Prickly Pear Bloom

Mmmmm paper. And pebble shapes.

Only a week - or so - after saying that I was going to do this, I actually did it. That’s got to be a new record for me. I’m sure it has to do with the fact that this was the last day that I have access to the big momma scanner at school, and if I didn’t get a few of these finished to scan them I would probably lose all of my inspiration to do them completely. So I sat on the floor of my office for about 45 minutes last night letting my brain take a nap while cutting paper into pebble shapes and gluing them to big 13″x19″ sheets of heavy white paper. And it was oh so soothing, scissors in hand, cutting paper. I felt like a little kid for awhile, cutting and gluing. It was nice.

And, let me tell you, it’s really easy to end up with ALOT of big sheets of paper with pebble shapes arranged in various ways when you do this, just so you’re aware. I made 5. And I still have a pile of paper pebbles. And I see more in my future.

All of this is paper from my stash - yes, I have a stash of paper like many of you have a stash of fabric, although I have both, and I couldn’t tell you which is larger at the moment - brown and dark blue and shimmery light blue that you totally can’t tell is shimmery from these images, which is really too bad. And oh, hm, the scanner must have been dirty or the shimmer threw off its mojo because they look a little grimy, I had to clean that up just a little tiny bit in Photoshop just now. But they aren’t, grimy, in real life. I also threw some ink and paint on some paper for those streaky painty pebbles. I love the contrast of those with the flat, unpainted ones.

And oh, hey! Today was the last day of class for me for the semester. It’s summer! Sort of. At least, in terms of school, it’s out for summer. Hooray!

Oh, I have so much to tell you about this weekend. So much, that I’m just going to have to break it into chapters, I think. Later.