Time Marches On in progress

This is the piece I'm currently working on. I have completed the felting but I'm still adding hand embroidery. I used my jelly rolls in this piece. I cut slices and then decided to pull them apart and open them up. I left some of the slices intact and needled felted them into the background. I need to get this finished by the 26th of this month to enter it into Fiberworks.

Our cat, Dudley, is surveying the new floor. The wall we started on is 58' long. We have installed 10' of flooring from the wall.

Dudley has been our supervisor. He watches our every move to make sure we are doing a good job!

You can see some of the boxes of flooring on the floor and the cutter on the right.

Installing the Floor

Ron and I have started laying the floor in our loft. It will be so nice when it's finished! I was getting tired of plain dusty old unsealed concrete. This is vinyl plank flooring that is 6" x 36" in a hickory color. It's a floating floor system so the planks have glue where they interlock with each other but they are not glued to the floor. It's really easy for a novice to install and believe me we are novices.

Work in Progress

I'm working on a new felted piece so I will have something to enter in Fiberworks 2007. I haven't decided on the title of this yet but it will be something about "trying to contain time". Any name suggestions, anyone? This is made from my Felting Fabric and embellished with hand embroidery. I'm painting a canvas to mount it on and then it will be finished.

Felted Jelly Rolls!

I made felted jelly rolls this weekend! Aren't they cool! I will use them in a needle felted project very soon (I hope!). This is my first attempt at doing something like this so I still have a lot to learn and want to make the next ones differently. They are made from prefelt fabric that I purchased from Outback Fibers online and I added wisps of wool roving in the orange/brown roll on the right and wisps of silk roving in the black/purple/green on the left. The silk roving didn't show up like I wanted it to.

Abstract Challenge - Orange

This is the little piece I made for the Abstract Challenge list that I belong to. The word this month was "Orange". The center orange piece is painted tyvek and it reminded me of the texture on the outside of an orange. The next two layers of teal and orange are painted cotton batting, the yellow is wool felt, and it's mounted on a painted wrapped canvas.

What a Mess!

Here are more photos of my messy living area. You really need a big imagination to see the potential. We have ordered vinyl plank flooring that looks like hickory wood. We will have to move all the furniture and boxes to one area so we can start installing the floor. The problem is it won't fit in one area so we will be moving all this stuff several times to get the floor layed. We ordered 2400 sq. feet of flooring so this is a large area. I only posted photos of the central section.

Painted Walls

I have painted walls after living 2 years with textured sheetrock! I'm still living in a construction zone but at least the walls are painted. I chose Cinnamon Cherry for the dining room area.

The bistro area has taupe walls and the other walls are a blue/gray. We have furniture and boxes everywhere. It's really a mess but I can't unpack until we get the floor layed. The flooring is on order and should be here in a couple of weeks.

I still can't get my photos posted in the position I want them! There should be a way to move them around. Oh well. I have more photos but I'll post them later.

I have the furniture covered with old blankets because of the cats. One of these days I hope to have new more modern furniture but that will have to wait.

OWA Mixed Media Video

I know I shouldn't publicize this video of myself because it's really poor quality and I'm not experienced at talking about my work in front of a camera (or anyplace else for that matter!) but here is the link if you want to watch it http://www.sonarta.com/event/video/38 . Sonarta is a relatively new organization in Oklahoma City that has been visiting a lot of gallery shows in the area. They take photos and shoot videos of the artists and publish it on their website at http://www.sonarta.com/ . So if you are interested in what's happening in the art scene in Oklahoma City, OK take a look at the different videos. We have a lot of wonderful artists in the area and many opportunities to exhibit. I know Oklahoma isn't known for having art so I'm glad they are trying to get the word out to the public with this website. This isn't Sonarta's main focus and the videos aren't the best quality but I appreciate their efforts, their love for art, and their community.

Moving Day

Whew! I hope I never have to move our residence or our business again! If there is a next time I will only take what will fit in my car and drive away. We bought this commercial property a little over three years ago and have been remodeling and moving ever since that time. Our business and all of Ron's machinery and tools are on the bottom floor and in the two warehouses. My studio and our living quarters are upstairs which is about 5,000 square feet. We did some work on our house before putting it on the market to sell and moved all the equipment in the 3 car garage and a few essential things that we needed to our loft. We have been living in the loft/warehouse for two years but we left the house furnished. It took 17 months for our house to sell. We close on the house tomorrow at 1:00pm so I'm thrilled! We almost have everything moved from the house. This has been a major undertaking because it was full of stuff we have collected over the 29 years we have been married.

I was going to keep this blog art related but moving and selling our house has really influenced my art work......or should I say hindered? A huge burden has been lifted and this phase of my life is over so I feel a new beginning emerging. I just noticed a bird outside gathering twigs to build a nest in the little holly tree by the front door. It's Spring so it's an excellent time for a new beginning! Praise the Lord!