mountain magic arts

Meet my new traveling friends that have joined my husband and myself on this extended trip. From Left to Right they are Wim (Whistler Ivan Moose), Tip (Toronto International Panda), and Babs (Blackcomb Angelina Bear). They joined us in parts of Canada and decided to stay with me and help me out as my advisors on all things creative and fun. They claim that they are duel citizens now! We have started on a hand embroidery project. We are doing squares for a baby quilt. As I had none of my supplies along we have to find a JoAnns and do a little shopping, but that done we got started  We picked a size, taped the edges to keep it from unraveling and tried it in the hoop we got. Then it was time to put a design on. Our first square will be a baby giraffe Now we have got it hooped, hopefully I will get some time soon to actually start embroidering it. While we were in New York City we also found some fun cloth at the fabric district. so much stuff it was hard ...

I love crafts, most any kind of crafts, and there in is my problem some days. I am like a butterfly who flits from craft to craft and not specializing in any one craft or area of crafts. I love to  Cooking and Baking Sewing Embroidering Planning and have wonderful parties Ceramics (freeform and molded) Resin Jewelry making Quilting Paper crafts Sculpting  Stain Glass Painting and Drawing and on and on In most cases I am pretty good to very good at them as I have not specialized I am good at many things, but not know (except by a select few) for any. This sometimes causes a quite a problem for me. The below are a series of resin castings I have done and they will be the start of a new project set for me. I will show you all once I have them in the final stages and as I want them. Another flight of fancy. Yet as the butterfly that I am, I am flitting to another idea I have been mulling over for the past couple of month. ...

One of the many hobbies I have taken up is creating bath products. My first attempts are in the area of soap making. I love the idea of fun soaps and bath products. I was able to find some fun soap molds. My favorite among them are the celtic designs. I am not sure why, but they have always appealed to me. I made two types of soaps. Both were  glycerin based and the only real differences were the scents and the coloring.  I had both transparent and opaque colorings. I used essential oils for the scents. I did citrus for the yellow, lilac for the purple, evergreen for the green, and rose for the pink. I had some interesting effects on the transparent bars. Most of them got clouded and gave me a half and half type effect. This was not in my plan for them and I am still not sure why some of them did this. I am thinking it might have been a problem with some contaminates on the mold? I am not sure but will try again later to test this theory. They came out kind in...