A Creative Week.

Once a month the Senior Centre holds a painting drop-in. I haven't picked up a paint brush since I got back from Spain so decided I needed this to get me kick started again.

It was lovely to immerse myself in watercolour again (not literally) and just have 2 hours devoted to it. There was just one other person there but I gather there are usually 3 or 4.

 

I have continued working on it since and hope to have it finished to take back to next months drop-in.

Heather and Don came down for a couple of days and spent one day down at Long Point, birding. Cedar Waxwing, photo by Don.

Grey Catbird. Photo by Don. They had their best sightings in the old Provincial Park.

Hooded Warbler. Photo by Don.

We were also treated to some magnificent skies (photo by Don), changing lake colours

and a rainbow. Also a large doe walked through the back yards, but no picture.

Friday I had signed up for a fused glass workshop at the Senior Centre. These were the examples.

There were dishes of coloured glass

on our tables and

a bin of glass shards to pick through (with gloves on).

We were given a piece of glass to use as the base and glue to stick our glass patterns on.

Unfortunately I wasn't in a very creative mood and just went through the motions. The instructor will now put them into her kiln, so they will fuse, and we will pick them up next week.

I have continued to work on the Paint Brushes rug hooking.

Ditch Lily after the rain. That might be an interesting painting challenge.

Rick has been working on Spellbound and she is ready for her launch next week. The fenders he uses on the dock are looking pretty disgusting, even though he scrubbed them last year. So we decided to see if I could make covers for them.

We found a polyester mesh at Lens Mills along with outdoor upholstery thread. Although not much of a seamstress I covered the 2 of them using my $80 Kenmore sewing machine. After taking this picture we replaced the white rope to tie them, with black. 

So, yes, a creative week: painting, photography, glass fusing and sewing.