Miracle Life: card swap

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Thursday

My Creative Space

The past 2 weeks were not easy for me with my daughter's birthday party, urgent translations to work at, and a virus my body is still fighting with. So my muse had to wait, until I had enough time and energy to serve her. That doesn't mean she was happy with that and didn't scream at me, until she got me into arting. So I made some Christmas cards

and continued working at the painting I have showed you 2 times already. It could be finished now, although this isn't the very final stage of it.

For the time being, it's almost impossible for me to show my works online, as my old cheap photo camera fairly died. My wonderful daughter in law sent me hers and I received it today, but it is a professional one, and I don't know, when I will dare to start using it. Besides, the USB cable and the instructions are missing. I hope to find the instructions online and learn at least to shoot pics soon, than I'll need to find and buy the right USB cable to upload the images to the compy. The pics you see in this post were shot with my daughter's smart phone and not very good, no matter how much I tried to edit them.

Therefore, I'll not even try to show you images of the 7(!) new cards I received from my artist friends, as they would no way do justice to the adorable miniature works of art they truly are. Please, bear with me, until I can depict them properly.

To make the waiting less hard, I can show you a piece of the winter wonderland we are living in right now (shot by my daughter and edited by me).

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My Creative Space

Last week, I was pretty busy with translations, but I painted more or less every day, that I'm really happy about. First of all, the cards for the second swap are finished and I hope to send them out tomorrow. And I have received 2 new ones from my swap partners.

by Louisa Dubois

by Teresa Capaldo

And the mixed media piece I started last week has morphed quite a lot and looks like this now

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My Creative Space

Last week has been busy for me with translation jobs, but something really exciting is brewing around me:

A YEAR LONG CHALLENGE "A PIECE A WEEK"

Taking inspiration from similar challenges, we started to play with the idea of doing some art at least once a week for one whole year in one of the art groups I'm in on Facebook, and, now, the idea is developing and spreading. I'm pretty much ready to host it here on my blog and to create the respective groups on Facebook and Flickr. As soon, as I have some free time, I'll start working on it. As it is planned to launch on January 1 2013, there is still enough time for that, right?

Fact is, it made me so excited, that I started to work at the largest painting in my life so far (60x80cm), in spite of the almost complete lack of day light here lately. The next morning after I had put down the collage layer on the canvas, it turned out, that the frame had twisted. It was kind of a bad news, as I liked, what I saw on it, but then I started to realize, how the belief, that the painting would most probably never be marketable other than as a print, gave me much more freedom just to play on it and enjoy the process. It looks somewhat like this now.

What else has happened in my creative space last week?

I received a new card :)

by Elin Folkesson

Sorry for the not so good images. I managed to get some better light into my studio/kitchen by getting rid of the shade and exchanging the usual light bulb with a day light one (many thanx to everyone, who helped me figure out that solution). That gives me the opportunity to paint and to see the colors right, but the amount of light still isn't enough for my cheap camera without tripod.

(Just remembered, that I have to finish the cards for the second swap ASAP, if I don't want to be late for the dead line :)

And I started to crochet a Holiday Wreath inspired by this young man's tutorial

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Friday

My Creative Space

The last one has been a really busy week for me with regular translation projects to work at and our dog girl been spayed on Thursday.

At the beginning of the week, I discovered a good amount of sea glass laying around in a box for about a year unlisted. I sorted them and shot pics of each of the batches. Although the images aren't the best because of the lack of day light, I started to list the batches one by one in this section of my supplies shop.

Don't know how, but I managed to finish the knitted set for my sister, to add some details to the new batch of cards I showed you last week, and to put some paint down on these 2 new canvas boards as well.

And I received some new unique cards from my swap partners

by Gail Cohen

by Jann Parkes

by Michele Bishop

by Aneeta Bhandari

by Shelly Penko

The first cards I received you can see here and here

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Thursday

My Creative Space

Lately, there is so little day light here, that arting and showing art on-line is almost impossible. Knitting is much easier with artificial light. At least for me. So I have started this set for my sister.

A batch of cards for another swap is emerging as well.

And I have received some more cards from my swap partners.

by Donna Munro

by Teresa Berg

by Sandra Belegi

by Phyllis Fell

And I have started to play on my first ever canvas boards AND LOVING IT! :) The first 4 of them look like this for now

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My Creative Space - Heaps of Joy

The whole week, I was pretty busy, but today, oh, miracle, I have a free afternoon! YAY! Just edited all the pics and can take my time to create this post. Mmmm! Bliss! And it's sunny and rather warm outside! Even more bliss! And it's a super quiet house in the middle of the school brake, as my daughter is visiting her friend. Heaps of bliss! :)

First of all, I want to show you another precious visitor, who arrived on Tuesday: It's Gnomey on his wold tour between the members of my favorite Facebook group. :)

Like I said, it has been a pretty busy week for me, so I just continued working at the pieces I had already started: reknitted the pink cap for myself, almost finished the cap for my daughter, and these 3 manadalas could be finished.