Happy Cactus Monday and Arty SoulSisters Page for Soul Herself

The first half of Sunday was fun and artfilled. I'd finished my sketchbook page for Marianne which I posted yesterday...her cat, Sjimmie coming to California to meet my cat Henry V. Then I worked on Soulbrushes page which is lower down on this post. But first I'm starting off with what I did third. I've been promising to get back to being more creative on Cactus Monday and here it is. I took one of my hand painted (with acrylic paints) fabrics as my background. Already stamped too...and free motion sewed some cacti and sun on it with gold metallic threads. The tension on my machine is loose and I liked how the loose black bobbin threads came to the top looking like spikes on the cacti.

I added some fabric crayolas to the mix and colored on top of the dried paint for more colors...

Then I sewed a strand of gold beads around the whole cloth sandwich for extra glitter and sparkle.

It shines, whatcha think?

Here starts Souls page for ArtySoulSisters traveling sketchbook....

Soul spent many years living in South Africa and loves giraffes and other wild beasties from there!

Click all photos to see brighter color and more details Again I used a sheet of painted and stamped muslin

adding cut out fabric animals from a tea towel she sent me from her last visit

to South Africa to visit family!

I added beads she gave me too just because she can't send just an ATC to trade

but has to add extra embellishments she thinks I can use in my art making.

How right she is and so I did

for her! Along with some other found beads (thrift stores)

and laid the whole piece on burlap

also found and reused as backing and frame.

We can only imagine what other animals are hiding in the jungle around these!

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And on Sunday late afternoon DH finally said he'd like to visit the ER

to find out why his fever was not going away...

So we went there and three hours later

left with some antibiotics for a bladder infection.

The doctor thought it was H1N1, but

it wasn't.

Whew!

Now he has to wait for the meds to take effect, the fever to go away

and then he can return to his hectic life at school.

I may have to sit on him to keep him home another day. ************

I'm so glad I had lots of time to create this weekend.

I need to make some hanging sleeves for the art show pieces.

Might do some tonight.

HCM