Looking Back While Looking Ahead-Part 2

More of my favorite part pieces from 2013 on this crazy cold morning-we're down into the double digit negatives.
BRRRRR. Welcome to real winter.
This is part deux-if you missed part 1 and really want to see it here's the link.
http://fat-emma.blogspot.com/2014/01/looking-back-while-looking-ahead-part-1.html

The second half.

Patterns
as I took MaryAnn Moss's SEWN class.
Got me hooked on patterns.

I love looking at everyone else's look back. Its so much fun to see where people have been in a year, what they like the best and where they trended.
Plus its  a great way to wrap up the old and prepare for the new

So hope you enjoyed this little view. This is NOT all the art on my blog-ha-ha-

but last year was certainly a very creative year for me.
I like putting it together- see only the things I really like.

I hope 2014 is as creative-if not more so.

I look forward to spending a lot of hours back in my studio playing, playing and playing.

Hope you do too-and if you are an arty type that is I hope you get lots of play, fun and creative muse inspiration.

See you back here again soon-

Looking Back While Looking Ahead-Part 1

OK, I planned on starting my new year off with a BANG but instead we have a big snowstorm blowing in on us.

Yeah, it is a bang, but not quite my definition of that word.

I had thoughts of going to New York City for a couple of days but who wants to be there in the snow and super cold. Why pay the big prices for a hotel and food and transportation for that? Cities are colder than here in the woods when that wind whips down through those tall buildings.

Then Katie and I were planning on going on a shopping road trip down to our closest IKEA- 2 1/2 hours away. 

But that's too far to drive with a big snow coming.

You just never know when those storms show up early or if the traffic through Boston backs up because people are trying to beat or stuck in the weather. Seen that once or twice and don't need to see that again. A 2 1/2 hour drive can become a lot longer-like 5 hours if weather hits.

So my bang is going to be more of a day home-

but it should be a great day to play in the playroom.

Oh yeah!!!!!

So since I haven't done a lot of art play lately, I don't have much to show you there-

thought I'd do one of those go back through the year and show you my favorite arty pieces for 2013.

Just what you want to see!

Ha-Ha.

OK, and that's only the first six months.
No rhyme or reason, and since I was feeling kind of down about my latest creative activity-and feeling like all I am is a slobby arter, this has lifted my spirits.
Sometimes I think I just expect to like everything I make, which of course is NOT going to happen.

I'll be back Saturday with the rest of the year.

Thanks for bearing with me and actually going through all these little art projects of various sorts.
Hope everyone had a great New Year celebration
can you believe its day 2 of 2014 already?