Ideas

Yes, yes, I know...for months and months I have been thinking of different ideas that allow me to be creative and hopefully allow me to earn a little money.  Lots of ideas.  (And thank you for your patience when you saw my email address and "what do you think?" in your inbox!  Some worked, some not so much!  Some seem crazy but if it involves doing something that I love I will explore it.

Since I was a child I have loved making collages out of magazine cuttings, and I still do!  One day while doing this with the boys I got the phrase "use your words" in my head - what I normally tell the boys when they start crying or whining in anger or frustration!  I had the idea to make a really big collage out of words cut out of magazines that were meaningful to me.  It would be fun and it could cover a very big blank space on my kitchen wall that needed some art.  I did make it and loved doing it.  I had it scanned and then printed onto a large canvas and this is the result...

Yes, I know some of the words went skew!!  I am going to experiment with making some using black and white words, some small canvases and maybe using the words to make a silhouette or shape.

Also been thinking about using shweshwe fabric (and these more modern ones) to make things out of, like a wrap around skirt perhaps.  And then today I saw this in Ideas magazine:

See the shweshwe in the skirt?  Hmmm...

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