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rainsstudio — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:02:58 +0000

Exhale!..I am still working away on my projects: 1) 7/30/365 Art Card Project. I have been lingering around six cards a week and don't think I will get to 7/30/365. Fear not I am not the least bit stressed over this. Its suppose to be a fun stress free personal challenge. And it is. My cards are all fiber post cards. I'll post them all after the challenge year. It will be nice to see just where I began and where it leads me. Of course, I may not always be able to even do the six I'm doing now. Life gets in the way sometimes and causes things to slow down a bit or come to a screeching halt. I'm not anticipating anything major except a move in the near future ( date pending) and dd's knee surgery the end of this month. So the two little ones will be under foot quite a bit more. Lucky me! And I do mean that. They are my heart strings. Moving on to number 2) The journal quilts which has not been going as planned. I have only completed two months. The plan was to do at least one journal quilt per month. March is in-complete and April is really up in the Air. No stress here either. Its my personal challenge. One of my goals was to explore more this year. Some of my fiber cards will be exploration pieces and some will reflect feelings and other stuff. The journal quilts, same rule applies. I find myself jumping between projects and starting new ones before finishing the older ones. I bet you're thinking I probably never get any thing finished. Actually once I get going and I'm on a roll my UFOs start to quickly move to my finished pile. I have to keep telling myself to put them out of sight, least I look at just one and decide its not finished yet until I...... oh well! And this is two out twenty-three...goals I made for the year. How in the world will SHE EVERRR...... ? No stress here! You can tell by now that one of these was to be more calmer this year and don't stress over everything. Anyway, most of these are a mind set for me and some are just small task. Which I might move to my to-do list. Least this list is getting longer....oh well.... Exhale!

What are we working on?

rainsstudio — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:28:48 +0000

I have been working on some of my post cards. They are so fun to work with. Small pieces are not that much of a time investment. That makes them perfect for exploration work. I did a discharge technique and I enjoyed the process because of the element of surprise in the end results. This was a easy and quick technique. I didn't have to go out to buy supplies. You use things usually you already have on hand. I was please with the results. Some beading maybe and this piece will be complete.

Photos/Happy 2nd B Day Ty

rainsstudio — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:13:35 +0000

Yes, I've got photos now. However, I am still building this blog site (kind regards, please). I am also working on several other projects. I know I'll need to start my February journal quilt. The decision to keep these 11"x 7" was better for me to work with right now. But I may change the size a little later on. I need to get start on it soon. I'm not sure if I will just do a new techniques quilt or just a February theme. I could incorporate both I guess. It was my goal to complete the journal quilt within the first two weeks of each month. Well, my goals, I can fudge a little bit. I'll start it this weekend. Photos coming!

We had a birthday party for my grandson at a childrens party/game place Sunday. It was so crowd with at least twelve other birthday parties going on at the same time. There was barely standing room. Unfortunately, some of the parents got a little irritable and started acting out. We still managed to enjoy his Birthday party and he had a ball.

Sunflower

rainsstudio — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:51:19 +0000

This sunflower is the second picture I did on peltex. I love sunflowers. They show up in lots of my work.
I usually try to keep these cards around 4"x 6" in size. I really enjoyed doing both these cards. I'm still on track with my goals and I have been creating several fiber post cards a day. I need to start my journal quilt for this month. I don't have any idea what I want to do for this month. Some pictures of my journal quilt projects are coming soon. Wola! Pictures you say. It's about time!

Fyber Post Cards/Flickr

rainsstudio — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:10:58 +0000

Just heard back from Susan Lenz and I' m happy about trading for one of her lovely cards http://cyberfyberexhibition.blogspot.com/ All of her cards our beautiful and it was hard to chose just one. They are going fast too. I have really been working hard at getting more of my work out. That was one of my goals this year. I also have several art paper collages that I did last month and they turn out beautifully. Pictures coming soon!

Well, I have open up a flickr acct and I have uploaded lots of photos. Now the next step will be to get them into the widget on my sidebar here. I am still working on trying get some of my images into the body of this blog. I haven't ask for help yet, because I believe in trying to do things yourself first. That will be my learning curve. I have so much enjoyed working on these fiber post cards. I now have 32 cards and still going. They are so small and I have been creating several a day. I read some where about the fiber post card challenge to create one card a day for a year or something like. Well, for me I kinda just fell into it. I really intended just to work on my journal quilts (one a month) this year. Just as a challenge for myself to work with some new techniques. Another of my goals for this year, to challenge myself to try some new techniques. I am working on February's quilt now, but that is going to be another post. But, I didn't know the post cards were so addictive when I started. They are so much fun and small pieces of art are not that much of a time investment. When I locate the info about the post card challenge, I'll include it here. Pictures coming! Soon!

Fiber Post Cards

rainsstudio — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:14:24 +0000

I did some drawings Sunday night on Peltex and they look pretty nice. Well, at first I tried color pencils to color the drawing, but I wanted more vibrant colors. Then I tried some oil pastels and they work perfect. I only did two of these which will be gifts, maybe. I have three other fiber post cards in the works which I want to include in the Cyber Fyber Exhibition. Susan Lenz will trade a post card for each person that sends in a post card for the exhibit. There are so many beautiful choices, it is hard to decide which one you want. The ones I did are a patchwork of black and white fabrics with a strip of color added. I call these post cards ecilpse #1, #2, #3. Well I hope I will be able to make a trade for one of her lovely cards. I'm not sure now which one to send to the exhibit yet and I still might send one of the drawings on the peltex. I am going to add stitching to the drawn ones to finish those up. And will most likely add stitching and beads to the others also.

All the information is there on the cyberfyber blog about this international event, scheduled to take place January 8th, 2009 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

http://cyberfyberexhibition.blogspot.com/