It's a Project

First there was the wedding and lots of company.   I had so much fun...maybe too much fun cuz now then the work began.

 We started on a home improvement projects. Our home circ 1912,  needs some fixing.  We have the 'aluminum guys' coming to do some outside work, soon we hope  :))   The arborist and crew will be pruning trees and removing one  :(
We are doing some inside work. Gone is the rusty brown coloured carpet.  Underneath we found  a hardwood perimeter and a soft wood center, very splintery.  This centre received an immediate painting, a couple of coats of floor paint in a light colour. The hard wood needs some work as well, all together not too bad.  As I am not a fan of wall to wall carpet, I am very glad the carpet is gone.

Also gone is the old green dog/fold out couch...and as we are mostly? empty nesters there will be a re-arranging of the spaces/rooms, a more practical approach to our space and habits.  Of course the couch is still on the deck, as it needs to be separated from all it's metal for re-cycle.  Fun with a sledge hammer.
Stay tuned for the wall colours...and such.
Happy October....my witchey and warlock friends.
gudrun

Favourite Places (a challenge)

I belong to a group of fibre artists. We challenge ourselves to create pieces around a theme.
We have had two challenges thus far. The previous one was done this past Sept. and based on the Elements. January's challenge was called

"Favourite Places". This tries to be representational of all the places that land (no pun intended)
 in my 'favourite places' file.  Sadly I was unable to come up with a way to depict the plurality of  places. So this depicts two things that are in all the places I consider favourites. I love trees, and cannot be far from water.
Happy Friday,
gudrun

My Second Interpretive Challenge

I spent more time reading various philosophies based
on the four earthly elements, than I did creating my
interpretation.

4 elements

I kept coming back to a philosophy that  equates air with thought, fire with passion water with serenity and earth as maturity. Musings:
fire does not pass through water,
fire is reflected in water,
 thought feeds passion
passion falters with serenity
thought is in serenity,
                                     thought slows and then, no more.

Loose threads, attached with help of wash-away interfacing. on a snippet style background.

I had difficulty with the photographing,  what doesn't show well here is the yellow thread 'of air' running through the piece.
It was fun  :))
gudrun