Fabric Ferns

I had a plan that didn't work....but I'm left with these three fern pieces....which I like, but they are small....they were going to be adhered to another piece, but they sure didn't look good, so I scrapped that idea altogether...sometimes I do make some big mistakes and this was one of them.  I'm starting to feel like I'm getting my mojo back...doing these three simple pieces kind of kicked started me and I'm now working on a larger floral piece..currently cutting out all the parts and pieces to fuse together before I sew and finish off....actually my first in my floral series that I intend to place in the gallery at the end of summer.  My sales have been in such a slump that I need new ideas on the wall for sure. 
Customers will make great comments on my work, take my card and brochure; but no much in sales.  Good thing I don't rely on sales to live on...I would have stopped a long time ago.

Part of my own slump is what I'm going through taking care of hubby....it's a lot of work and it's constant, or at least it seems constant.  There are times when he's napping during the day that I can take advantage of that down time and get in some studio time of my own.  And I'm considering dropping one of my bowling days to accommodate for myself...it's hard to do because another bowler needs me to take her bowling because she doesn't drive/partially blind.  And she says she doesn't have another way to get to bowling except from me.  I don't want to disappoint, but I may have to do so.
And the others I bowl with rely on my also...I'm the money collector, score keeper, computer changer when it scores wrong and moral support..we have a good time, but it is time consuming and it's not league play because 9-tap is not a league game.  Nothing counts, it's  mainly practice. 

Must end for now...off to Costco to pick up supplies..can't be gone long as I'm leaving hubby to fend for himself. 

Hubby on the Mend

Hubby is on the mend.....he's getting around much easier than when he came home, has improved greatly over the last couple of weeks which is starting to give me some time to spend out in my art studio....which I truly need to do.  I'm in between projects and really need to start something asap for my own piece of mind.  I have been collecting images of flowers and I've begun to draw up some designs to work up to get myself started with the floral project of work that I intend to create to show in the gallery in the fall.  I like to be way ahead of a deadline, so I'm starting now.  This way I know if I'm going to follow through on the project or not and will have time to create something else before the time is up.  I am truly a type A person when it comes to my art...I don't mess around, I create...when I mess around I get totally unhappy with everything and I end of stopping and throwing it all away.  I'm more of a thinker until I've collected all the ideas and tools and then I jump in with both feet and go for it.  I'm ready to jump in!!!!!