Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Just passing this on...

In a letter/email I received form Jenna Avery (Sensitive Souls)...
Enjoy.

 


Let Your Light Shine


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
 
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
 
It is our light, not our darkness,
That most frightens us.
 
We ask ourselves, who am I
To be brilliant, gorgeous,
Talented and fabulous?
 
Actually, who are you not to be?
 
You are a child of God.
 
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
 
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people
Won’t feel insecure around you.
 
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.
 
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
 
And as we let our light shine,
We unconsciously give other people
Permission to do the same.
 
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.

Written by Marianne Williamson

Popularized by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 Inaugural Speech 


I guess I wanted to pass this on because it really hits home to me as an artist...
as a person!  

Beaded Shadow Boxes





Well, here are two beaded shadow boxes I tried doing when I first learned to make some of the flowers from Diane Fitzgerald's book "The Beaded Garden".  I was looking for something new to try and there they were!  I have been interested in the idea of using beads on fabric to create a textured "painting", and as I was working with the beaded flowers, and then using some of the old French Beaded Flower methods of the leaves and stems, I finally put something together.  For a time, I was just making flowers, leaves and stems...over and over, while I tried to figure out what to do with all of them!  One day I held a bunch in my hand a Voila!, I knew what I wanted.  My husband loves the bug in the lower right the best of all.

I sewed the work on to suede fabric for the first piece, not so good!  The suede moved all over the place and was waaaay to light weight for all the beadwork!  Ok, lesson learned.  I used just stiff, colored felt for the second one and I feel this look is more
towards what I had in mind.  Art is always a work in progress..yes?

Anyway, this is where I started with beads and fabric...more to come...

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Starting out

Well, here I go, into the world of Blogging!
I don't have anything to write just now,
as I am still putting things (photos, etc)
together.
I look forward to expressing my ideas to
any & all that will read and are interested...
about Beading, Art, and all in my life that
I feel comfortable sharing.
More later...
HAve a good day, and don't forget to breathe!