Yippy Yuppo

Ink and yuppo

I am having so much fun with alcohol inks and yuppo.  Even though these are pretty, I am still not getting the effect that I want.  Practice, practice, practice.  It is an experiment where the potential is limitless.  Once I get an effect I am happy enough to reproduce I will be putting them in the shop.

Thursday and Friday I spent an overnight at the camp.  It was nice to be off the grid (again).  So quiet, no phones, no cell service gave me time to reflect on the different directions my company can take.  And even though it is very exciting I sometimes feel overwhelmed with all the possiblilites.  If anyone in the Catskill region reads my blog and would like to have a very part-time job, or internship, let me know.  I would love to talk to you.  The business is small but there are several areas I need help with.  Organization, marketing, packaging...... And I am always looking for another artist to play with!!!!!  If you are interested send me an email.  Reply to andrea@creativezenart.com.

TANGLES AND QUILTS!!! OH MY!

A little fun with scrap quilting

Happy Super Saturday everyone!  Today is a beautiful sunny day and the air is so crisp and wonderful.  I love this time of year!

I am still unpacking boxes for the studio.  It seems like a never ending project.  I keep asking myself "how in the world did I fit all of this stuf in about a third of the space.  Well, I think I had more shelf space but that can be easily remedied.

In any case, one of the boxes I unpacked this week was all of my practice quilt pieces.  When I begin to quilt, I practice on a scrap quilt sandwhich to make sure the thread, tension, and machine are all working in harmony.  Most quilters do this.  What happens is that you end up with lots of practice quilt sandwhiches.  I was collecting quite a pile of them.

Then Zentangle came into my life and I began to tangle one of the sandwhiches.  It was so much fun that I have decided to do a series of them and hang them all over my studio.  The practice quilting pieces already have the "strings".  All I have  to do is tangle.  This is going to be so much fun that I think I will design a class for other quilters who may want to explore this technique.

HAVE A SUPER SATURDAY

NAMASTE

HOW WE CELEBRATE

An interesting thing happened to me over the weekend that I would like to tell you about.  I always wear my fitbit (except when I am charging it of course).  My fitbit began to vibrate as I was walking. It was telling me that I had reach 10,000 thousand steps for that day!  Now here is the interesting part....I immediately began thinking about celebrating my wonderful achievement!  Visions of goodies began to flash through like lightening.  Would it be icecream?  cupcake?  pie?  cake?  Then all of a sudden I stopped in my tracks.  Wait a minute! I realized I had somehow gotten turned around in my thinking?  I asked myself this question......

When and how did sweets become the poster child for celebration?

When the pilgrims decided to celebrate their good fortune and new friends did they think  Oh, yes,  Ladies, let the pie baking begin!? No, and was their celebration any less celebratorial?  No. There are lots of arguments about what they actually ate but ice cream was not their first thought I am sure. And there are so many other examples but you get the picture.

What a time I had arguing with myself over taking care of myself in a better way.  After about an hour (no, I am not exagerating), I decided that I would celebrate by NOT having icecream or any sweet for that matter.  Instead, I had a nice healthy dinner and it was soooo good.