Embroidered Collage

I still like the first spread best (previous entry), and feel like the second is not quite done, but it will do.   I could add more to the third as well, but somehow it looks done.  I just played with the blues and the ocean theme to go along with the sailor boy.  The third spread is an acrylic painting with a few collage elements and some journaling on focusing that I've been doing lately.  It follows, in part, the steps of an online tutorial I'm participating in.  It's odd, but I like it.

I'm finding these calendars so frustrating.  I just don't feel I'm doing the quality of work that I want to be.  But I know I'm learning and growing by pushing through it.  I'm certainly not bored, and I do enjoy the creating, I'm just not satisfied with most of the results.  Ah well, it will most likely get better.