adventures of a quilting diva

Last weekend I turned my kitchen into a piñata factory, making chili pepper piñatas for Cinco de Mayo centerpieces. My daughter prefers strawberries to chili peppers, so the half-finished one in the back is going to be a strawberry (we’re going to cut green tissue paper leaves for around the stem and add tiny bits of black tissue paper for the seeds).

While sticking bits of old phone book pages and tissue paper to my piñatas I discovered the allure of collage. I love the way the text peeked through the transparancy of the tissue paper. It would be fun to explore collage further, except perhaps not with the Yellow Pages. I don’t think people would appreciate having their names and telephone listings immortalized into a piece of artwork. It might be neat to try something out with scraps of fabric as well, kind of like Snippet Sensations meets paper mache. I’m also considering designing a chili pepper quilt (got the chili pepper fabric already waiting to go!) Trying something you’ve never done before leads to more ideas for more new things and so on and so on.

As you can see the chili peppers turned out quite cute! If you want to make a piñata yourself, here’s a link (To make the balloon into more of a pepper shape I cut up cereal boxes and taped a cone of cardboard to the bottom of the balloon before I started the paper mache layers.) Piñatas aren’t hard to make. It might be just the thing to wake up your muse and inspire your next creative adventure. =(^_^)=