a peek inside the fishbowl

A few readers might recognize (from the photo above) an attempt to make 1″ collage squares.

I took this photo last week, and I haven’t done much more on them since then. I just haven’t had time.

I’d been starved to work on something creative. So I decided to try making these mini collages squares a la the infamous Chrysti. I cut 100 squares (what was I thinking?) to start, and now I have a stack of about 90 left.

They’re not working out as well as I wanted.

FYI: here’s her tutorial. Are they gorgeous or what?

I should have mine red. I made them green/copper and gold (even though red is my fave colour to work with) because I didn’t want to copy Chrysti too closely. Gack. 

Perhaps I’ll scan some and show you where I’m heading. In the meantime I have re-realized something. Good collage is hard. Bad collage is easy. 

ETA: here are four. Only 96 more to go. Hmm.