A Place to Create

This weekend was filled with housework, and re-organizing, and deciding which of my creative projects I wanted to do. (I'm using a to-do list in my Google home page to keep track of creative projects.)

I have several DIPs, but I'm also hosting a beaded button doll swap on the CPS list, and I'm participating in the monthly "beaded mini" challenge in that group. And finally, I've been part of a group that organized several months ago - an altered wearable art round robin - and though I shipped my jacket to be altered in October, our first shipping date is just coming up, and I haven't started on the piece I received. I have to be the first to "alter" a jacket, which is really more to embellish a totally blank new piece.

The beaded mini travels well, so I set up this little corner in the family room, with an Ott floor lite, for working on my 1 1/2" square piece.

Here's what I've accomplished so far with it:

And here's JudiA's beautiful silk charmeuse jacket. I finally know what I'm going to do with it (to it?) and just haven't gotten there yet. Talk about a blank slate! It's a little intimidating. (And no, I'm not adding any of those feather boas you see hanging near it - draped over the door is their normal storage spot.)

We made a trip to Target today, and I acquired two more ways to store my art stash. Oldtimer and I spent an hour or two, crawling around the guest room floor, putting them together. Photos soon.