Beaded Journal Project #10
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This is a little beaded and quilted piece that I did as part of Robin Atkin's Beaded Journal project. Artists from around the world spent a year creating beaded works to reflect whatever was going on in their lives at the time. I was involved in this project in 2009. It's still ongoing if you want more information--just check Robin's website.
This piece was created in April 2009, in honor of spring. When I was growing up on Vashon Island, there was a little clearing in the woods near our house. There had been a house there at one time, and we found some bits of it- foundation stones buried in earth and grass, a few wooden bits of what had been the outhouse roof, and a few old medicine bottles.
The people who had lived there, who knows how many years back, had planted bluebells, and over the years the bluebells took over the clearing and started spreading into parts of the woods where there was a bit of sunlight. Every spring there would be thousands of them. My sister and I used to go and pick them. So bluebells always make me think of Spring.
photo by audin malmin, angry viking llc.
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