Hello, It’s Spring Break

... and it's almost over. Rest assured that I'm alive...tired, but alive. Spring break was a tiny breather. A lot has happened since my last post. I'll be brief. I've been working a lot - 7 days a week a lot - so I upcycled as a reward. These are smaller than the ones I…

Greenspan

When I created the parrot for Vivian, I had some extra pieces and created something with them (instead of putting them back in the cramped box). I named this piece, Greenspan, because I like how it looks like it's expanding off the canvas. In this span of green is also looks like a flower, a…

Unintentional Predictions

Nov. 19, 2021 I taught upcycling courses this summer, and one of the projects was to make a junk mail collage (you may have seen some of my experiments last year). Junk mail collages are much easier and quicker to do than the Cooling Triangular Collage that I had posted earlier this week. My students…

Cooling Triangular Collage

Nov. 16, 2021 Did you know that triangles are the strongest shape? Now you do! That's why you see triangles in everything that needs to be sturdy and hold tons of weight, from bridges, cranes (in construction), and architecture. Therefore, triangles were what I had cut from the strips of cardstock that were not the…

Fairy Garden

Upon hearing an acquaintance was injured from a fall and had to have surgery, I offered to make an upcycled art piece for her. I learned that she liked green and yellow and would prefer to have the art piece stand. With these conditions, I got to work. The scene I ended up making had…