Friends and Creativity

Lisa and I out to lunch

OK as you can see I am still catching up with posting some holiday stuff here...Took a little break but hope to stay on top and up to date (ha ha).

Getting items together for my project...Wood frame, glue, grout
sponge, assorted colored glass gems, big chunk of broken glass bowl 

During the holidays I had a good friend (Lisa) from Texas to come and stay with me...Friends are great and the one thing that I love about Lisa is that she totally inspires me to creativity. She is an artist and painter and is crazy creative. I love being around people who inspire me. While she visited me for the holidays we had a ton of fun and made some cool art projects.

Lisa working on her project...Didn't get a picture of the start before she
painted everything. This is midway through the process.

I love creating...painting, repurposing and remixing items, and I love the idea of having things in my home that I did with my own hands. That really excites me...Make me feel all warm and happy when I walk through my house.

One of the projects that we worked on was a glass mosaic using grout. This was my first time doing a mosaic and working with grout...It was no small project but I got it done. Lisa also made a piece and left it at my house! A Lisa original! Happy about that...

My paint supplies...Just finished painting my frame this beautiful
metallic green color

For my piece, I bought some glass gems from the store, but I also had a big chunk of glass from a beautiful bowl that was given to me several years ago as part of a gift after speaking at a conference. It was a really gorgeous piece but got broken in an accident. 

I have kept the broken pieces for many years because I knew that I would find something creative to do with it. I named my mosaic project "Redemption." It reminds me of how God is so great at taking the mistakes, broken pieces and fragments of our lives and recreating something amazing and beautiful in spite of it all. Don't ever think that He can't do something great with your mess...I have personal experience that He can!! I am so glad about that. 

Lisa has added more paint and glass tiles to her piece

I still have one more piece to finish with my project...I am going to make some sort of tag to hang with it on the wall that has the name "Redemption" on it and a short story of the meaning...Just like you find in some art museums...I think that  will be cool!

Adding glass gems and I also added a picture of
David and I in Mexico

How about you? What's your area of creativity? Hope your New Year is going great so far...

Love and Blessings
Sandra

P.S. By the way...I celebrate my birthday THIS Friday, January 25...Yea! Gonna have a fun birthday celebration with some of my dear friends...Very excited!! Very thankful to my amazing and wonderful God to still be here enjoying peace, life and love...Yes very grateful indeed! More pics below.

Lisa's finished art piece! Beautiful!

The cool thing is she finished this and gave it to me
for Christmas! I love it!

Tada!! And here is my piece..."Redemption" I really like it.
 I will get a better pic of it for the blog when I finish the
 name tag. Not to bad for first timer!

Here is another piece that we worked on. I already had this
piece. It was a plain brown and white so Lisa spiced it up
with some color and I added some gemstones on it.

Fun Fun Fun