30 Day Creativity Challenge: Day 9

I found these magnetic letters at a Thrift Store, but didn't like the primary colors

I painted them with Sharpie Paint pens, it took about 5 coats to cover the red one!  

Love the outcome!  Joy, joy, joy!  EnJoy your weekend friends!!

30 Day Creativity Challenge: Day 8

Wow, so much time has passed since I've posted something new. Tsk, tsk on me.  But it doesn't take very long before I'm bitten by the bug to create something... anything.  I did this assemblage tonight.  I started it yesterday and I finished it tonight.  I like it.  First I secured an old set of tongs into a ceramic insulator, then added the turkey feather, decorative hook and finally the skeleton key. It makes me smile.  

Sadly, the key I had to use is new, I don't have any old ones, so this will be replaced with an antique key just as soon as I get my hands on one. 

The antique hook has been moving around with me since I was a kid, and the Turkey feather was a gift left from that gang of turkeys I wrote about last month.  Love those guys!

Some of my favorites on Etsy...

Reclaimed Art Assemblage Flowers

Overload - A Landrover

Nuts and Bolts Animals

Winter Bird's Nest

Up in the Crows Nest

30 Day Creativity Challenge: Day 7

Inspiration can come from anywhere at any time. Your imagination, riding the bus, doodling, nature, poverty, need, to name a few.  I'm so grateful that I was raised by parents that read to me, sang me to sleep and didn't pressure me to be anything other than myself.  I think it allowed my mind and soul to develop in such a way that I let things be absorbed, no matter how odd they might seem to someone else.

It's totally normal for me to see something IN something else, that others might not see.  I have these tiles in my bathroom.  I love them.  I picked them out when we were building the addition to our house.  They're very amoeba-like.  I see something new in them every day.

Exposed varnished brick chimney in my house

Dried Sea Oats from my garden

Old Pottery Shard in Moss 

I love textures, patterns and combinations.  They inspire me.

I've been crocheting this green string on and off for a couple of years now.  I'm not a great crocheter.  My grandmother, mother and sister all took a turn, at one time or another, trying to teach me to crochet when I was young, but I couldn't catch on.  Then one day at work I asked a co-worker (who was happily crocheting away at lunch time) to teach  me.  We got a little workshop together and about four of us learned how to crochet together.  I've been hooked ever since!  I certainly do love to do it!  I've made some scarves for myself and my kids, but for some reason I just really love to crochet this damn green string! And I'm not interested in turning it into anything other than roping.  I've made yards and yards of it!  Weird, I know.

I just love it wrapped around these old spools!