Tuesday, January 14, 2014

No, I haven't done the laundry or cleaned the floor . . .

because I have been enjoying having time to myself at my desk!!  The house isn't really falling down around me, but it might pretty soon if I don't start getting a couple of chores done around here!!  

This week's prompt from Journal 52, is 'Somewhere, a Simple Place.'  Here is my dream, a simple treehouse in the trees.  Long before the show Treehouse Masters, I have wanted to live in or have a real grown-up treehouse!  I had a great one when I was a kid, with a window and a sandbox underneath. And I have even created a treehouse picture before because I love them so much. (but that project is long gone.) Someday, maybe I will find this simple place in the trees!


And I took a few pics along the way . . .

When I ran out of my favorite gel medium getting the background down . . .


Mixing the paint with glazing medium to make it more transparent . . .


Painting the background . . .


Wetting the cardboard so that I can pull off the top layer! (Thank you Becky G. for showing me this!)


Planning the pic and the size of the paper piecing . . .


The real pieces ...


The finished project . . .




The quote, "It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."  - Laura Ingalls Wilder

1 comment:

  1. My favorite, when we are old and gray and widowed...we can live in a tree house and call it "club 31"!

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