It felt like it would never come, this vacation.
But it did, and we spent a gloriously refreshing couple weeks at the cabin.
Making stuff
and chilling.
Ted got the hang of it pretty quickly.
Constantly inspired by everything surrounding me there
I started playing with beads.
Inspired by the golden glow of the sunsets
or maybe it was just my beads...
...even my drawings coordinated with it all.
With so few distractions
"Hey guess what, let's go to the beach."
I started making earrings.
and more earrings.
Like, a ridiculous amount of earrings (more on these soon). I couldn't stop. It happened sort of on accident, I hadn't set out to make that many. Really, I think it was the lack of distractions.
"Hey, I have an idea. Let's go to the beach."
Another thing that happened totally on accident: my finished necklaces caught my eye one afternoon
and a thought popped into my head
about all the super neato suncatchers and mobiles I keep seeing on Pinterest.
The challenge here was making it fit in the long window without distracting from the beach view. I built it in several shorter sections and fastened them together, some while they were laid out flat and others after hanging it up. For a mobile it's pretty heavy, and about as tall as me.
Glass, shells, rocks, even a small float are mixed together with the glass beads, jewelry wire, and some random rusty hardware from my Granddad's basement that I'd thrown in a bag to take with me, not knowing what I'd make with it.
It was good wire-wrapping practice. Some are swirly and nice, others not so much.
But it's the beach. The beach is supposed to be imperfect.
I made other stuff too and can't wait to share in more posts, but for now I'm just starting to settle back into home and studio, back to reality, where it is starting to feel like . . . fall.
Hope you are enjoying September so far yourself.
No distractions, just your muses! And Molly. Did you go to the beach with her? My fall will be perfect now because I had a good Artstuff Kickoff! Love what you do! Love you!
Posted by: Peggy | September 19, 2013 at 03:53 PM