Heather Eddy Art

My camera has to go in the shop. The trip we took to the beach last year proved too much sand for such a fastidious piece of equipment. It's been getting more and more temperamental until... it just won't work! I'm busy making flowers. BIG ones, small ones, all colors and patterns. I have a project in mind that will set my house apart from everyone else's. And I'll show you progress. After I get the camera back! edit -- Click here to see how you make the flowers in the above picture .

My trip to Washington draws to a close tomorrow morning as I start the flight home to Bakersfield. One of the things I've loved about Tacoma is that there is a ton of public art and art shops. My heart sinks a bit as I think about returning to my hometown where I don't feel that same art spirit, that sense of beauty of place. Hmm... I guess it's just up to me to make my home and my neighborhood and my workplace as much a place of beauty as I, by myself, can do. I've only got my tablet with me, so the pictures are unedited and not rotated in the right directions, but you can still get the gist of what I'm doing. Several artists I've admired over the years have a lot of details in the form of patterns in their work. I paint a lot of flat areas (Granted, they have layers and layers of paint in them) but I wanted to try out some pattern details in my houses. Here's an attempt (Blurry!). I rather like this one. It's a piece I'm doing from m...

I'm here in Washington this week for a library conference and my room looks out at Mt. Ranier, an active, but "between eruptions" volcano ( http://geology.com/usgs/rainier/ ). If it decides to blast, I have a great view! I had a little time before my first meeting of the day to paint. This is the first time I've been so completely alone to do art in FOREVER. I miss my family, but I'm comforting myself with chocolate and a wonderful big bed all to myself...

Um... two weeks since I last posted? I knew I'd been gone a bit, but two weeks ? I've been busy with school preparations, but did make time to try new recipes from Pinterest . Here's the latest of my success stories! Oatmeal-Fudge Cookies (yes, I said fudge! ) These are bar cookies, so get out your 9x13 pan and heat up the oven to 350°F. Cookie : 1 cup butter 2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 1/3 cup milk 2 t. vanilla 2 1/2 cups flour 1 t. baking soda 1 t. salt 3 cups old-fashioned oatmeal Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, milk and vanilla. In separate bowl, mix flour, soda and salt. Add flour mixture to batter and mix until just incorporated. Fold in oats. Batter will be thick. Put 1/3 dough into fridge/freezer to cool until very firm. Fudge : 1 can condensed milk 1/3 cup butter 1 t. vanilla 2 cups chocolate chips Heat in saucepan until melted. Assembly: Spread 2/3 of your cookie dough into the 9x13 pan. Spread your chocolate fudge mixture over dou...

The cheap watercolors are brilliantly pigmented, but opaque. It's fun to experiment!  It's almost time for school to start again, both for me and for Kiff! I have a whole new format for my classes - I'm finally teaching ONLINE instead of just offline (think correspondence course). Anyway, it involves setting up "shells" and transferring files and formatting and creating all new exams. In addition to that, I'm working on a couple of other projects and visiting with friends from out of the country (Japan!) and getting ready for my mom to visit next week. I'm tiiiiiiired! A display showing the steps in making a manuscript One bonus of visiting with friends is getting another opportunity to visit the Getty museum in LA. This time they had some illuminated manuscripts available to see. No Hoefnagels, but that just means there is always something new each time I go...

I started a blog called The Working Mormon Mom . Why? Because I keep hearing about Mormon Mommy bloggers and their great stay-at-home lives. There are no blogs out there for us who work (and still have Temple Recommends). I decided to fix that. And it will be a place I can share my love of the Gospel and talk about how it has shaped my choices and my life. This blog will continue and be full of art. The other one will be work, home and life. Come join me if that's your wont!

My attempt at quilling. I found a picture online of a scrolled heart made of pink, cream and lilac papers, quilled in a way I'd never seen before - huge, fat scrolls and little tight coils. What a combo! I've never tried quilling and decided to take the plunge. It's harder than it looks. Hats off to all you quillers! Of course, I can't find the original inspiration picture now, but the one below is very close to it (just imagine it in the cream, pink and lilac and you'll see why I swooned) and I'm pretty sure it's from the same person. If not, the one below is from Sena Runa and you can find her work on Etsy . :) The inspiration - sort of