TAKE IT FURTHER CHALLENGE, MARCH FINISHED

Sharon B.'s theme for March is: "Do you ever notice the little things, the small moments, the details in life? This months challenge is to do just that, pay attention to the tiny details. Sometimes the small things become emblematic for something larger."

I did a lot of thinking about this month's theme. I would have loved to notice the little things in my garden, but my garden is still in a winter mess, and needs to be sorted out.

The thing that I see on a day to day basis, is this starfish, that occupies a place in a shadow box filled with shells in my home office where I work each day.

Throughout the past couple of weeks, I thought about what I was going to do. I decided to make a paper collage incorporating this starfish.

I have to explain that I have always loved the ocean, lighthouses, sea life, and my husband and I have a mutual love of sailing and old sailing ships.
Almost every room in our house reflects this.



This shows my completed collage. The piece at the time is a copy of the border that is in my bathroom that I just had to have several years ago when we remodeled our bathroom, with the sailing ships, lighthouse and whale.

I also stamped a row of starfish, and added a metallic placard (I collect a lot of scrapbooking items and stamps too). I cut out the picture of my starfish after I had enlarged it.

I also came across a quote of William Shakespeare that
I loved, "my bounty is as boundless as the sea.
my love as deep; the more to give to thee
the more I have, for both are infinite". It is from Romeo and Juliet, act II, scene 2 in Capulet's garden.




This is the back of the piece, I included some images of the many starfish I found online. I did not realize they came in so many shapes and colors.












I also thought I would show one of our nautical quilts. I did bluework squares of nautical motifs, or quotes and set them in a crazy setting.















I even incorporated in this 27' sailboat DH built.













And this 25' houseboat he built, that was our last boat.

Jewelry Roll

A number of years ago, I participated in a bluework round robin and this was my block. Some time later, I was getting ready to go on a cruise, and wanted to make a jewelry roll so that my necklaces and everything would not get tangled up. This was the way it looked on the outside. The other side has a number of pockets I can put my jewelry in, then roll it up and it has ties.

A year or so later, I was in another round robin, in which you sent a baggie of items, and the person you sent to had to make a usable item for you and send it back. I made my baggie person a jewelry roll and she love it.