June-Listen to Your Creative Self

Listen to Your Creative Self 

     I have wanted to learn how to do crazy quilting from the time I was in high school (a few years ago at least).  During my selection for the June journal project Listen was chosen as my token for my bead journal theme. The decision was made to incorporate my crazy quilting lessons with the bead journal project by listening to my creative self and putting together two of the things I love to do.  The results are pleasing. 

 Here are some details of the stitches I learned and you can see the movable time piece that was included.  

Here is more detail of the piece. 

     The month of June was a time to let my creative self, who'd been begging to emerge, come out. When we purchased our new home there was no indication that I'd have both a beading studio AND a sewing room.  My sewing room was going to originally be my "walk in closet".  But because this was a year for simplification (January project) I had given away a ton of clothes which left an open room.  I now have a beautiful sewing room.  It is amazing how that space has awaken my creative self.  I find I am listening to the voice that says "the whole thing doesn't have to have beads on it to be part of the bead journal project".  And listening to the idea that learning is part of the journey.  

    I still don't have enough time to enjoy what I do however, I'm learning to listen and trust my creative self more. 

May-Breath

Just Breath

Just Breath was created by stepping out of the box and being bold with color, using Shibori ribbon for the first time,and using the cute little clam beads.  I like the effect.  

 The moving time piece in the lilly pond is the movable component that captures the movement of the water. 

     Just Breath has been all about taking time to relax.  The golden Shibori ribbon represents the "road to catching time".

This piece was extremely enjoyable to make.  The intension was to listen to the beads and bead in the negative space without overcrowding the space but filling it up smoothly, and loosely. 

     During the month of May the home we'd been living in for 13 years and the home we went back and forth between for the past several months while renovations were taking place, went into escrow.  It is bitter sweet to be in the final chapter of a year long process of buying, renovating and selling our home.   Almost all boxes are unpacked. Now there are flowers to be planted and memories to be made.

                          It is time to JUST BREATH!