Day of Family Surgery; Painted Fabric for Felted Flowers; ATC from Lynette; Felted Woolly ATC for Marianne

My brother survived his dental surgery just fine today. I had a good time in his town (Berkeley) visiting a thrift store on the day of it's annual jewelry sale. I found this bundle of beads some from Morocco, some from China, some Egyptian, some metal, all wonderful. A ton at a very very very good price too. While waiting for the surgery to get done I did this zentangle and he got out of there before I finished it!

I also drew a few others waiting their turn for the doctor to call them in.

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When I got home I got my paints out and painted fabric for the background of my

flower wall hanging.

I love that the paint on the table is so pretty. I haven't cleaned it up either. I may just leave it. Then I called my neighbor friend, Donna, over to see what I had done.

She gave me very good feed back.

Donna is a painter and knows about colors.

She showed me how my green stems were getting lost

in the green background I had painted. How it needed more orange

and rust.

she also said the sky could use some maroon and orange to pop the flowers

out more. (I think she said orange...she told me how to look at the color wheel to

find complimentary colors. I need to do that).

I just painted by the seat of my pants. Blue for sky, green for earth,

Without giving any thought to how it would go with the flowers.

But I get what she is saying and will play around with it

and see if I can fix this.

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Then I got this delightful trade

ATC

from Lynette today in the mail.

She made this using real flowers and leaves.

Isn't it pretty?

I just love it.

Thanks Lynette!!!

So glad we traded too.

She made this sweet envelop for the card out of paper

which she folded to hold it.

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I recently asked friend Marianne to trade ATCs with me. She had one on her blog that looked very California Hippie and I felt it was calling out to me. So I asked for it. Since I was in the mode of making mandala-like fiber art and Marianne is the Queen of Mandalas, I whipped up this little ATC sized wool and lace felted mandala (like) ATC for Marianne. The second picture is the back of the ATC. I like how the felted fibers show through to the other side in a more pastel way and how the red metallic threads from my bobbin brighten up the back.

Yes, per my style, it goes a little bit out of the exact correct size of the ATC box!

That's me

less than perfection

that's how you know it is

art by lynn

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