How Easily I Get Distracted

Sometimes I just can't help myself.  I get so easily distracted and move on to something else from one day to the next.  I have been creating quite a bit actually.  I remembered my brother asked me to make him a Chicago flag (just like the one I made my hubby for Father's Day) so I started on that.  Then I remembered that I had a wonderful idea for the cover of my sketch book and I started to decoupage tissue paper to the cover of that.

Then I saw, once again, the 2 painting off in the corner of my studio that had been sitting there for who knows how long.  So of course I started to work on those as well.  Here are just a couple of the paintings I've been working on this past week.

First, is this beach scene which has gone through many changes and I'm sure will be going through some more as I'm still not completely happy with the water.

Next, is this smaller beach scene painted on a 12 x 12 canvas which was done as the first painting from Jacqueline Penney's Painting Charming Seaside Scenes in Acrylics.  It just needs a few finishing touches and I'm gonna call this one complete.

 

 

 

Finally, here is a painting that I call "Dreams of Provence" which I realized yesterday has been sitting for 5 years waiting to be finished.  I really love how it finally turned out!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

~Connie

 



The Little French Jacket Sew-Along

I'm still working on my couture dress, but it has been slow as family birthdays (September's a busy one in this family) and just everyday happenings with the kids going back to school have been keeping me otherwise engaged. But, if you know me I get bored too easily and distracted frequently.  This time it's for a really great reason though!  I was surfing some sewing blogs recently and came across this fun Sew-along Challenge. I'm hoping to have time next week so I can work up a muslin for my chosen pattern:

I'm looking at and figuring on doing view B which is on the lower right of the pattern envelope.  I have only 2 yards of the fabric I want to use so I'm hoping I can make it work.  Gosh, I think I just sounded like Tim Gunn?!  Oh My?!  Anyway, I've had this fabric for quite some time and was never really sure what I wanted to do with it, but I think this would be the perfect project for it.

 

It's a very pretty boucle that has a black background with accents of purple, magenta, dark blue, light blue and yellow threads that make up the pattern.  I think I can almost make out a houndstooth shape with the black, but it's really hard to tell.  I figure it has tons of possibilities for pairing with any number of skirts, or trousers or even jeans!  I will have to look for a lining fabric as well which means I'll have to go to the fabric store . . .  which means, I might get distracted again . . . which means I might end up wanting to start another project??!!!  Yikes, I think I better get focused on what I've got going so far.

 

Why not check out the posts about the Little French Jacket Sew-Along at A Challenging Sew and here at Thewallinna and see if you might be interested in sewing along too!

Hope to be back again soon with updates on these 2 exciting projects I got going on.  SEW . . . until  then . . .

~Connie

P.S.  I hunted down my copy of Threads, issue 121 from October/November 2005.  It has a great article by Susan Khalje on the "Inside Secrets of a Chanel Jacket" which I'm gonna read over again.  There's tons of great info in the article for this project if you can get your hands on a copy of this issue for yourself!