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!
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.
ReplyDeleteHow fun is this, I'm constantly making wind chasers out of bits of this n that...fun colorful shadows!
ReplyDeleteThat is a delightful mobile - great take for the shadow shot too.
ReplyDeleteAlso like your blog's new look :)
I love your mobile! What fun! And, yes, very creative! Delightful shadow shots!
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Sylvia
Very clever of you! I do love mobiles.
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool. A smarty green poet I can say, §;-)
ReplyDeleteFun shot...
Happy SSS
Absolutely lovely Juliet - and your new header with the splitting chestnuts is so green - I love it.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the rest of your weekend.
Oh, how sweet- over here we call them ladybugs! I think I like ladybirds better!
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Love your creative post and wonderful shadows ;--)
ReplyDeleteHugs and blessings,
That's so cool! I love that everything is either natural or recycled.
ReplyDeleteGood job on the mobile.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy mobiles..as well as wind chimes. What a great job you did and the shadows are great.
ReplyDeleteHappy SSS.
Love that mobile! Very creative AND resourceful.
ReplyDeleteWow, your mobile is awesome! Beautiful, unique, creative.
ReplyDeleteThis is so lovely. You must be very talented! I love mobiles and ladybirds.
ReplyDeleteThe 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!
ReplyDeleteyour 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.
ReplyDeleteLovely 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.
ReplyDeleteSo creative and intriguing! This would look fascinating moving with a gentle breeze!
ReplyDeleteA Water of Leith mobile is a great thing to discover on my first visit to your blog! Thanks for your comments on mine.
ReplyDeleteAnd 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?
ReplyDeleteI love mobile shadows. I have one I have been thinking of showing. I am inspired!
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looking for their lunch
clever way to find shadows!
ReplyDeleteThat 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!
ReplyDeleteI like how you've incorporated a beautiful poem in it, too!
ReplyDeleteYou told me how hard it was to fnd all the materials you needed for this. I'm glad to see you've completed it!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful mobile. Its so much fun to watch the shadows dancing on the walls...
ReplyDeleteNow isn't that a fun thing to do?!! Quite creative indeed! Happy SSS!
ReplyDeleteWonderfully creative!
ReplyDeletePaz
This is a fun shadow as well as fun object that casts the shadow!
ReplyDeleteCrafty Green Poet indeed!
ReplyDeleteLove 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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