WIP ~ Fiber Sculpture ~ Day Four

Well, it took me awhile to get to this point!  Waiting for paper to dry and building a couple of canvases that would hold this piece!  Plus,  not so patiently waiting for supplies to arrive.  With all that being said; I have been working on the parts and pieces of this rather large piece.

We start with a blank canvas.......and boy is it big and blank!!  Those faint of heart, turn away now!  Looking at this much canvas and knowing it is up to me to fill it is an awe-inspiring and somewhat frightening sight.  And this is only canvas number one.  Canvas number two is ready as well and sitting in the wings!!

As you can see...I built on to the end to make it a total of eight feet!  The discoloring you see there is from modeling paste to fill the seam.  You won't see that when it is all covered up.  Now to see the first strips of color finally going on.

The floral on the bottom is wool and comes from a large piece of fabric that the client used to cover some chairs in their lobby.  We thought incorporating it into the piece was a great idea.  The next piece is a cotton suede-like material.  I have sewn them together and attached them with a great sticky glue called, Yes.  It grabs and holds very well and won't allow the fabric to curl.  And when dry...permanent!  Oh and it dries clear too!  Love this stuff!  It comes in a tub.  Now for a close-up!

Well there you have it!  We have lift off!  Next is attaching one of three "tubes" made of Buckrum.  Buckrum is a stiff mesh material that is used when you want to make a stiff fabric shape.  They use this for hat making all the time.  These tubes will help me to undulate the material.  I want it to come off of the canvas and appear to be "waves" of color and texture.  Once I make the tube, I will stuff it with poly fill to help keep the rounded shape.  I will glue and sew it unto the canvas.

Hope you enjoyed the beginning process.  Thanks ever so much for stopping by!  I will make some fresh coffee so that we can sit and chat awhile.

Have a blessed and magical day!
Hugging you
SueAnn

Random Tuesday....The wind doth blow!!

And it is really blowing!  Yesterday the winds were clocked at 65 MPH!!  Yikes!  I saw a crow flying backwards!!!  Now that is a sight to see.  My trash cans were blown everywhere and I had a large box held down by several logs and it is totally gone!  Can't find it anywhere!  Weird!!!!!


I got the large canvasses built and they are now ready for me to start putting the pieces and parts together.  Though I still have a lot of sewing to do.  I will definitely be showing pics of the process.  And for Bob who is reading this...I am working as fast as I can.  I hope to have them done by the time you return from you vacation.

My Daughter-in law is having her graduation ceremony this Friday.  She worked so hard and has achieved Sum Cum Lauda!!  She is a licensed teacher and currently has her own first grade class.  What  a wonderful teacher she has become and her kids are so lucky to have her.  Way to go Ginger!!!

Dr. John had a rough week last week.  His back molar was bothering him.  Has been bothering him off and on for about one year.  Dentist keeps fooling with it.  First a filling, then a root canal!!  So he goes in again, complaining about this tooth...dentist checks and says, "Well this time we have to pull it!  It is cracked in half!"  The point?  I said to them both to pull it 8 months ago!!  Sigh!  So he was a little under the weather for a couple of days but he actually recovered quite nicely.  And we all know how men can be with such things???  He did real well!  Thank the good Lord!!

I have been walking for 45 to 50 minutes almost every day!  I am so proud of myself!  Even in these horrible spring winds...I have been out there.  My good friend and neighbor is walking with me and that makes all the difference.  Between the dogs and the hills, I need all the support I can get.

I have been looking at those gorgeous RED washer and dryers lately.  I am so lusting after them.  I have perfectly good Maytags and there is nothing wrong with them.  Darn it!!!  I keep telling Dr. John how these OLD Maytags' use a lot of energy and the dryer does take forever to dry.  The new ones only take 37 minutes to wash and dry.  And there is a steam function.  Ooooo!   Be still my heart!  I will keep working on him.

I think this is enough Randomness for you today!  If you have any Random thoughts you would like to share.  Link up at The UnMom  and tell us all about it!

Have a magical and blessed day!
Hugging you
SueAnn

Musical Monday!!

What's moving you today?? Go HERE and link up!!

Have a magical and blessed day!!
Hugging you
SueAnn

Happy Mother's Day!!!

-Google at theholidayspot.com-

Historical antecedents

Lamberts thought^[who?] this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods.{Encyclopædia Britannica|(1959)Vol.15,p. 849} This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (15 March) to 18 March.
The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.
In Europe there were several long standing traditions where a specific Sunday was set aside to honor motherhood and mothers such as Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday celebrations are part of the liturgical calendar in several Christian denominations, including Anglicans, and in the Catholic calendar is marked as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and your "mother" church (the main church of the area). Historians think that children who served in houses were given a day off on that date so they could visit their families. The children would pick wild flowers along the way to place them on the church or to give them to their mothers as gifts.^[2]
International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time in 28 February 1909, in the US,^[3] by which time Anna Jarvis had already begun her national campaign in the US. It is now celebrated in many countries on March 8.
The "Mother's Day Proclamation" by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate Mother's Day in the United States. Written in 1870, Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to Howe's feminist belief that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level.

-Found on Wikipedia via Google-

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!  
Hugs and Love,
SueAnn

PS.  Have a magical and blessed day!

Silent Saturday ~ Part Fourteen

}  Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone

Roots and leaves themselves alone are these,
Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods and pond-side,
Breast-sorrel and pinks of love, fingers that wind around tighter
    than vines,
Gushes from the throats of birds hid in the foliage of trees as the
    sun is risen,
Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living
    sea, to you O sailors!
Frost-mellow'd berries and Third-month twigs offer'd fresh to young
    persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,
Love-buds put before you and within you whoever you are,
Buds to be unfolded on the old terms,
If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring
    form, color, perfume, to you,
If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers,
    fruits, tall branches and trees.

Walt Whitman ~ Leaves of Grass ( a segment )

 from EveryPoet.com

There is something about a spring rain.  Cleansing...refreshing...melodic...soothing to ones' soul.  It is powerful...it changes the landscape into a magical wonderland.  Hope you enjoyed this journey!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  And have a magical and blessed day!
Hugging you
SueAnn