Fodder School 4

Fodder School 4 has started with a series of mini lessons...FS Challenges. I chose to start with Rebecca Chapman and her "Polaroids". I passed on the florals and used old photos that I didn't want to throw away...you know the kind of photos...awkward, off center, heads cut off, over/underexposed, doubles from the days of the bonus double photos offers. I love them now, as Polaroids!

More Block Printing on Fabric (Late to Publish...Sorry!)

I'm heading in a different direction than most of my fellow FS classmates. I'm envious of the beautiful and precise patterns that everyone is creating,  but I kind of like my loose scribble stamps too. 

Busy Few Days

 I never feel busy but I'm creating. I finished the little memorials for my mom and dad.

 They are beautiful, if I'm allowed to say that about my own work. 

I've also stumbled across a group in my own community making big papier mache puppets. So I reminded myself of my very limited comfort zone, and then drove over to the Friendship Park Community Center to help. I've been back three times and am now hoping making big papier mache heads goes on forever.

And, of course, there's September Fodder School. I have yet to watch any of the lessons from Yetunde Rodriguez, but I jumped into the stamp making this morning. I promised myself that I would watch the lessons before I went any further. 

 

Catching Up

I finished six little cat houses! For a project that initially caused my to roll my eyes a bit, it sure was fun. And it yielded some great little "cat houses". 

 

It's getting close to the day of my parents' cremains interment. Before their ashes are interred, I wanted to make some little memorials. 

August Fodder School Project

 Admittedly, I was not excited about making little houses with Alison Bomber and I was even less excited looking at my fellow students' finished projects...the berry motif made everyone's little houses look exactly the same. I managed  to make the fodder and I fiddled around drawing some dragonflies and stamping some bees but nothing really appealed to me.  Then, I decided to use the Instax photos I took of Sadie...the ones I've wasted so much film on....and then, I was excited.

Now, the very project I thought I didn't like has become one of my favorites. 

 

More TP Pouches

The heat and humidity have been oppressive today so I never left the house (and the AC). I should have watched the new Fodder School lessons. Instead, I lounged around reading, and then pausing to make more TP pouches. 

Voila!

I finished my July Fodder School project with a few days to spare. And I'm actually quite pleased with it...

My book...

 

Here is my final assembled piece, destined to be a work in progress in perpetuity.

And now, it's August. Instead of watching the August lessons and getting started on the August fodder, I'm fooling around making these little pouches out of toilet paper rolls. A friend of mine posted a photo of some on my Facebook page. Now, if I had saved more rolls, I would still be making them.

 

I also spent some time last week at the Friendship Park Community Center helping  Mary Gaynier and her crew with some big puppet heads.