not sure where to begin as there is so much beauty to share - for now here are my creations for the three Bird Song swaps 
I joined... 

SING banner swap (my letter was G)
Nature journal page
Nature matchbox

 

Reverse
(How perfect is this quote?!)

Reverse
 

My sponsor creations for all the Peeps and teachers

 I could continue posting tons of photos as there is so much I want to share, but that would be excessive for one post.

Please come back & visit to see more of Bird Song II.  

See you soon!