Crafty Summer

I've been back in my studio for a while now.  Playing with fabric and clay after a long hiatus.  All of a sudden, I have several projects in the works, and dozens more that keep popping into my mind.  

It began with a challenge to myself:  just once a day, get upstairs and make something.  It didn't matter what, and it didn't have to be useful or even finished.  Just get up there and do something.  I started with putting a pocket on one of Fee's old shirts that I use as a smock.  

I used an eco-print of leaves that I made a couple of years ago and never did anything with.

  Then I added a piece of embroidery from several years ago.

A smaller pocket.

 Then a bunch of textile brooches.

Using other scraps of stuff.

Then, step-by-step

the Hedge Witch

appeared.

And Milly,

a little ghost dolly.

Things have gotten out of hand.

I'm spending at least 8 hours a the day in the studio 

working on too many projects

and having a grand time.

The latest obsession is a version of the letter game.

Remember how much I enjoyed 

Sorcery & Cece or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot?

I'm trying a version of the letter game

with my Baton Rouge grandkids.

I have all kinds of creative endeavors in mind

that I hope they will find entertaining.

Who knows if they will want to write return letters.

  They are kids--and it might not sound like fun to them.

But if they don't want to play,

I will have had the fun of planning

and imagining, and researching.