Janie and PeepsArt

50th post! So something special...

Janie, in addition to being a friend, is my JinShinJytsu practitioner and the one who led me on my own journey into this fascinating energy work. When I participated in her journaling sessions, she always encouraged doodling. AAAAArrrrgggghhh I thought AND said. I don't doodle!! And even today, I really don't. I write but I don't doodle.

Janie finally told me the story of her frustration in a class in seminary (yes seminary!) and how she just kept doodling. This was a new habit for her also, and in the years to come, it became a regular habit. From these doodles, the cards were born and a great deal of the revenue from the cards goes into local charities when there is a connection that clicks.

Above is one of my favorites but you can see many of her works at her website. Note that it is PeepsArt not Peep Art. There is a world of content difference!

Just the other day I was showing Janie some of the wonderful things made by crafters and sold on line, often in Etsy. She said she was soooo happy to see women continuing to engage in this kind of thing - the creative spark still flourishes despite the constraints of work and family for younger women. Janie calls herself Old Bird by the Bay, but age is relative. ;-) Enjoy her stuff!

Pinhole not Pinprick

Pinhole, pinhole... is what I had been talking about earlier. The artist is Heather Smith Jones and her flickr pics are just amazing. What patience she has!! And she's Australian too!! (Wrong! HSJ tells me she is not - I believe she is from Kansas US. Ty KSJ. ) I see all this As A SIGN that I am meant to go to Australia. But what a loooong long time on the airplane. (n.b. even if HSJ is not Australian, I think a future trip is plannable. )

While Heather says she uses a sewing machine needle, it seems that there is a tool in one of her pics. In quickly googling, I didn't find too much that did not go back to referencing Heather. One other blog CallyCreates has pictures taken from Heather's site and other work she and others have done. I am going to have to read up a bit and see what they have done and how they have done it.

I DO have a new thimble bought in Lisbon that I spied with just this project in mind. Two other women were looking at the thimbles as I came back to buy the one I'd pondered (but didn't buy on first look), and neither one knew what the little items were or what they were used for. I explained and they still didn't quite get it and English was the language we all shared so it wasn't that. I guess if you've never seen a thimble in use or sewn, it makes no sense.

Anyhow, with a price at just under 1.5 Euros I snatched the one I wanted while they looked at these tiny and affordable souvenirs. As my little treasure is some kind of pottery, I do hope it will work. A pic later when I can figure out how to put it on my finger and snap or get dh to do the imaging for me.

On my desk...March 05

Well, my desks are in a state of flux after the serious look at those poor inspiration boards. I know I'm not listed on Three Buttons blog as playing the "This is..." meme but I am. (3Buttons..I don't see an email to ask you to include me.) These pictures go with the meme from Kirsty at Kootoyoo.



I must have been thinking of how I could move this room around, and got up out of bed just before midnight to do some playing around with some cards. First thing in the morning, I took the picture... pen caps did get put back on after use. ;-) I am still planning on making a card using the pinprick method, but I just have to test it out...and find the print of the blog on which I saw the concept. I think I know where it is. I hope I know because I have no idea what the real word for that technique is. I'm also wondering what kind of needle will go thru this faux watercolor paper.



Ok people...I do need to know what this technique is called. I don't (grrrr) have the paper I thought I did. I saw the idea on flickr - a woman making wallpaper withe pinkrpicks of traced greenery. Does that ring any bells???? I'm running out of vocabulary to google. TIA!