The interior of the heart has some blue in honor of Colorado State Trooper Corporal Daniel Groves, who died while assisting motorists in the blizzard.
The rest of the heart has white strips along with a few black strips. In the blizzard, it was a sea of white with a few shadows.
The houses across the street were a shadow during the blizzard.
Snow in blizzard form is so dangerous. Many of my neighbors became stranded around town. I read reports of 1,100 plus being stranded around Colorado Springs.
Streets in our neighborhood became parking lots as people couldn’t see in the white out conditions plus drivers couldn’t understand the depth of the snow drifts. The snow drifts were crazy.
Thankfully, my family was able to stay home throughout the storm. We had snow drifts a foot high in front of our garage over a layer of ice.
On March 12, I received a copy of my friend Wendy Greenley’s book Lola Shapes The Sky.
It’s a lovely story about a young cloud Lola, who doesn’t always conform to the cloud norms. Wendy’s words are perfectly paired with illustrations by Paolo Domeniconi.
Wendy shared the story about her book at Susanna Leonard Hill’s blog. This post includes a picture of a quilled item I made for Wendy.
Lola | March 12, 2019 | card stock strips and bleeding tissue paper
I used my March 12 heart for another Lola project, because I was excited about the publication of Wendy’s book.
For a writer, holding a REAL book is such a thrill. For a critique partner of a published writer, it’s a wonderful thrill to see your friend’s hard work in its finished form.
I’m very proud of Wendy and the work writers of all genres do to share their stories with readers.
I hope you have fun reading this week!
I used bleeding tissue paper to create some color in the background.I still struggle to create bold enough word. Here’s the word Lola, before she was surround by cloud strips.
I found an old Reader’s Digest book at the free table at my library branch. Book pages cut into strips are good and not so good. Unless you find a book with a gold (or another colored) edge, you won’t have any color variety. You can see words on the strips at an angle.
The book used for this project is the Reader’s Digest Condensed Books Volume 4 1976.
I crimped the strips and made loose coils for this heart.
