Yarning away… :P

I have to admit… I’m not that good at yarn games… lol… this little outfit looks cute, but it ended up looking more like a premy garment, or maybe doll clothes… My friend Debbie and her wife ended up with a very healthy, very non-premy baby… lol… I still gave them the outfit… maybe their little Junebug will want to put it on a doll baby, if it doesn’t get lost… years are a bit long to ask the small outfit to stick around… I can’t even keep track of all my socks throughout the year… how the heck can one little outfit last even longer…

Still… it was a fun experiment… I saw the little booties and sandals online (YouTube) and just loved them… I had to try to make them… but sadly, I suck at the rules of knitting without cheating… I have about a dozen looms, in different sizes… I have made scarfs, hats, afghans, and hand warmers… I even managed a few dolls… they looked like teddy bears, and one octopus… I love that octopus… I will make sure to show everyone how I made him… 😛 there is so much that can be created when you put your mind to it…

just go HERE if you want to watch the YouTube video that showed me how to make the little flip flops… I would love to see what everyone ends up with… 😛 see ya next week, and happy wordage

Bracelet beginers…

bracelet

I love this connector pieces… they manage to make a simple beaded bracelet into something more… sorry… but this post is going to be short… it is just to get the ball rolling… 😛 Tracey

Paintings

I know this isn’t the third week (Friday) of the month, but I thought I would start things off with one of my favorite paintings… get the ball rolling while we wait for the third Friday to roll around… I forgot to take a picture of the finished look… just imagine some darker book pages on top of the flower roots…

Because that is what this is… a flower growing out of the pages of a book… when I first started this painting I didn’t think I would like what I found after the last brush stroke… but I continued to come back, adding more strokes, more color, more definition… and each time the painting grew… when I finally came into my office to work on it that last day, I just knew that one more brush stroke would ruin it all…

that has happened to me a lot… when that happens, there is nothing to do but pull out the white paint and start from scratch… and man does that hurt… but if you keep trying to fix the flaws you see, you end up with a final result that you will never be happy with…

but this painting is my favorite for a lot of reasons… and not just because I love the final look… this painting is about hope to me… about learning to fly… when you see a baby bird falling from the sky, the feathers sooo brand new, it is hard to imagine that the little guy will move in just the right way, soring back into the air…

this painting is about my writing, my MS, about life… it isn’t this moment that defines us… it is the next and the next… all we need is that one final brush stroke and we will finally be where we were meant to be… we will learn to fly… (and if we fall on our face, we can white out the board and start over) Happy wordage everyone… Tracey Clark