Bubbles, concrete, babies...

Bubbles!

A few weekends ago, I went to a mosaic weekend retreat, 8 of us with two teachers for three days. I made this lovely picture of bubbles with the help of Wilma and Ilse! The iridescence of the glass does not come through on this photo... I'll have to get DH to re photo for me. I learned a lot and I'm very pleased with the outcome.

I'm finding the 3-4 day workshop format (regardless of media) with a finished object at the end a little tiring; I find I don't have time to look at and reflect on what I'm doing and I think that's not good for my art. I do like the feedback I get from the artist instructors and the artist participants. I'm trying to figure out how go forward.

I did sign up for a couple more of Wilma's classes; two days ago I learned how to make these concrete substrates suitable for mosaic. Nope, the photo is in color, not black and white; it's just concrete forms on a white surface. I'll be making more of these! Next weekend, I'll mosaic one of them (also in class); I think I'll do the top right.

Substrates.
Lower right most is the size of a toilet paper tube.

Meanwhile, Mollie Stone's (a local grocery chain) brought in a truck load of Hatch Green Chile and a roaster... I bought 20 lbs of roasted chiles, which is somewhat less than that roasted. DH helped me strip off the skins and take off the stems and seeds. OMG the kitchen smelled good! I immediately bought a big hunk of pork and made some green chile stew. I used this recipe to make some corn sticks to eat with them.

And I've been making baby things. I made a baby sweater for one of DH's coworker; I powered through this thing to get it done in time for a dinner later this week. I just have to sew on buttons and sew in all the ends and I'm done.  This has to be my favorite baby sweater in the world to knit! It's self striping sock yarn, so it's easy to make. I'm also pulling the warp for 2 baby blankets, one for the new grandniece, the other for a friend, hoping to get it on the loom soon!

Devan

I'm also starting to think of what I want to do in Q4, seeing as I only have a week left in Q3...  More on that later.