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After I found the Twin Healing Trees in the woods a couple of weeks ago, I did a drawing of the picture I took of me standing between them.

I haven’t been back to them since then, but I think of them often.  I’ve also been thinking of making a fabric painting of the drawing and today I began it.

First I drew a pencil image on the fabric then stitched over it.

I used permanent marker for the facial features, stitched and used marker for the scarf and added fabric for the clothes.

I’m figuring out how to make the trees.  They need to be thicker, so I’ll add more fabric to them.

I know I’ll use the same fabric that I used for her jacket for the moss covering the bottoms of the trees, which she’s standing on.  And I have a vague idea for the space behind her.

I’m trying not to think too far ahead.  I’m working on the parts that I know or have an idea of what to do. I’m leaving what I don’t know and trusting it will come to me.

Our local printer A&M Printers is back in business.  Last week I got my business cards and today I picked up my Twin Healing Trees Postcards.

They are available again in my Etsy Shop (no controversy with this image).  They are 4″x6″ and a pack of 6 is $12 including shipping.  You can buy them here. 

I’m working on making some new postcards using images from my collages.  I have one in mind from my lastest collage using the title “I Belong To Me” in the postcard.

I didn’t expect to get my Twin Healing Tree Magnets so soon.  But they came in the mail yesterday.

It feels good to have them back in my Etsy Shop since they’re my best seller.  They’re 4″x2/3″ and they’re $6 + $1 shipping.  You can buy them here. 

I had the magnets, posters and postcards printed after I sold my Twin Healing Trees fabric painting.  It’s one of those images that I knew people would like to have in a more accessible form.

I came across the two trees on one of my walks in the woods and sat between them on their mossy seat feeling their grounding power. Later I took a picture of me standing between them then made it into a fabric painting.

You can see pictures of it and read about it here.

It took all morning and part of the afternoon for me to figure out how to begin my new fabric painting. I was working from the drawing I did the other day and the more I tried the more I thought that maybe the pencil drawing was as far as I was going to get.

I had the idea in my mind that this piece was going to be similar in size and technique as my Twin Healing Trees fabric painting.  But I finally gave up on that idea and decided that I had to let my expectation of what I thought it would be go, and allow it to become what it wanted to be.

The size was part of the problem, but also the face.  I couldn’t get it “right”.

What worked is when I pulled one of the old quilts from the pile on top of my shelf and cut it up.   I had no idea if it was the “right” size (it wasn’t, later I sewed another piece on to one side and will sew some onto the bottom too) but just took it to my sewing machine and started to sew.

I had spent part of the morning drawing faces with marker in my sketch pad so I had a better idea of what the face should look like.

Mostly I trusted myself to be able to do it.  And it finally worked.

Next, I cut out her shield and her dress in white fabric just to get an idea of the sizes and shapes.  That done, I went back to working on her face.

I have an idea of what her dress will look like.  I keep seeing it in soft dark greens.  I’m thinking of using matte medium to create the dress, like a collage instead of sewing it.  That way it will blend together more smoothly.

I did an experiment using the same quilt as a ground and some scraps of fabric.  Tomorrow I’ll be able to see what the fabric looks like when it dries and if it makes the whole thing too stiff to work with.

It began with the 2016 election.  I created a fiber painting that I called Show Your Soul after a quote from Clarissa Estes Pinkola.  She said at times like these the best we can do is “Show our souls.”

I loved her message and wanted to do something in reaction to having elected a  misogynist (among other things) into the WhiteHouse.  So  I made posters using the image from my fiber painting and Estes Pinkola’s words and hung them in my town.  I also gave them to people to hang in their towns.

This is where the idea came from for me to make more posters and postcards and eventually magnets using the images from my fiber paintings and their titles.

They all have to do with a sense of self-worth and being our true selves.  Even my Twin Healing Trees speaks to this message of understanding the worth of our natural world and how we are connected to it.

My lastest magnet, I Belong To Me, is an image from a collage that came out of my recent self-imposed Artist Residency.

My magnets are $5-$6 each and shipping is $1 for one or more.  You can buy them here, in my Etsy Shop. 

I have a few Happy House Potholders for sale in my Etsy Shop.  I created them as charms to help keep a happy house.

They’re $18 each + $5 shipping for one or more.   I also still have my Twin Healing Tree, Show your Soul and I Am Enough Magnets which are $6 including shipping along with some postcards and Flying Vulva Decals and pins.

You can see them all and buy them here. 

I did not spend today in my studio as I have the past three days. Today I was busy taking care of business.

I got lots of orders for my Show You Soul, I Am Enough, and Twin Healing Tree magnets. (Thank you all!) so I spent a good part of my day in my shipping office/guestroom.

I got to the post office just before they closed.

I sold out of my Twin Healing Trees postcards and I ran out of business cards.  Luckily I had a bunch of my old business cards so I’m using them till I can get more.

While I was at the post office I saw that the door to A&M printers was open.  (They’re conveniently right  across the street).  So I’m assuming they have reopened.  I didn’t get a chance to email them my orders, but I’ll do it tonight and hope that they really are open for business again.

While I was upstairs working  Bud and Zinnia came to keep me company for a little while.  Then around 3pm Fate and Zinnia came up to remind me it was time to feed the donkeys and sheep.

I looked down on the knee-high, stump of a young tree sprouting green mushrooms and thought of the yellowish-green swirling dots I had just finished drawing on the background of my Twin Healing Trees fabric painting.

Not the same but similar.

Here the circles of the tree rings were not seen flat like when cut by a chainsaw, but three dimensional like the ruins of a castle.   I also saw the swirls and circles I made earlier with my greenish/yellow marker in the growth rings of the mushrooms.

Such a beautiful tree stump, dead, but so alive.

Then on my walk, I came to another tree stump.  This one hollowed out and big enough for me to sit inside of.  And when I did, right in front of me was a conical leaf, strung on a strand of, what I assume is, spiders web.

Even when battered by the wind, the stand held tight.

There had to be a story here.  The leaf was too much like a cocoon or nest for a small creature.  And the strand so strong.  There was nothing inside the leaf, but it was all seemed much too intentional to just be there for my pleasure.