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Showing posts with label muse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muse. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

lazy musings


Life has been a bit slow and lazy lately. That hasn’t kept me from tatting or thinking about tatting. Everything has ended up in my sketch book. Here’s an example:

Sinfonia:  Two measure motif that gets tossed back and forth….use chains on either side of rings; maltese; rings on either side of a center section of ?????

     6 key centers in 30 measures alternating Major, Dominant, Relative, on to next key center…..develope motif representing scale degree and mode; use color for mode;

     Research whether motif in sinfonia was used in larger work

     Play with improv on motif and research results

That’s a bit hard to put on paper or blog, but some of you may get the idea. The rest can go ahead and have a good belly laugh at the way my brain works……my friend did the other day. I’ll admit to laughing at myself quite a bit, so I didn’t mind at all.

I hope today that everyone can find something, no matter how small, to enjoy and smile about…maybe even laugh.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

in search of.......


I have a small bead/quilt store in my town where I love to browse away the hours. The staff are friendly, knowledgeable, and aren’t afraid to admit they aren’t experts. I’ve taken design doodlings in and spent literally hours setting different combinations of beads/findings/thread colors out in hopes the muse will strike. I’m pleased to say that I’ve had quite a good number of “ah hah’s” happen there. Tuesday afternoon was another wonderful session of creative stimulation. Nothing is finished, but I will say that I have some wonderful bead caps to play with. I can't wait to share. But, kind readers, I'll be sharing with the shop first, then with you!