As you can tell, I’ve dropped out of the 365 Crafting project.  Life intervened.  I’m still working in my studio though. 

Saturday and Sunday last week I spent a lot of time in my studio.  One thing I worked on was painting over sheet music to be recycled in a interactive peace journal for a class group project.  You can still see the music underneath and there are places that I left unpainted that I thought had words that might make good prompts.  The other pages are from a beautiful old children’s book about birds.  The pages in the journal are all recycled from books and paper I found on the free shelf at Edward McKay’s.  Of course, now I’m worried about our choices - is this old paper going to hold up?  I guess that the way to look at it is that it just needs to at least hold up through the end of this class!

Today I’m going to paint a few more and join pages into pairs by gluing strips of construction paper down the middle where they will be folded.  I made a couple of pockets from a old CD package and I’m going to make tags from card stock that we’ll attach raffia ribbons to.  The tags will have prompts on them and be put in the pockets.

Anybody that has a favorite quote or idea for a prompt about peace is invited to leave it in the comments!

The four of us are all working on different aspects of the book, so others are doing the cover and binding it and putting together a creativity kit for people to add their own thoughts in many ways.

I also finished the first “fabulously ugly” scarf and I think that it will be quite pretty, although I’m afraid that it might be too thick and stiff.  The yarn packed down a lot more than I thought it would even though I was not beating it, just pushing it into place.  I’ll see when I take it off and wash it.  It took a long time, but that was fine, because I needed the comfort of the steady rhythm this week and last.  I’ll begin the second one today, and weave it more loosely from the beginning.