Princess Bubbles Creates

 I have started a new journal to house my mandalas.  This journal is larger than the last one I used.  It will be an interesting playground!  

 I finished my pillow cover!  I love it!  Even though a bit of orange is popping through, I won't try to cover it up.  I actually don't mind the bit of orange.  The whole thing being orange was too much for me.  I can handle tiny bits.   This reminds me of Milliefori glass.  It was fun to use up small bit of fabric and I have a few flowers/circles leftover.  I hate wasting so I am contemplating how I should use them up.  I am leaning towards doing another scroll.  Any other ideas? I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/

LeeAnna  and the ladies are discussing   do you like calendars either desk or wall real calendars? I love calendars!  Hubby gets me a weekly planner every year for Christmas.  I know I could keep track on my phone, but I don't.  I also love pretty wall calendars and I always save them to use in collage.  I  enjoy the page-a-day calendars as they are good for collage as well.  I am not a minimalist! I like snow, sometimes.  This year we have had so much!  This horrible photo of my deck shows how much we have right now.  A couple of weeks ago we had the same amount.  We had a thaw and it all melted.  So this is the second time this year we have had this much snow!  Sorry about the photo, I didn't want to go outside to take it! I like the beauty of snow.  It is covering my world with a thick, fluffy blanket.  Nature is telling us it is time to rest.  Stay cosy!

 These are some of the tassels that I have been creating.  They are a lot of fun to make!  I am just noticing that the ball on the top of the blue tassel in the middle is a bit big.  I wonder why I didn't notice that when I was making it!

 This is the last mandala in my watercolour journal.  I originally thought I would only use watercolours for each mandala.  That, of course, changed as I was working on this over the years.  Yes, I started this journal a few years ago!  How time flies!  How distractions occur!   It is all good, and I will put this journal on the finished shelf.  Time to dig out another journal!  I have a lovely collection of journals just waiting to be used.   I have a spreadsheet of the mandalas that I have created.  Well, just the mandalas that are in strictly mandala journals and mandala-altered books.  At this point, there are 624.  That isn't counting the 400 I created for an installation.  Nor is it counting the mandalas in just regular journals.  It is a lot of mandalas!

 It was a PD day on Friday, so I had the pleasure of hosting my granddaughter for the day.  We had a lovely time together as we always do.  She wanted to learn how to stitch a fish.  She really wants to do a wolf but I thought we should start with something simpler.  She was picked up earlier than expected so I didn't manage to get a photo of her work.   This is my fish.  There is still more stitching to do.  I am thinking I will add some layered, fluffy goodness to the tail. I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/