Soul Food Loving

I am so loving Soul Food, 

I eagerly wait each new lesson.

This lesson has me doing some paper mache.

I actually used my table protector paper for my paper mache so it is not painted at all, I did add a couple of squirts of dylusions campo teal into my paper mache paste mix to bring it all together and I love the way it all looks in this stage before I added the other components. 

This is lesson 10 from Sarah Hand

I turned mine into a shrine to the ocean,

it was lovely to gather up some of my treasures and bring them all together in a home. 

The lesson was on shadow boxes and paper mache and this is my finished piece. I had lots of fun and this piece was nice to work on in stages as it had to dry and I had to collect all my bits and pieces. 

Deep Roots

I live near a rain forest,
and in the rain forest live 2 magnificent old fig trees.

They are so big and so beautiful,
one of them has tunnels through its roots,
its great big buttress roots,
that my youngest son loves to play in.


These amazing buttress roots form walls of a fort,
dams to hold back the invisible tide of imagination,
and offer a wonderful natural balancing beam.

They also go down deep,
deep into the earth,
on the banks of the mighty mighty river.

They have held on through so many years,
so many floods,
over hundreds of years
they could tell you a story if you came and listened.

I love my river and the fig trees
and they inspired me to create one of my very own.


This Fig tree is a special tree,
it has messages in its leaves,
and wide spreading branches to bear special fruit.

I made it with paper mache over a wire frame
and used my favorite baby wipes
and more wire to make the leaves.


This is Sapphire, he is a wild rainbow lorikeet,
they are a local rain forest species,
and he knows my fig tree is special.
Sapphire is in love with our pet lorikeet
Emerald, and they had babies last year,
it seems he is back to spend more time with our Em
and he is quite comfortable
coming in to our home,
and getting into my art supplies !!!!!
and perching in my fig tree.


I hope he doesn't want to eat
its special fruits though.