My first dotee doll well almost.........

Dear friends,
This is my first dotee doll. My mum helped me out with design as i was sitting with her when I was making her and my mum said she needed a tuille dress! I love her heaps and she is on my bedroom door.
lots of love from susan in australia
PS A dotee doll was created by Dot of http://dotslifeandart.blogspot.com
I just found out mine isn't a dotee doll! It is supposed to be between 3 and 5 inches and mine is longer. Ah well I had fun.

Butterfly I drew as a child

Dear friends,
I was clearing out the garage and discovered my childhood art work my mum gave me and here is a butterfly I did in crayons. not sure how old I was. i am interested how I used brown as I don't use brown much in my art.

lots of love from susan in australia

Flow fabric journal

Dear friends,
I chose the word "flow" to concentrate on this year and did a fabric journal to celebrate the journey. Here is the front page.
lots of love from susan in australia

Marigold

Dear friends,
This is Marigold. She took me 3 years to complete as i kept putting it off. I am hoping to do some more flower children and hopefully not so long to complete.
lots of love from susan in australia

Altered book page

Dear friends,
This is my latest altered book page to do with planets and how small we are on planet earth and there is a whole universe around us.
lots of love from susan in australia

Mastery of life on the wing

Dear friends,
I can't believe there is now a photo of me in my bathers on the net!!! I am very self conscious about my weight and have had problems with body image most of my life. This is my first art piece done on canvas and the first page to a canvas art journal. It is all about mastery of life on the wing....dragon flies.....and balance in the chaos of mental illness and feeling good about myself as who i am. i am enough just the way I am today. I am also down the beach at one of my favourite magical spots near a friends boat shed where i can sit and drink coffee and watch the ocean and go for a swim.
lots of love from susan in australia

Felt beads

Dear friends,
These are some felt beads that I made and beaded. I sent some to one of my overseas friends for a swap.
lots of love from susan in australia ♥♥

Gratitude

Dear friends,
Here is some art I did to celebrate me doing a gratitude each day on my other blog and on other sites. I am also posting it as a challenge for a prompt on love as gratitude definitely comes from love.
lots of love from susan in australia ♥♥

Scavenger hunt

Dear friends, This was a scavenger hunt challenge where I had to use purple, a leaf, beads, a ribbon, a key, something starting with r which was road......all in all a lot of fun. Thanks to my friend Teri

lots of love from susan in australia

Cross stitch roses

Dear friends,
Here at last is the epic cross stitch I did of peace roses. it took years to do each evening at my mums.
lots of love from susan in australia

Quiet time

Dear friends, This is a super simple piece of art celebrating the quiet times in my rapid cycling moods with bipolar. Life is simple and gentle when I am quiet and sometimes I feel like a blue butterfly.
lots of love from susan in australia

Stacey

Dear friends,
My friend Stacey Apeitos died of breast cancer a week ago. Check her name online and read all about her. She has been a wonderful inspiration in my life and continues to be even in her death. Her enthusiasm and love of life and her limitless energy was awesome. Love you Stacey. This is the art I did to celebrate her including things from a wonderful online friend Carol.
lots of love from susan in australia

I am magic

Dear friends,
I am magic is part of an online course called 21 secrets I am doing. it was wonderful to celebrate what a magic person I am and that we all are. The instructor gave instructions as to what to do and away I went. I have 20 more workshops to do!!!
lots of love from susan in australia

TAW C1 ...safety

Dear friends,
i was going to study The artist's way by Julia Cameron with a friends art course but it didn't work out and they are now just doing general art. I have had other commitments and abandoned the idea but will do this in future. I will make a note in my diary.
Wait and see in my next post the latest huge, huge adventure I am on with my art
lots of love from susan in australia

Life...what do you want?

Dear friends,
This is a collage exploring the fact I have done so much work on my chakras and have really got in touch with my 7th chakra and the divine. I love all the colors. I loved doing this one
lots of love from susan in australia

Success is a mind game

Dear friends,
I have had works on my computer for 3 weeks but haven't put them on. I never do it during my quiet time I always have to wait until I am zippy. I will catch up now. Not sure how many to put on.
This one is a collage I did about life and time and how it passes for me and how much of it is a game with my mind and dealing with my rapid cycling bipolar. The yacht near the edge shows how I often feel I am on the edge and not coping but the child with the lady is me taking care of my inner child. The heart is for love
Lots of love from susan in australia

First textile beads

Dear friends,
These are some of the first textile beads I made and similar ones to those that I swapped with an online friend. I am adding the yellow and red ones to a bag strap for decoration and the blue one is the beginning of a new necklace.

lots of love from susan in australia

First textile necklace

Dear friends,
This is my first textile necklace. a special thank you to a friend for sending me the beautiful textile beads which we swapped. I had to celebrate with them and made my first necklace. i would love another one made of similar beads I sent my friend. I love, love, love it and I am going to wear it to meet an online friend for the first time. How exciting making friends online. I have met one online friend so far and hope to meet another one at the end of the week. Lucky, lucky, lucky me.

lots of love from susan in australia

Altered book page celebrating 6th chakra

Dear friends,
This altered book / altered text page is celebrating winter, august and my 6th chakra. I took a tip from a friend to gesso the page add some paint and spritz with water then wipe off with a paper towel. I also did some other pages for my artist journal.
I am really enjoying doing the altered book and do a double spread each time I celebrate a new zippy time with my mental illness.
lots of love from susan in australia

Exploring quiet time

Dear friends,
I am exploring how I can cope better with my quiet time which occasionally is quite dark. I can get quite reflective and moody. i am trying to find a better way to travel these times by finding more pleasant activities than sitting. I tend not to do my art work or creative things. I am going to encourage myself to do more gardening, cooking and other varied activities.
The collage has me sitting on a seat pondering about my decisions. I want to be friends with my quiet time not just my zippy times. I want to nurture my mind, body and soul.
lots of love from susan in australia