Here it is at last! A while ago, I started talking about making a mobile including the ladybirds I had painted onto re-used plastic packaging. It took me a while to come up with the design and the materials but here it is! The wood I collected from the Water of Leith, it was part of a fallen branch, that needed to be trimmed to avoid tripping people up as they walk along the path! Then I have added some outer layers from honesty plants (also collected along the Water of Leith). The paper is reused office scrap, on which I wrote: a wrought iron fence - spotted with rust and ladybirds.
I'm hoping to make another mobile with more honesty seedpods and feathers!
34 comments:
This is just so amazingly creative, Juliet. I wonder why we are all so fascinated by ladybirds - I have always been intrigued by them. The paper quotation is the perfect Found Poem complement.
How fun is this, I'm constantly making wind chasers out of bits of this n that...fun colorful shadows!
That is a delightful mobile - great take for the shadow shot too.
Also like your blog's new look :)
I love your mobile! What fun! And, yes, very creative! Delightful shadow shots!
Have a great weekend!
Sylvia
Very clever of you! I do love mobiles.
This is so cool. A smarty green poet I can say, §;-)
Fun shot...
Happy SSS
Absolutely lovely Juliet - and your new header with the splitting chestnuts is so green - I love it.
I love it that your art mirrors nature and your materials are kind to her too. I made a mobile recently using gorse. When you strip down the outer bark and remove the thorns, wow, the wood underneath is a treasure.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Oh, how sweet- over here we call them ladybugs! I think I like ladybirds better!
:)
Love your creative post and wonderful shadows ;--)
Hugs and blessings,
That's so cool! I love that everything is either natural or recycled.
Good job on the mobile.
I enjoy mobiles..as well as wind chimes. What a great job you did and the shadows are great.
Happy SSS.
Love that mobile! Very creative AND resourceful.
Wow, your mobile is awesome! Beautiful, unique, creative.
This is so lovely. You must be very talented! I love mobiles and ladybirds.
The opaque shadows full of color are simple - and beautiful! The mobile is itself a work of art, and reusing mundane items that might be discarded is noble. But there are no rules that says an artist must use the same mediums as other artists - your choice makes lovely art!
your mobile turned out nicely Crafty as did the reflection pictures below and the mushroom pic Crafty boyfriend took. all interesting perspectives. have a great night.
Lovely mobile, and the new header too. Our garden is full of honesty, more and more each year - we never plant any, it is self-sown. At the moment it is spring here so I have a border full of its bright purple flowers.
So creative and intriguing! This would look fascinating moving with a gentle breeze!
A Water of Leith mobile is a great thing to discover on my first visit to your blog! Thanks for your comments on mine.
And here they are bêtes du bon dieu! Also coccinelles of course. A lovely idea, I like the translucency of it. What paint did you use?
I love mobile shadows. I have one I have been thinking of showing. I am inspired!
ladybird mobile
dancing like little insects
looking for their lunch
clever way to find shadows!
That is so pretty! I love the way you have used things found about the place and from nature and combined them to make a lovely delicate object. I used to like making mobiles years ago and used to use pieces of glass bottle from the shore of the river. I feel like making one again now I have seen yours!
I like how you've incorporated a beautiful poem in it, too!
You told me how hard it was to fnd all the materials you needed for this. I'm glad to see you've completed it!
What a wonderful mobile. Its so much fun to watch the shadows dancing on the walls...
Now isn't that a fun thing to do?!! Quite creative indeed! Happy SSS!
Wonderfully creative!
Paz
This is a fun shadow as well as fun object that casts the shadow!
Crafty Green Poet indeed!
Love the little moon shadow.
What a brilliant idea and it worked a treat! I love your other post too about your walk around Edinburgh gardens - the shot with the bird is so pretty!
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