Pressing the "DO" Button

Thank you good friend Linda Cain for passing on this lovely winter poem which so clearly depicts how we feel about this season !

 "I found this beautiful winter poem and thought it might be a comfort to you.   It was sent to me and it's very well written and I hope that you enjoy it too ."

" WINTER "

by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre



Crap It's Cold

The End

I love you Linda !!!!

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So, whadd'ya do when you're stuck inside ?

Well TUT, my note from the Universe says

"I have to admit that among inventions, the "Undo" button is right up there with the very greatest of all time, but it'll never compare to the "Do" button, from which worlds are born."

SO LETS DO IT !!!

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Glued down a strip of scrapbook paper to a wood board. Warmed the board with a heat gun and applied a layer of beeswax. Just brush the wax on over everything.

Fused that layer (heat gun or torch) and repeated the waxing/fusing several more times. Built up a few nice layers. I did 2 different panels

Then...ta da....I brushed on some colored pigment waxes and heated them which makes the wax move around forming way cool patterns.

Then I brushed on some Perfect Pearls and heated that too

Then I added a UTEE embellishment and a torn piece of paper from a book (ever notice how we Americans always pick foreign text and never know what it actually means !!??),  plus, some decorative border tapes that I'd had hanging round for a long time.

 

and I stamped right over the wax

 

and then...I MADE ART !!

Today would have been Elvis' 75th Birthday...thought I'd wax him too..to go with my Adam Lambert piece. Tomorrow I'll explain how I made the color photo into a nice Black & White.

 
 

LONG LIVE THE KING !!!

Comments

[Kathy Gledsdale]

Great poem and very well expressed I thought! Wish you were coming nearer to me as well, in the UK, have you ever thought of cloning yourself? Keep bloging it is freezing in the snowed in UK and we need you to keep us cheerful x

[lottie]

This is absolutely stunning. I so wish I could see you whenyou visit the UK - but sadly I too far away.

Just love you posts, and the newsletters - your personality just pours out across the ether

Have a wonderful 2010 - as I am sure you will. Everything you touch turns to magic in my eyes

x

[Linda Cain]

I loved this poem and immediately thought of my Midwest and East Coast friends slowed by the mounds of snow and bone-chilling temps.

I personally am ready for SPRING!!!!!

The Tut was terrific...I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE wax!!!!