Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

Sweetwater (Water Reclamation Ponds) in Tucson is one of my favorite places to visit and do some nature meditating.   Sometimes it smells a little foul; sometimes it doesn’t.   You just take your chances!   It is a popular site for birder’s as the 7 ponds (which might be full or not) draw a variety of birds.   On my recent visit to Tucson I just had to go see what birds were visiting and walk the trails.   It is so easy to regain a sense of peace in this place.   Of course I had my trusty camera and am sharing what I saw with you 3 Turtles Sunning Solitary Sandpiper -He's been here several months  Great Horned Owl  Beautiful Yellow Warbler Great Egret at the top of a tall tree - searching for food in the water below.  Pie-billed Grebe - in reflection  A Surprise! 3 American White Pelicans Red-winged Blackbird - if you've got it, flaunt it!

My newest tools have been on the floor long enough!   The doming kit and the Swantrom Disc Cutter Set were getting dusty and I was getting anxious to try them out.   Out of the box and unwrapped! Swantrom Disc Cutter Set Remember my trip to the junk yard in a previous blog?   My friend, Kim, and I divided the scrap metal and the wire and it too was sitting on the floor.   Right!   I could hardly walk to the work bench. I had a couple of polymer clay discs ready for something and I liked the blue copper (someone’s failed etching project) from the junk yard.   So I took the disc cutter and tried it out.   After a couple of tries with the mallet, I had a disc.   Wow! It works!   And a second disc and tiny holes in each of those. I was careful to leave enough blue copper around the holes I cut so that I could use the leftover for another project I have in mind. Next the doming kit…not as easy.   In fact, I watched a Beaducation video on YouTube about using it and I will prac

Not long ago, I cleaned out one of my sewing drawers.   I had a lot of pieces of vintage lace.   At one time I was going to make wonderful Victorian accessories but that time has passed.   Ashley Spicer is a friend who is so talented, the creativity just drips off her fingers!   She makes fabulous children’s clothes as well as ‘Elf Coats’ for grownups.      She just started making corsets and cuffs and uses recycled fabrics.   She was the perfect candidate for my laces.  Check her out at http://www.etsy.com/people/beTwitterpated    My cousin, Sally, lives in San Angelo and we share our love of art and living often.   When I told her I gave my laces to Ashley, she said, “You photographed them first didn’t you?”   Hmmm. Well NO I had not.   It seems Sally does a lot of digital scrapbooking and was drooling over what she thought I had given away with no record.   You never know …..   The day I took photographs of Ashley in her ‘Elf Coats’ for her art submittal, I also picked up the