Bead Soup.

Bead soup, oh how I love to make you and oh how my work just loves to eat you up. I was inspired to make bead soups by Beadfx in Toronto. Years ago I bought a few bead soups there and the end result was freeform peyote jewellery.

I loved the concept of making bead soups so much so that I started to make my own. Yeah I just put together different types of beads ( seedbeads, accent beads ) in a bowl and mixed them all up. Sometimes we have to go back to base. I now work at Beadfx and I saw a soup that I really loved ( thanks Rosemary)and bought two. One I used in my piece Oh Canada and the other I'm going to make some beads with.

On Saturday I had to make some soups at Beadfx thanks to Rosemary, the store's manageress. I had a blast. So now I'm off to let my work eat them all up!!!

Oh Canada eh!!! Ô Canada! ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ!( Uu Kanata! )

July is finished eh!!! Previously I mentioned that I started May, skipped June and was working on July. Well July's finished and I have to complete May and June. July is dedicated to Canada, my home away from home.

I really wanted to finish this piece in time for Canada Day but it didn't happen. My next deadline was July 13, which marked the anniversary of my coming here. So yes it's about celebrations eh!! It's a celebration of my gratitude to God for guiding me into coming here. It's a celebration of my gratitude for my family ( my husband and children - I've found a new life). It's a celebration for finding new friends and opportunities to expand my creativity. It's a celebration of all the many races and cultures in this beautiful country that so many of us now call home. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Y3L0s1m2o

Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

July's piece!!!

I'm working away at July's Bead Journal Project piece. I started May's and skipped June's for now, but July's is well on the way to completion. I'll post it asap. I'm out of here because I'm going back to work.

April is for Khes!!!

Yes April is done and it's for Khes!!! Khes is my stepdaughter, who turned 13 on April 28th. It's amazing how time passes, the little girl I met a few years ago is now a teenager and she is just getting more beautiful daily.

The piece is about the new life that spring brings and the focus is on the "battimamzelle" - the local name for the dragonfly in Trinidad and Tobago. So Khessy, April is for you love for all the joy and so much more you bring.

Another Canvas Still!!!

Another has been painted. I didn't know what to cook today for lunch so I had to be creative. So I made Fish n Chips or Fish n Fries whatever you may!! So see my creative juices are flowing in many different ways.

I'm using another canvas!!!

Yesterday I got up early and made myself two pairs of earrings and somehow felt bored during the day. I had things to do but wasn't up to doing them, I felt tired of the routine.

The day before I used a different canvas. I worked in my front yard. Yeah my mother will be proud - I pulled up some grass and worked on my growing garden till sun down. I didn't know I would enjoy it so much. Yeah I used a different canvas!!!

Back to yesterday!! The garage door needed a fresh coat of paint and the weather was good so yeah I used another canvas!!! I even played outdoors with my son and had a real good time. Sometimes in life we have to use a different canvas, a canvas that sometimes only the mind's eye can see. I felt happy and was bored no more, so I'm taking a different approach to living and working on the depth of my life. I read recently the " we cannot control the length of our lives, but we can the depth" so that's what I doing. So as I mentioned several times before I'm using a different canvas and yes I'm loving it.

Blank Canvas

Sometimes, it's good to leave the canvas blank for a while. I've done it several times. My craft lecturer at teachers' college gave me a canvas a few years ago and advised me to paint it white. Well I got my brother Marc to do it.

That canvas was blank for a long time. I eventually drew on it, but again it remained unpainted for a long time. The completed painting is now on the wall of my parents' home ( hopefully). But it was a process, it didn't happen all at once. So it's ok to leave the canvas blank.

There are times when I'm bursting with ideas, but still I feel unproductive because I cannot create anything. That's ok too. The wire has been calling my name and yes I've made a few pieces, that call has to continue and I'll continue to answer but that too will take time. Sometimes I have to step back and observe, sometimes I have to sketch and at other times I just play. Don't get me wrong even when I step back some type of play is going on in my mind, I'm just dancing to the rhythm of a different drum. So for now the canvas is blank and that's ok.