Busy Busy Busy!!

Hi there,
Well I know I haven't been on here for quite a few days now but it's all for a good reason! I have been very busy creating away in my little craft corner of our spare room!
I have been making plenty of Canvases to keep me busy, I have also made a peg bag and painted a couple of (rather large) pebbles, they're not rocks!....They're not rocks!?!
The  rock's, cough cough........pebbles, didn't quite turn out the way I really visualised but they'll do for me! I think I got the size of the flowers all wrong but who care's right? It's original and different and that's what makes it more 'interesting' hey!

The canvases on the other hand, turned out quite well considering the amount of time I spent on them. Usually if I spend hours upon hours on something I lose concentration, resulting in my lack of enthusiasm and ability, (pretty much what happened with the pebbles) but I took plenty of breaks and started on something new while I had time away from the previous unfinished piece. Only the problem there though, is that I run out of surface space to work on and I'm surrounded by buttons and wet paint brushes to clean up before I make more mess for myself as I move on.....If you saw the amount of buttons I posses and brushes I go through, you'd understand!!

Now don't even get me started on the peg bag I made yesterday! It took me about four hours to make on and off. Two attempts and cutting out the pattern, stitching and restitching and stitching and restitching, and then I got into a bit of a dilemma over which buttons to use to add a bit of charm to it! An hour it took me to decide, an hour!! What's wrong with me, I'm such a perfectionist. That or I'm just too indecisive!! I'll go with a perfectionist! Although I must say, it looks good and my wife is very happy she has a new peg bag........ and the pegs don't have to live in the weighing scales dish any more!

So, that's pretty much the past couple of weeks for me, and I hope you like what I have created..... I do!

Until next time, have a pretty few days xxx

Starting over!

I'll start by introducing myself.... My name is Jessica Green, I am 30 and a half years old! I live with my beautiful wife to be, our two gorgeous, very noisy dogs and our little fish..... he loves to ride the rapids! ( the filter ripples to you and me!!)
I'm on here as I was given some great advice recently from my art tutor on giving myself a purpose, a purpose to create new and unique crafts, then posting them on a blog and writing down little ideas and thoughts when I feel necessary.
You see, 3 years ago I was signed off work with depression and I have had numerous amounts of therapy and counselling and I have found that even though my post traumatic stress therapy went really well and gave me a new view on the situation I am in, that by creating unique pieces such as canvases, paintings, bunting etc really drifts my mind away from the world I really live in. The feeling that I'm a small child hiding away behind a pair of legs every time I leave the house or meet new people. When I'm creating, (which I never knew I had the ability of doing until around 6 months after I was signed off) all those fears leave me alone . The sad thing is though, is that I lost all my UMPHH in making more pieces about 18 months ago and I feel that the only way to build my confidence and inspirations once again is to get creating! And so, as my tutor suggested, by writing a blog and posting my creations on here, it might just give me a purpose to get up, get myself sat at my table and make something new. I don't have to feel pressured into doing it, I don't have to do it everyday, I can just do it when I please, but knowing that this blog is here to come to and record my progress, thoughts and photo's, really does give me the little nudge of purpose I need.
So, as a small reminder to myself and a look into what I can create to you, here are a few pieces I have made in the past.
I hope you enjoy! xxx