I brought up the straps a bit and cut off about 3 inch from the bottom, then under the arms I had to take it in some.
This one was 3.99 and I added the gold rick rack around the west and cut the shoulder straps and criss- crossed them in the back so that it would stay on instead of slipping off my granddaughters shoulders. She was running around the house the other day wearing it and I had a chip bag clip helping to hold it up. She was having a good time in it. Almost to the floor length.
This dress was 5.99 and I didn't cut anything off the bottom but did add straps and the bow with the ribbon streamers hanging down. It will be big in the chest area but it's a dress up dress.
I've wanted to do this for a while and she's be 3 in 5 months so though I would get a start on it. Plus with Halloween that past she was really into the costume theme of Maribel from Encanto's.
We can see she's enjoying the dress up theme. I was able to find a nice cardboard flip cover box to put the dress in for her and bought a pair of black sparkly low level shoes for her. I little big but that's great to grow into. Didn't make any promise that they would be for Christmas, just a thing to have at Baba's house to play with. They will be moving in May so they are watching how much comes into the house now as more they have to pack away in a few months.
Now I have to watch out when I go to Goodwill and buying dresses for her. Might have to look for something for the boys to dress up in. I know Jake and Kyle would try the dresses on too. All in fun and creative play. Imagination is a good thing to explore young and old.
I found more, as of the 8 x 8's on wood panels, There I set them on the bed so I could start uploading to my website again. I had more a few years ago and as you know life is a flow of expanding and contracting. What I've uploaded selection for reduction sale view in
Art Market . I've marked them down more then half off. As I work though the project of moving things around in the rooms, as I've used them for dumping sites the last few years, I would like to clear clutter and walk into the rooms and feel better about the spaces. Now saying that this is scary but my reality and why I'm moving in the direction of not creating work but creating a better environment.
This was my son's room and now it's the artwork storage room along with the regalia that goes with exhibiting in art fairs, tents, walls, bins for art, hanging and tie downs etc. It's still in transition though most of the stuff is in the room.
More light here, I need to get the baby stroller out of here along with my weight bench. Not sure where I'll be working out and doing yoga, might be back in my main bedroom. I purchased these tall storage tote just recently to store the Tack Down Tuesday's I've framed up over the years. I best get that family picture off the walk though behind the totes or I will loose that. My plant is growing so big and most of the growing happens outside by the gazebo area during the warm months. But does well in this south light here.
This is the BEDroom as of for real, the day bed, the full size bed and the pack and play crib/bed things we use for the younger ones. I moved things to this room because all the grandchildren now need supper dark places to sleep in and this has one set of window in the dormer and the drapes are room darkening. I really do need to paint the walls but not doing that this time.
Still have some tweaking to do but will break a bit today to get my new/use desk for the studio space from my daughter as she doesn't use it any more and is moving into a smaller apartment that she can afford by her self. Tough out there for our adult kids. But it was tough for us too. Not wishing it on them but we each have our own character building life experience to grow from moments, right?
So take a magazine page or paint a drawing paper or watercolor with acrylic or watercolor paints. And cut into shapes and pieces.
As you can see I have a nice selection to work from and I have a 6 x 6 piece of watercolor paper in the center to use as my substrate. Now I'm not going to glue them down with a glue stick or any other kind of glue.
I would like to offer you a play ground area to practice making choices and see what comes from it. I would suggest at least three time and then put it away for the day. It can be useful as a warm up before you go into creating a collage too.
As you can see from this one photo and the one before the shapes close to the same size. Not always good.
Add some excitement to your little arrangement by cutting smaller pieces as you can see how it worked out for this one compared to the other ones. This exercise also helps you listen to what you like and don't like just by arrange these cut shapes. Teaches you to listen to your inner artist and creative spirit.
After playing with this exercise I went into today's Tack Down Tuesday, yes it is Monday afternoon but this is when I create it for a Tuesday Morning Launch of the email newsletter.
I stumble upon a sketchbook that had these free flow starts. The paper is just sketchbook not watercolor but I used the acrylic paints, three colors and the plastic wrap again on these too.
I like to see in them for were possible lines would be and draw them in. It think these lines were made with caran d'ache crayons. Loose lines with the plastic wrap lines.
And this one I used the ruler and draw some straight lines. After making my mark with them I sprayed the workable fixatif so it doesn't smear.
Hiding some of the lines with acrylic paint again, bring the white from the paper back on top with bit of a dark buff color. At this point it would have to dry and then a layer of gloss would be applied for the fusion with an iron technique. Otherwise you can use the wet glue and collage that way too.
Kind of fun to see these in the old sketchbook.
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