Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

  Having completed #the100dayproject in 2019 and 2020, I wondered if  I would do it again this year and thinking I had lots of time to think about it , I didn't think a decision would be imminent. And  surprise  - this year, the starting date was brought forward to 31 January - TODAY. I  hadn't really given it a lot of thought and there wasn't a lot of planning... However, I had decided I didn't want to go another 100 little things, but still wanted to feature the garden, or my neighbourhood somehow. Not to go into the long story  how many projects I thought of  and how many times I changed my mind, my project will be #100gardenthreads .   in many ways, this is not dissimilar to many of the other series of envelopes and  stitched pins  (#100envelopes and #100pinpoems ) . In this project, I am   using both meanings of thread 1) as in sewing - a fine fibre and 2) as in a book - its story or the way it develops , one part connecting to the other . I have gathered 20 foldin

 A collaged and embroidered art tag  submitted for the Tag Tuesday theme "Faery Garden "  Materials : gel print paper, tea bags, coloured paper.  Techniques: gel plate printing, mark making with acrylic inks, machine and hand stitching.  The stamp was on a tea bag, and is from an unknown source,

 These days, I am always late to the Tag Tuesday party, but here are my offerings for the  current theme. NUMBERS . I have interpreted this theme fairly loosely....  in the above collaged tag,  there are very small numbers on the green paper section, which is part of an old map, so the numbers are reference points.  I am also counting the numbers on the postage stamp.  And likewise for the other two ...and I am sure you also  spotted 8 on the one below.   While I was creating these, I was thinking of other ways to interpret this theme, and I just couldn't stop remembering one of my favourite TV shows....  how would you have interpreted NUMBERS? 

  Happy New Year - today is full of hope for a healthier, happier, more settled and  more stable times.  Today, we have had a grey day most unfitting for heralding a new beginning, but this afternoon, the skies are beginning to clear, just giving us a glimpse of better days ahead.  Did you know 1 January wasn't always the beginning of the year ?  The first time New Year's Day was 1 January was 45 BC , based on solar calculations instead of lunar cycles.  As the Roman Calendar needed reform, Julius Caesar enlisted the  experitse of an Alexandrian astronomer,   Sosigenes,    who advised  ignoring  the lunar cycle  and  recommended  following  the solar year, as did the Egyptians. The year was calculated to be 365 and 1/4 days, and Caesar added 67 days to 46 B.C., making 45 B.C. begin on January 1, rather than in March. He also decreed that every four years a day be added to February, thus theoretically keeping his calendar from falling out of step. Even so, a slight miscalculatio