Now for some of my inspiration..

I thought that this picture was awesome! And I wanted to share it with you, but I realized that I don't really have any of my art up that can really show off my talent. So, I decided to go around taking pictures of some of my artwork and work in progress.

This one I love so much I hung it up in my living room. It's a portrait of my cat as Buddha. Thus called, Mikey Buddha. I think it's a great likeness.


A water Sylph . Sorry if the picture is a little dark.



A fairy. Yeah, I love fairies.


..And my favorite, the archangel Raphael.



Now for some knitting. I'm working on this cropped cardigan for Olivia. The design is my own so I'm working on the pattern as I'm knitting it. After it's done I'm going to work some embroidery on the left side. I'm hoping to have it done by this weekend, but I completely screwed up the left panel by misjudging the math. (Told you I wasn't that good at math...hence why I'm an artist.) So I had to rip it down to the armhole and try again. Oy!

Free Wallpaper

Here you guys go, I give you The Ultimate Knitter! All you have to do is click on the picture, right click on the full size image after it downloads and click "set as desktop background". Hope you like it. I'm hoping on doing more wallpapers for knitters. Let me know how you like it. :D

Knitting is Meditative

I've come to realize that knitting is a great meditative act. I used to meditate on a regular basis. It was calming and it helped to find your inner peace. Within the last year I've actually stopped all together. My husband would comment on my lack of meditating, wondering if I was feeling it lacking in my life in a negative way.

"Nope, I honestly don't really notice it all that much. I wonder why."

At this point I would pick up my needles and putter away making a sweater, sock or whatever the current project was. I would drift off in complete relaxation. I wasn't worried about bills or the cat's current stress related disorder. I would just sit there and knit. I felt terrible that I was giving up my Zen seeking sessions for a more material based hobby.

It was then that I realized that I didn't really actually leave my meditation on my mat in the back room. I substituted it for something much different. I am completely in agreement when I hear people say knitting is NOT a hobby, it's a way of life. It's addictive in a way that you find your center. You seem to not care that your laundry is piling up or that you had an extra slice of pizza at supper. No, when you knit you forget about all those mundane things and you find something inside yourself.

And in the end, you get an awesome pair of socks too. :D

Laughing Dog

Here's a little humor to start the day. I thought that this would be a hilarious concept. The 'what if' idea. What would life on the farm be like. Well, being a rather weird person I conjured thoughts of coffee breaks and idle chit chat around the water trough. Every job even has that manager that seems to be riding your butt now and then and mocking you in some way. You know, all that hard work you put in doesn't seem to really amount to much accept make his job cushier. Then this popped into my head. I laughed and had to put it down on paper. Well, what do you think?

I also put this onto a tote, mug and dog t-shirt (fitting I think.) If you're interested in purchasing one you can visit my store.

Yellow Fairy

Well, the addition to my walls is coming quite nicely. I feel badly because I didn't really want to hang my art on the walls. But, it's actually quite comfy and cozy being surrounded by something I created. My husband has been a little apprehensive to fully make this apartment a home. We've been here for 8 months now. I think his apprehension is due to the fact that he wants to buy a house soon so he doesn't really see the point in settling in. Well...tell you what. I'm a taurean and I need a place to set a big hind roast and relax. Yeah...he caved in.

Blue Fairy

I got tired of the plain white walls of my apartment. I decided to do some fairy pictures and hang them on the wall. My daughter LOVES them. I'm in the mood to do something different with it all. Having different colored fairies.

I know you can't see it here, but I also painted the frame blue. She's quite a neat addition to the home. I should add some gnomes and dragons to the walls. I hated the thought of adding my art to the walls, but after not having much otherwise (usually stuff I don't like) I figured, what the heck.

Cinderella

I always have to do something new with my artwork and crafting. I love to try new mediums. This week I tried working with painting on glass. The mediums I used were a glass enamel paint that seemed a little....chunky. They dried really quickly it seemed.
My first attempt at painting was just a little "sign" on my coffee cup that said coffee. Course that's a little obvious. I'm thinking of making a cup that says.."don't piss off chicks who use pointy sticks."
Instead, I got caught up in painting a Cinderella mug for my daughter. It just kills her to know that it's going to take an entire month to cure the paint. So, every day she asks me .."is my princess cup done yet!!??" LOL.
Well, check it out. I think it's pretty good for just looking at the picture and painting without any guide line. Except, I'm not too pleased with how my daughters name turned out. LOL. It was more like a last minute thing where my daughter says, " but mooommmmyyy..it doesn't have my name on it!!!!"