Like I Need Another Hobby

Decided to attempt needle tatting, without a tatting needle (used a yarn needle) or appropriately sized thread (used yarn). Followed directions on an Instructable written by a blogger I follow (TotusMel of Needle Tatting and Other Nonsense and TotusMel's Wunderkammer - she featured one of Volk's art gears here); didn't watch the accompanying video.

Observation the First: Tatting needles are designed for the function of tatting. Yarn needles are not. The eye end is fat and one can hurt their fingers attempting to draw the needle through the tatting.

Observation the Second: Yarn is not an ideal material for tatting. It wants to unspin itself.

Observation the Third: I should have also watched the instructional video, as there is definitely some twisting and warping in my attempt, which I'd bet wouldn't be there if I had. Or if I knew more about tatting rings and chains. Which now I do.

Cell phone photos for your enjoyment (cell phone is not good at close up details):

(for size comparison)

Just felt like sharing.

(As a side note... if any of you guys with Etsy shops have items posted that fall into the Dark/Steamy category or close enough, links can be suggested to TotusMel for feature on the Wunderkammer... I'm more than willing to make suggestions on the off chance that a feature will send some views/business your way.)

Transformation by G2.0

12/23 This weeks topic is "Transformation"

That is the theme. Interpret it as you will.

Winnar!

Trish has it for this week!!

CellFown

I don't want to win, because I don't want to pick a topic.
I do, however, take pictures with my cell phone near constantly attempting to capture what I see, which is difficult with a proper camera and near impossible with a cell camera, but occasionally I get something really neat in the end. Here are some of the ones I like.

Iced Tree

Winter Sky

Kentucky

Stairs at Edison Lab

Exterior Edison Lab

LunaMika

Shawnee on the Delaware

Leaf Light

Lava

Lamps

View from a kitchen

Patriotic Clouds

The Edge

Cell Pics

This is a Pic Taken while we got our family x-mas tree and Mom was looking the other way.












This is a Continuation in the Award Eligible comic character Banana Futz!












And this final entry I call "The Changing of the Infectious Waste Dumpsters"

My phone

Won't email photos it seems so to Facebook then here....

New topic: Cheap Photography.

Ok I noticed things have been slowing down, and with the holidays I'm not really surprised, but I'm going to try and get it going again.

I'm throwing out a topic. Deadline next Sunday and I'm going to try something a little different.

I want you to get the most artistic picture you can with a cell phone camera. I've been playing with it recently and its actually kinda fun.

Give it a try and I hope everyone is having a stress free holiday.

Some of the work I've taken...

from my phone.

I'm hoping to paint some of them some day.

New Work

This is what I've been doing.