bee creative

5 minutes because I slept in

It's a Timber Moon!

And despite the cold snap and kittens (I brought it in and then covered it with a clear plastic bag), my indigo plant is alive!

Hooray!

a new rabbit hole

Always helpful Timber.

They aren't going to be perfectly clean but I don't care. 

I love this.

And mostly the boys were good.

framed

Off work today to catch up with overtime from dealing with snow days (we don't close).  Yesterday morning another 4 or so inches of snow.  And then rain, lots of it.  There is a bit more snow in the forecast, but mostly we are transitioning back to the normal winter weather: gray, wet and mild.

I am not sure how to describe what swans sound like but while outside on Wednesday I heard them, and looked up to see a small flock fly by.  With their long necks, it is easy to tell them from geese, both winter in the fields around here.

Another Merlin sighting, this time at work on the trail across the street.

On Thursday, 5 minutes of stitching to frame the words,

"The matter of quiet is important."

build your own story #3 Claim check

build your own story #2 (subtitle inside the snow globe)

 

this December

I thought about an "open house" again or a project that might span the month, but I am too scattered in my thinking right now for much of anything. 

I want to focus on the joyful things of December, the things that are celebrations, not habits. 

I am not exactly sure how that will show up or when.

I do know that decorations will have to be sturdy.  Any surface the kittens can reach is considered part of the playground...

(This is 3 layers + two filters)

Yesterday there was sunshine and this morning rain. 

Chance of snow off and on throughout the week.

 

rearrange things, create

Why not? Why not rearrange where the moon might be?

Why not layer day and night?

Silk thread: onion, indigo (that I grew and fermented), carrot, and red cabbage.

Play.

foundations

The bottom layer of an altered photo could be considered a foundation.

This is unaltered, taken from outside looking in.

And this is with multiple layers.

It diffuses the clutter.

Foundations...another word to toss in my word bank.  Foundations can be weak or strong.  Sometimes they need to be rebuilt.

 

At least three inches of rain in the last four days. The silk was dyed in the fermentation vat that I made with powdered indigo. Tossing some cotton in next.

The first layer of color could be considered a foundation.

Thinking: foundation piecing for quilts.

(Thinking...I use thinking a lot.  I've realized it is because it's in the realm of possible, process, not quite decided, under consideration.)

"If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."  Henry David Thoreau

P.S. for Liz:

 

early Saturdaymorning (melodrama or not)

Early Saturday morning.

Playing a little...

This is about 4 different layers. The beast started as a fragment sent to me by Jude.  It's something that I started, got stuck on and put aside for awhile...years ago. 

That's how it goes for me. I start, stop, return.

A filter added. Change the mood.

Yesterday another trip to the vet for follow up immunizations. Timber escaped out of the carrier twice.

(Gibson was in another carrier.  Would they have been happier together?)

Last night, just before sunset. I think I've finally caught the color.  No filter, just beautiful soft reds, oranges...

The sky was the same color.

One of the two year olds told me this week "go to your room" and then she laughed and said "hi." 

No melodrama with toddlers, just lots of experimentation. 

It's early Saturday morning and a whole weekend before me. 

Thinking about what I want to do.

Can a weekend be a room?

 

 

layers

Digital:

and colors:

And layers for warmth.

I dipped the end of the cowl in my fermented fresh leaf indigo vat. It's still wet but I am sure that it will be just right, however it turns out.

Still thinking about words, will be for awhile:  ritual, ceremonies, celebrations, habits, patterns, and one more..tradition.