The one in the right of the picture is for my scarf and the one on the left is fibre for spinning. Carrie has a spinning wheel and I'm gonna try and do it myself and is I can't manage, Carrie will do it for me. This is gonna be fun!!!Aren't the colours just yummy!!
As I've not been feeling too well I've ordered loads of crafty books and have a little bit of mojo reappear!! My spasms have all but stopped now, but I'm still so tired so I've done a little bit of journaling to cheer myself up. I still can't sit at my craft table for too long so I've pretty much done these pages in fits and starts. But that's the beauty of journaling - you don't need to do it all in one go!
This first page is my first attempt at layers. I originally wrote a letter to Martha (my gorgeous cat who died in May last year) and it made me so sad each time I saw it that I wanted to cover it up. So I started with a couple of layers of gesso, followed by some watered down yellow and ultramarine Golden paint. Once that way dry, I used torn book pages and used gel medium to stick them down. Then I used white acrylic paint to make marks over the pages with bottle caps, credit card edges, the lid from a large Malteser tube and a texture stamps that I found in the kiddies section of an craft store. I'm really pleased with the result.
The next page is something that just popped into my head one day when I was walking (carefully) downstairs. I'm really pleased at the way it turned out. I used music paper behind Darth Vader as I can't look at that picture and not here his music from Star Wars!!!
