
This week's Studio Friday challenge was black and white. What is black and white in your studio? Although I love all shades of white, especially creamy white, I don't think of myself as a black and white only kind of gal. I didn't expect I'd have much. The first and only thing that came to my mind when I read the topic of the week was my "P" mug from Anthropologie. I love the graphics on these mugs and the shape. So when I went up to go take the picture, I was so surprised to find it amidst a sea of black and white tones. Truth be told, there was a diet Pepsi can in it, as there always is. That's it's purpose, to hold my diet Pepsi can so I won't spill it on whatever I might be working on at the time (as, of course, I have done many a time). It just looks better without it. There was also a water bottle on the table, but it wasn't pretty either. This is a little table just off to the right and slightly behind my desk (under the dream letters of a previous post). There is a black and cream pitcher that holds long paintbrushes, a jar FULL of mother of pearl buttons (one of the ebay obsessions of long ago), some millinery flower bunches and an old folding picture frame that holds black and whites of my Dad and Aunt Bonnie. A lot of black and white after all. Surprising.
The Studio-Friday game was on! To see the black and white. This photo is the corner of a tray that sits on my desk...an all black and white (ish-I'm including cream as white) corner. There is an old tarnished silver box, the porcelain letters found on my trip, the heart medals and shoe clip from the flea market, some paper place cards and some felt balls I was trying to make this Christmas. I don't know how to felt yet, but wanted a strand of felt pom poms for the tree...this is as far as that got.
Then I saw this, a little wall by the closet with an old chalkboard. On it sits a smaller chalkboard with a design scratched into it by my daughter years ago (how cute is it that she wrote "I love me"?) and a clothespin I covered in music paper after seeing one somewhere. A rhinestone shoe clip hangs from white ribbon. There is red in the chalkboard and red on the little strawberry I made, but overall, black and white.
On another corner of my desk was this black and white grouping, white trays for sorting small things on my desk with a photo of my kids from Halloween a few years ago-(I can't believe that their costumes are pretty much black and white too!), a white candle, black ink bottle, and a diminutive white teacup with little bits of mostly black and white things tucked inside for safe keeping.
Smack dab in the middle of everything on my desk was this black and white: a pile that has Teesha's latest Art & Life zine (love this issue!), the confirmation packet for Art Fest, and some doodles I was drawing while at my son's baseball practice. Obviously, I had to crop this one tightly to keep it black and white, the rest of the pile that it is lying on is many colored.
Then this little pile of photos caught my eye. This is from when I was having my Dad's birthday party and copied a bunch of his childhood photos to place around the party. Of course, I need to put all this away, but it was another black and white corner in plain view waiting to be discovered.
And yet another vignette of black and white. This is a little box I found and bought to use at Christmas time to hold a feather tree. It holds fragile silver Christmas picks throughout the year. In it is an old photo from my childhood. My Mom and I were searching for shells. I love to look for shells and my Mom did too. Once she made a giant shell covered mirror for our entry. I know that if she were alive today we would go shelling together and make crafts together from treasures found. I also think it's funny that while my older brother was there watching us, he clearly does not share the scavenging gene, poor guy.
So that's my Studio Friday black and white entry. This was a very fun one for me. Who knew I had so much black and white? Some of the magic of Studio Friday is that it makes me look at my own studio, myself, a little differently, see things that I didn't even realize were there. Thank you Tine for coming up with Studio Friday and organizing all that that entails! More Studio Friday entries here.