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<\/p>\nHappy New Year from Minneapolis! I am cozied up in our snow globe, I mean house, happy that\u00a0there is snow on the ground and we do not have to shovel one bit of it!!! I hope that all of you\u00a0found joy this past year, and that\u00a02016\u00a0will bring more love and happiness into all of our\u00a0lives.<\/p>\n
After all that has gone on in our own lives and around the world, I thought about stillness. Taking\u00a0a moment or two, to be still and be present in the right now. We are always so busy, if not in the\u00a0physical sense, then in our minds. The running around, searching for something, not even sure\u00a0of what we want or need. Is something missing? Or did we just not look hard enough to see that\u00a0what we need is right here, waiting for us to acknowledge it.\u00a0My New Years wish for all of us, is to discover that what we need can be found in our lives and\u00a0hearts. That if we look, we can take the time to see, and by seeing, we can find joy in the little\u00a0things of our everyday lives.<\/p>\n
My project came about because of my infatuation with the stunning series of\u00a0photographs that Gale shot for the new Art Sheet series! It took me a long time to get this\u00a0project going because I could NOT pick which yummy divine images to use!!!! I closed my eyes,\u00a0picked, and off I went. My literal and figurative homage to finding a still life.<\/p>\n
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Other supplies: Red art marker,\u00a0stamp,\u00a0old linen colored ink pad,\u00a0brown and white powder pigment,\u00a0ball chain,\u00a0brass embellishment,\u00a0crystal flat,\u00a0ModPodge,\u00a0E6000<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I cut out my two images, and used the ModPodge to adhere them to the banner. While that was Be happy in this new year, stay warm and I will chat with you again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy New Year from Minneapolis! I am cozied up in our snow globe, I mean house, happy that\u00a0there is snow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,129,138],"tags":[214,269,215,144,20,270],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-alterables","category-assemblage-2","category-michelle","tag-amazing-alterables","tag-gothic-banner","tag-michelle","tag-michelle-talley","tag-paperwhimsy","tag-photo-art-sheets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/michelletalleypear-feature.jpg?fit=450%2C537&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6473C-1Ce","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6217,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\ndrying, I used the red marker to color the the base of the wings, the frame piece and the back
\nembellishment\/hanger. I layered the pigment powder until I got the color I wanted and then used
\nthe stamp and ink to doll it up a bit. Yes, I waited for it to dry and then I used the E6000 to put it
\nall together. I took a piece of ball chain and dropped it over the frame, and used the E6000 to
\nadhere that and the other embellishments. Finished!<\/p>\n