Dear Friends~
Thank you SO much for your responses yesterday, they really warmed my heart! You all are MY inspiration!!!! I was amazed at how many of you identified and left a kind word, it really made my day. This morning I was a little leary of the phone ringing early and having a rocky start again, but it was smooth sailing, so I was happy for a quiet, uneventful morning!
Anyhoo, today I am off again to shop/prepare/etc. Each day I pick one main thing I want to accomplish. Yesterday it was FOOD shopping, a trip to the "bulk" store that I don't like, but I had help, thanks to my daughter, and we will be well stocked for the holiday cooking and visiting. But as you know, I fit in some time for"square" biz! At the moment, I have some other works-in-progress, but I will focus on those more AFTER the holiday! In the meantime, I have a quick, creative "play" exercise to share with you that I did yesterday. My lovely daughter brought me a special "art junk" present....a lovely little Anthopologie catalog. I thought that was so sweet of her to think of me and tote that down here with her stuff. I'm lucky that my kids encourage me to keep creating. I know that many are in love with anthropologie and I can see why. I adore their catalogs because of all the yummy colors. I thought of what I could do as far as marrying this lovely catalog that was on my chopping block with my love for the tiny squares. I decided to cut out my fave pages (perish the thought) and took them to my paper cutter, and, you guessed it, "one inched them". Then, as a creative exercise this morning, with my second cup of coffee (you know, the one I have AFTER I get up), I started making quilt squares designs with the cut up squares while everyone slept! 
This is one of the things that I love about these squares, it get's your eyes to focus on something smaller, but at the same time combine it to make a bigger cohesive and detailed piece! I love looking at all the color and design possibilites, i really think it get's me in the creative flow. So, this is what I did with squares for today. I also painted a few watercolor pages last night to use as backgrounds for future squares. Here are my nice little square soldiers, stacked in my "in-box". 
So, for those of you who say you don't have time, just do one step of something today, nothing get's done all at once, at least for me it doesn't. Then, when I'm too tired to paint, but just want to collage, I get out my prepped squares and I'm ready to go. Ok, so enough square talk, I gotta go work on my list combo's. I'm glad you all enjoyed my "list for my lists" comment. Have a great day everyone! xxoo Lia
Thank you SO much for your responses yesterday, they really warmed my heart! You all are MY inspiration!!!! I was amazed at how many of you identified and left a kind word, it really made my day. This morning I was a little leary of the phone ringing early and having a rocky start again, but it was smooth sailing, so I was happy for a quiet, uneventful morning!
Anyhoo, today I am off again to shop/prepare/etc. Each day I pick one main thing I want to accomplish. Yesterday it was FOOD shopping, a trip to the "bulk" store that I don't like, but I had help, thanks to my daughter, and we will be well stocked for the holiday cooking and visiting. But as you know, I fit in some time for"square" biz! At the moment, I have some other works-in-progress, but I will focus on those more AFTER the holiday! In the meantime, I have a quick, creative "play" exercise to share with you that I did yesterday. My lovely daughter brought me a special "art junk" present....a lovely little Anthopologie catalog. I thought that was so sweet of her to think of me and tote that down here with her stuff. I'm lucky that my kids encourage me to keep creating. I know that many are in love with anthropologie and I can see why. I adore their catalogs because of all the yummy colors. I thought of what I could do as far as marrying this lovely catalog that was on my chopping block with my love for the tiny squares. I decided to cut out my fave pages (perish the thought) and took them to my paper cutter, and, you guessed it, "one inched them". Then, as a creative exercise this morning, with my second cup of coffee (you know, the one I have AFTER I get up), I started making quilt squares designs with the cut up squares while everyone slept!
This is one of the things that I love about these squares, it get's your eyes to focus on something smaller, but at the same time combine it to make a bigger cohesive and detailed piece! I love looking at all the color and design possibilites, i really think it get's me in the creative flow. So, this is what I did with squares for today. I also painted a few watercolor pages last night to use as backgrounds for future squares. Here are my nice little square soldiers, stacked in my "in-box".
So, for those of you who say you don't have time, just do one step of something today, nothing get's done all at once, at least for me it doesn't. Then, when I'm too tired to paint, but just want to collage, I get out my prepped squares and I'm ready to go. Ok, so enough square talk, I gotta go work on my list combo's. I'm glad you all enjoyed my "list for my lists" comment. Have a great day everyone! xxoo Lia
