Day 17:

"Make something inspired by and/or that goes over and eye (yours or someone else's)."

As soon as I read today's inspiration I thought SHARK! There eyes are so interesting as they seem to be all pupal.  A couple of high school friends of mine have just returned from a scuba diving trip where they swam with sharks.  The pictures I have seen looked fantastic!  So here is my shark eye in pencil.  Cheers.

Day 16:

"Make a unique print by cutting up a potato or sponge, and use it to stamp of a material on your choice."

Well I used a potato and carved a simple mushroom into it.  Still had all the pumpkin carving tools handy.  Then I tested it with some red paint in my sketch book.  The pattern sort of made me think of a faerie ring.  So I turned the page and stamped out a faerie ring.  Added the grass with a green sharpie and the quote by William Shakespeare in pencil.  That is my Potato up in the corner.  This was fun and I like how it turned out.

Day 15:

"What can you do with just a dollar?  Use a dollar bill as your medium or inspiration today."

I am a day late but I did do something creative yesterday.  I carved pumpkins and finished Halloween costumes.  In Canada we don't have dollar bills we have a dollar coin so using it as a medium seemed limited.  What we do have plenty of is dollar stores.  I went into one and found a ball of fake grey mohair in a lovely grey colour.

I spent a couple of hours today knitting little rabbits using a pattern from Mochimochi Land . I am knitting them for a neighbourhood Easter Egg Hunt that happens every year.  I will also use some  for The Tiny Bunnies Movement which I joined on Ravelry .  I love idea of leaving little bunnies to make someone's day.

The Seven I made today barely put a dent in the ball of yarn.  That is the dollar coin in the background that inspired them. I will continue to knit them throughout the year and I will post a picture of them all when I have used up the yarn.  Lets see how many I can knit with my dollar ball of yarn.

Day 14:

"Make something microscopic.  How small can you work?  Can you make something that requires a magnifying glass or microscope to see?"

The answer is no, but I did work as small as I thought I could.  I made two Canadian penny sized pictures.  Both are based off photos I have take at or around my parents property.  One is a beautiful moth we saw on the side of the house, the other is some fungus growing on a tree.

I can hardly believe I have completed two weeks already.  This is fun.

Day 13:

"Use tea leaves or tea bags (used or unused) or even just liquid tea (in a cup or not) to create something today."

I love tea!  One look in my cupboard and you would know.  I have numerous cans of loose tea and even some boxes with tea bags all in different flavours.  Each of my three children even have a favourite tea.  I was excited today to use tea and decided to make 'paint'.  I set out 10 small cups with a different tea in each last night and let them steep overnight to get strong colours.

Looking at the colours brewing all browns and reds made me think desert.  Being a little homesick for Australia (where I lived for 6 years) I decided to paint Uluru.  I sketched it out and decided to test out my colours.  The interesting thing I learned about tea is that it can look one colour in the cup, a different colour when used as paint and sometimes even a third colour when it dries.

Final product is my interpretation of Uluru painted with tea. Happily my children all recognised it with out any prompting.

It was fun.  Only thing I would of changed was to use watercolour paper instead of my sketch book because the tea is really thin like a watercolour wash and the watercolour paper would have held up better.