sassacraft #11

i'm back in the game, folks. mostly. i may not be able to complete projects as fast as i want, because my wrist is starting to protest. i sprained it as a teenager. i think i was playing wall ball in the back parking lot at church and fell and bent it backwards, or maybe i was jumping off the swings on the swing set in our backyard and and tried to catch myself and fell on it weird. actually, it was probably both. well, you may or may not know that old injuries can flare up from time to time when particular strain is placed on the joints. like staring a weight lifting routine, driving a lot, rolling cake pops (pictures on that to come), writing, typing, lifting small children all day, or getting on a crafting binge that has thus far produced 8 completed projects in about a month, with another three in process.

so the strain put my wrist in an immobilizing brace, and i can't use it a lot. when it starts to hurt, i have to stop. it even swelled a little, and i started thinking about that part in the Star Trek movie where McCoy keeps injecting Kirk with different vaccines to make him look ill, and Kirk has all these adverse allergic reactions, but it works because McCoy gets to take Kirk onto the Enterprise...rewind, i sound like a dweeb. but if you know me personally, you already know that i am a dweeb. and i own that.

moving on.

this is a piece i made for my mom. one of her favorite chapters is Psalm 1. she loves the imagery of a "tree planted by streams of water," and so do i. and it makes me think of "oaks of righteousness," which is one of my favorite images in Scripture. i sketched the piece first and painted it with watercolors. then i transferred the image to canvas. i used pages from Psalms for the stream, trunk, and leaves. my mom and i worked together on a paraphrase of Psalm 1:2-3: "How blessed is the man who delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on it day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields fruit in its season and does not wither, but prospers in all he does."

i kept the watercolor sketch, and mom is going to hang the canvas in her bedroom.