Have you ever read the book, Groundsel? Jack Frost has hidden the key to time and Winter lasts all year, well that’s exactly what it feels like here in Rosebery! I knew this town is designated as ‘rain-forest’ but, I had no idea of the amount of rain that can fall and, it’s been windy and cold!
Time to look at doing some indoor activity to stop the cabin fever!
To take my mind off the soggy conditions and my forlorn downhearted daffodils, tulips and beheaded Dutch iris’s, I’ve been tidying up the studio and putting my mind to what’s next. I always feel a little down after exhibiting and it takes me sometime to refuel my creative energies. Sometimes it comes from internal forces and sometimes it comes unexpectedly form outside. This time around it’s been a bit of both!
I was unexpectedly asked if I was interested in illustrating a children’s book and another two emails arrived with the offer of two painting commissions! Plus, I found my old soldering iron and noticed that I still had quite a few bits and pieces left for making some soldered glass pendants.
I’ve always been the type of creative that has to be busy with more than one project, don’t ask me why, its totally subconscious and I don’t question it myself!
My father was the same as was his mother, the only grandparent I knew.
So, after sometime refreshing my memory of soldering, thank you Margo Beatty and Suzi Blu! Was it really 2014 when I last made my soldered pendants!
I made a bunch of pendants using images from my mixed media paintings and a couple from my watercolour illustrations. A couple O made just for myself, a couple more I made for my sister…but I will reveal those at another time. (birthday presents), several more are now in my shop!
It was quite a learning curb and my eyesight is not as it once was, but I’m rather happy with the end result and I am using what I have!
The illustrations for the children’s book are nearly completed and I will post some photos of the work soon!
The first painting commission work is in progress…and I have to keep that a secret too!!
But I can share with you that my sewing room is nearly finished, I now have a sewing table, just need a couple of shelves to put up and I can start…or finish off a ton of projects I started a couple of years ago! YAY
