Well the bag is done. I am getting back to crochet but I need to get back to doing things that will make money. Isn’t that always the way
May 28, 2008
May 24, 2008
Mac found some new mown grass and rolled in it. Such joy you have never seen. But how do you like his new high lights
May 20, 2008
What a mess these few days have been. On Friday evening I fell while going to walk Mac. I have a this disease/condition called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome so if I fall I usually hurt myself quite badly. This time not too bad but I am still really feeling it.
So I decided that I would make that bag I was talking about I am about half way through. I took this picture with my phone so it’s not great but I will shoot a better one once I am finished.
I am going to start planting my garden once my body and the weather starts to cooperate (stay tuned for pics)
So it wasn’t too bad and I will get better so maybe the title should be good and not so good
May 14, 2008
I didn’t get in the Toronto Outdoor Art Show again. Why do I even try with this it’s the 4th time I have entered ant the 4th time I have been rejected. This time I was even contacted about the work they said I wasn’t a textile/fiber artist as i said in my entry and put me in jewelry. I went in as a textile artist and I believe that I am for the most part as I use a needle and thread to do most of my work. Above is one of the picture I sent to the committee. These are a selection of my Ndeble/Herringbone bangles (they are one of a series of each one). These are bead weaving it is done with a needle and thread. I also had embroidered brooches, spiral rope (bead weaving again) necklaces, my fringe bracelets and necklace (also done with needle and thread) OK there was 2 pictures of wire work but this is something I have been doing too. Why do you need to fit in a box? They said that my work was jewelry yes but it is also textile and jewelry isn’t a media last time I checked. So what should I do only do textiles? Are bead textiles? they are glass for the most part so where do they fit and where do I fit. I want to do more wire work and I want to learn to make glass beads and incorporate it into my work. So what am I then? I consider my self and craft person, artist, artisan, or even a designer-maker. OK there is my rant an I will pick myself up and go on thanks for listening.
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May 9, 2008
I went to see the oncologist yesterday and he said that I am doing fine, I didn’t say this before because I hate the idea of being a victim but I guess it explains why I feel that I need to do what makes me happy and to do what I want and life is too short. I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer 4 years ago this month. I went through a mastectomy, chemo the whole thing. And I still am going through it as I am waiting for the plastic surgeon for the call that my 3rd mastectomy. The last 2 didn’t work so we are going to try a experimental technique that she thinks I will work for me. So after that it’s going to better. I can go on with my life and put the cancer stuff behind me. So this summer can be the time when my art/craft gets noticed. What I difference 4 years make eh!
May 5, 2008
I need to do this more so I get in the habit. What I have been doing? Well I have been stringing bead crochet patterns for beaded rope. Why? Well it all started because I was having surgery on May 21 then it got postponed and I kept on looking for more ways to string patterns. I now have 8 different patterns strung on spools and that should hold me for a while. I now need to get the web site up, finish getting all my work up on the etsy store and get back’ to work on stuff that i will have at the Toronto Outdoor Art Show if I get in (she said with crossed fingers). And I still don’t know when I will have the sugery I hope it’s soon I can’t plan anything.
I keep on getting new idea’s and that I need to have done for the TOAS just in case I get in. But I have this idea for copper necklaces with different chains, beads and wire work. Then I have this great idea for a crochet beaded purse with the recycled sari yarn I got last fall. And then I want to start on the idea of collage in glass microscope slides. I used to worry that I wasn’t creative when I was working as a graphic designer. I would stress that I wasn’t good enough but I now see that It wasn’t me it was what I was doing. With craft I have too many ideas but I don;t have the time to get them all done. I am just ranting I guess I am lucky what if I didn’t have any right?