General Creativity

Today I put the finishing touches on my 1st stained glass circles project and hung it in the bedroom window.

My best friend Abbie has 2 adorable twin girls, who are 3 years old. Super cute. They keep her very busy and she’s an awesome mom. She’s been working on painting a flower border and an apple tree on their bedroom wall. She asked if I’d like to help out, so I went over Sunday and painted a cherry blossom branch! I will be going back to turn it into a full tree.

Almost exactly a year ago [how weird is that?] I started working on my 6 panel art/painting project. The project actually began in 2004/2005-ish when I bought the 6 panels of canvas board, laid them out on the floor in my old apartment, and sketched a big tree onto them. The plan was to paint 3 panels dark and 3 panels light so together they make one picture but half day/half night.

For many months I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a stained glass project framed by wood. As in, finding the perfect wood frame and then creating something to put in it. I was partly inspired by stained glass projects my friend and glass mentor Abbie has done, especially her light box which is a 3 dimensional wooden box with a front made of multi colored beach glass, and filled with an LED light string that slowly changes colors. It’s mesmerizing!

The last time I Created Art While Intoxicated was in 2013. As I’ve said before, I rarely get drunk [which is why there were no 2014 or 2015 Intoxicated Art posts]. It’s not often I decide to really let go. But sometimes I do, and sometimes while in a state of joyful inebriation I feel compelled to be creative. Two weekends ago I drank 4 Mike’s Mango Punches and informed hubby that I absolutely HAD TO GO PAINT.

Last month I began work on my first stained glass circles project. I cut circles and wrapped the edges in copper foil. This weekend I soldered the edges. One step closer!

My 2016 Projects list includes “Create 3 difficult stained glass pieces”.  I’ve been wanting to make a stained glass project involving circles for quite a while, so today I cut 9 circles of varying size and color.

After about 40 hours of work, I present you with my FINAL favorite photos project, featuring my favorite pictures from 2011-2015. I deleted over 15,000 digital photos [!!!] from these 5 years. I’ve gotten into the habit lately, particularly since starting this blog, of taking about 20 photos of everything. Over time, that creates a mind-boggling amount of duplicates!

After finishing my photo scanning project, I decided to look through my 15 years of digital photos and post my favorites in 5-year groups. On Thursday I posted my favorites from 2001-2005. Here are my favorites from 2006 through 2010.

I bought my first digital camera in 2001. My recent photo scanning project has gotten me curious to look back through the past 15 years of digital photos. So without further ado, here are my favorite photos from 2001-2005.