just a little something . . .

This was the product of a couple of those 'just have to do something, even if I don't know why' days.

One of the days involved painting scraps of wood, the other involved painstakingly cutting this cluster of leaves out of a wallpaper remnant.

They were not intending to come together, but then I had another one of those 'must glue' days and this was the result.

I'm really kind of tickled with it, and it has inspired my Artomatic contribution this year. I'm still working under the theory that I am going to have a job before mid-march, because AOM's expensive when you live this far from the district, but it is an awful lot of fun!

StephGdotOrg - ATC swap

My pieces of art from StephG arrived in the mail Thursday afternoon - and I couldn't be more tickled!

This is the first one I saw - and bonus of bonuses: those are real nails! On a field completely reminiscent of old-fashioned sticking plaster (the kind you wrap broken limbs with!) It brings to my ear all my childhood's warnings about wearing shoes and not playing with rusty things!

I do not know if my camera (or my inability to get high enough over my desk) has really captured how exquisite this piece is, in a gloriously subtle way. This piece definitely deserves a proper display, and I will be heading over to Rose's shop, as soon as my allowance racks up a little, and buying a frame for this one.