Creative Play

My soulful expression needs to put all the words aside and bathe in color and texture.  So I need to engage in activities that are colorful, like painting (I painted all my walls this summer) and collage and knitting (I knit crazy handbags out of scraps of colorful fabric).  These activities put me in touch with a different part of my brain that exists somewhere beyond the ordinary.  During the years of raising my children, except for when they were young and played a lot, I lost this soulful connection to myself and felt angry and irritated a lot of the time.  I really thought I was, a joyless person with little energy for creative pursuits.  Anyone who knows the essence of me, gapes in surprise when I tell them that I lost years of myself to the daily grind of work and more work.


So today, my Sacred Space is infused with creative pursuit. 



It’s fun to play with fabric.  A great way to nurture. 
Here are some examples of my first attempt at fabric collage using embroidary and beads, which I know nothing about.



I did this first.  It is fabric paint on fabric and collaged onto board.  then I added scribbles with markers.

Then I did another one:

I then wanted to figure out how to sew my images onto fabric, using embroidary techniques and beading like Susan Sorrell. 
So i started to cut shapes out of fabric and glue onto other fabric, like this:

I did a test collage:

and then another one with beads (my first attempt to bead something):

I had fun doing a bunch of collages on small squares:

And then the final big collage.