Finally, I have broken through and came out smiling as I was inspired from a Somerset Studio piece on
waxed tissue paper article by Rachael Emilie Jackson.

I took two seperate  pieces of torn tissue paper and put a coating of beeswax on each of  them and peeled them from the teflon non stick sheet. With the wax side up I layered items I wanted in the collage and put the second sheet on top, wax side down (wax to wax) and then ironed them together sandwiching the items in the middle.  I put ribbon or string in to hang them   with as they are semi-transparent and are made to hang in a window or in front of light. 

In the first one I put a picture I tore the edges from.  It is definately not transparent but shows up just fine.
In the second one I put mostly  transparent or semi-transparent items.  The butterfly was stamped on Vellum, the lace at the bottom was sheer, the ribbon was sheer and the only solid pieces were the music and vine.  I also used a very pale aqual blue tissue paper.  I am now imagining all these different colors to use in the tissue paper, all the different items to imbed in them and am hopefully on a roll and back to creating again.

It's been a long dry spell but I think I am through the wall and on my way again. 

Hope you are all looking forward to the cold creative fall days ahead, and Thanks for visiting my blog again.

I finally finished this triangular shawl out of an acrylic yarn that looked like Mohair but was so soft and not itchy.  It turns out I was very dissappointed in the stiches as they appear very irregular and normally my knitting is just the opposite.  Very smooth.  I don't know if it was mistakes I was not aware of in working with it or if it was the fact that it was a commonly known brand yarn but found in the local dollar store.  I just loved the feel and color of periwinkle and thought I could make this as a Christmas gift for my wonderful neighbor who makes my coffee every morning.  It turns out it is not of a good enough quality in the stiches to be given as a gift so I will move on to another project.

I don't know if things like this happen to others who knit from time to time, but it is very  discouraging when so much time is spent on a piece.  I usually go to the more expensive yarn shops and have seen this yarn there.  I'm glad I did not pay the premium price as I would have gotten the same result had I bought it there.

But it is certainly pretty enough for me to wear when I catch a chill while watching tv.

Hope all your projects whether they be knitting or paper arts or whatever, turn out just the way you hope.