Beading and Robins

I started working on my March BJP2010 journal piece. My friend, Susan, suggested I do a kite for March! Susan mentioned that March was kite flying time for kids and I guess adults. hmmmm Guess we didn't fly many kites on the farm back in Pennsylvania or it's one of those things I chose to forget! I can just see me, being the coordinated kid I was (NOT!) flying a kite. I'm not even good at it now with the grand kids! But I did think Susan's kite idea was a great one. So....
I had a yard of fabric I that I tried some 'tray dyeing' on last year and thought it rather ugly. I brought it to Florida to over dye or shibori but as I was trying to find a piece of fabric for my background I thought this piece would work. I sandwiched and quilted it, trying to keep zentangles in mind a bit with the quilting.


Then I did a zentangle for the kite on paper. I just laid it on top of my quilted piece.

You'll see in the next picture where I started the beading that I switched the circles and put them on the bottom right. i think this will look much better because of the angles of the two sides. I am having fun working on this but those circles sure take time!! Whew! But it's good TV work so I won't complain.

I'm doing the kite in all primary colors (red, blue, yellow & adding green). I'm also going to have the kite tails made of beads and 'TA DA' use my peyote tubes on it! I'm also going to try to make a larger peyote tube that will be the 'holder' of the string. Let's hope my 'bright' ideas come to pass!

I'm also quilting on my 20" x 20" piece for Dijanne's KISS challenge. This is a real challenge for me because the only embellishment you can do is with threads and straight stitching! No beads! No painting! Yikes! But I have to admit it is making me think of other design opportunities and how you can keep a piece 'simple' but effective. At least I hope my piece will be 'simple and effective'! I'll post pics sometime this weekend of my progress and my design.

The robins are coming!! We must have hundreds, and I mean hundreds of robins here vacationing in Ocala, Fl. Several of our friends have commented for the past few weeks about the number of robins on the golf course. The other morning at breakfast we noticed a huge amount of robins on our neighbors rooftop. Well, by the time I got out the camera, ran outside and slammed the door by accident, there was only one robin remaining! Little guy just stayed on the roof..so here he is! Or maybe it's a she..either way, the robins are vacationing and getting ready to head up north! So to our friends and family back home, hang in there! Spring is on it's way. You'll most likely have to click on the picture to actually see the robin!

The rest of this week is going to be quite busy! Tomorrow is girls day out, Friday is girls day out and Sunday Carol and are are going to Rainbow Springs State Park for Cracker Days and plant sale. It's always fun to walk through the park but not sure the flowers will be out this year as they have in the past. There's quite a few artists, weavers, spinners, plants, ceramics and other items for sale. Should be a lot of fun the next few days so only hand work at night will get done!