My Studio Time

Studio Time This Past Week

Watercolor, appliqué, EPP *English Paper Piecing, and a happy accident.  Live is good, Praise God. 

I worked with a new palette  Prima-Tropical.  It has a lot of potential.  Working on a flower vase, fun and challenging.  The flowers seem to flow okay, the vase needs some work.  

I added some texture to the vase, it still needs something....I'll keep working it.  I LOVE the gold dots added to some of the flowers and leaves. 

This is going to be one of my all time favorite palettes....More of this one is in the future. This were unplanned pieces.  I let the paint blobs speak to me.  CeeCee Designs on Youtube is an amazing artist to watch and get inspiration from. 

This was one large sheet painted with the Prima -tropical palette.  It was then cut up and placed into the slots of the cards. 

These two are cards have been sent out.

This is a happy accident.  I hung it up on the door to make room on my design wall and the sun was shining through the window at the bottom.  The red felt from behind really makes this piece pop.  I now need to figure out how to make color part of the piece before I work on the thread play.  This project is one of the current "in progress" pieces. 

I worked on my appliqué gi-normous quilt this week.  It is so close to being done.  The long border up on the design wall is the only total piece left to appliqué with a small part of the right side of the border to do yet.

Here is the top and bottom borders

And in all it's glory waiting to be quilted.

Oh yeah, I started an EPP project using Tula Pink Line Work line.  I love the fabric.  This pattern is the  Cherish quilt from Tales of Cloth

We enjoyed, or at least I enjoyed, a game of scrabble....609 points and used all letters 3 times!  Jerry also used all his letters once.  It is rare to use all my letters....I was so excited to use them once.  Imagine the excitement when I used them twice....and then a 3rd time!  

I found, no Stubby found a new place to hang out instead of that Rosewood, Roseville, um Rose something antique flower pot she adopted.  

We topped of the week with an amazing 1 mile walk.  

I must confess I'm exhausted looking at all I've done this week in the Studio and realize that I am productive that my naps are a good thing.  AMEN.

 

Art Journaling

 Art Journaling for 2021 has begun!  

This year proves to be exciting.  This is a mixed media challenge for the year and it includes fabric.  Well now, most of you know that fabric  and I have a relationship already so that part will be easy!  The other challenges will be well, just that challenges.  

Joanne Sharpe Artful Inspired Life 2021

My word for the year-Connect.

I took inspiration from CeeCee designs (YouTube)  for this 

layout.  

The Craft

Clever Collections

Color Vision

I'm looking forward to participating in this project for the 3rd year. 

May peace, joy and happiness be with all of you all.

 

Word for 2021

My word for this year is:

Making New Year's resolutions has always been a bust for me. Generally by the second week, if I make it that far, I've already broken my self made promise and feel defeated!

Several years ago I starting picking a word for the year and it has proven to be much more effective. I'm successful, inspired to see where the word takes me and feel accomplished even at the end of the year as I review.  

My rough goals for the word Connect, which will be refined and honed in on over the year are: 

~ First and foremost Connect with God every day

Then in no particular order

~Connect with my husband daily. 

~Connect with our kids routinely.

~ Connect with my artistic side through watercolor, art quilts, quilting, drawing and writing.  

                ~Artfully Inspired 2021 journal

                ~daily water color practice with CeCe and

                   in journal

                 ~2-3 Art Quilting classes this year

                 ~Abstract Art Class

~Connect with family and friends often through calls, texts, birthday cards, sympathy cards, care cards, phone calls.  Making sure to let each one know how special they are to me.

~Connect with and make new friends.  Through mentorship program, church, art, open opportunities.

 

~Connect through social media, blog, FB, Instagram

If you are inspired to have a word of the year and want to have one selected for you, one avenue is to use: 

Day Spring's Word of the Year Selection

Happy New Year!