Advent 2019

first Sunday in Advent- not much different than previous years, but still pretty, i think. one of my facebook friends asked me why i did this at church :) i explained that it is meant to be contemplative liturgical art- to make us think about the meaning of Advent including 'light in the darkness'. plus, it's really really off-white in our sanctuary, except for the red carpet up the center aisle and altar steps. i think that color is a good thing :) 

Reformation

So I decided to think 'outside the box' on this one :) Since Reformation pops up toward the end of Ordinary Time ( there's 3 weeks left before we go into Advent) I decided to just add red to what's already there, to co-ordinate with the Paraments for this Sunday. We have one young man being confirmed this Sunday. I'm thinking that this design will also get folks thinking about Christmas a little......and hopefully I haven't broken any liturgical 'rules' :) 

The Day of Pentecost

This year I made some paper cut out flames to add to the other things I had on hand. I think it adds a whole other dimension to the mobile......

Easter

Oy. I got a little bit behind on posting this one :) I used basically the same 'ingredients' that I had on hand, but somehow it always looks a little different from the year before.

Lenten Sermon Series

I made this banner as a "one off"- our Pastor did a sermon series for Wednesday evening Lenten services of " Signs That Point to the Cross".  (It was a great series) I made the banner out of white poster paper, and used some giant foam rubber stamps to ink the words on kraft paper that I tore the edges of, to give it a rougher look.  It's a little hard to see in the picture, but there's a cross in the background that I added each week's word over. The color comes from Ken Oliver's 'Color Burst' powder ( I LOVE THAT STUFF!)  Once again I've crossed over two hobbies- Liturgical arts and stamping :) 

Good Friday

Here you can see that the previous Lenten mobile has gotten darker- small wooden crosses were added. I also removed all the 'shiny' and glittery ribbons ( our aggregate floor is quite sparkly, thanks to me :)  )  Looking ahead to the change for Easter morning! 

Lent 2019

This is actually week two.....it doesn't look a whole lot different than last week- I just added a little more blue to the mix. It will continue to get bigger and darker as we progress through the next few weeks. 

Ordinary Time Pt. 3

Ok- here's a close up just before I brought it down to change to Lent. I had added a lot more gold and green ribbons. I actually wrote a little blurb for the church bulletin explaining the significance of things ( in my mind, anyway :) )  that the circles represent seeds of faith, and the small/large ones remind us of our changing faith. The green is for 'growth', and the ribbons represent that He is the Vine, we are the branches. Folks seemed to like having my craziness explained :) 

Ordinary Time part 2

I added a few things this week. Years ago I saw a store display that had taken cds and linked them together with big jump rings- my daughter and I made a big window covering for her room out of all those annoying 'free internet' ones that used to come in the mail :) It makes for quite the light show as the sun catches the rainbow colored edges of the circles! So there's a few strings of them on here, plus some leaf shapes I cut from sheet copper and green metallic paper. I didn't take a close up shot, as I wanted to show just how high up in the Sanctuary ceiling this thing is :) 

*Ordinary Time*

This Sunday is the beginning of 'Ordinary time' in the liturgical church year.  If you want to know what that means, here's a link - ordinary time -and although my church happens to be Lutheran, the explanation still works :)  I went a little 'retro' this year and used some circles from a previous year- I look at them as seeds of faith. There's some vines, ribbons and leaves mixed in.  I started smaller too, because I want to make it grow every few weeks. You can also see our beautiful baptismal font that was made years ago by one of our members.  It sure looks different at 'ground level' than it does 30 feet up in the air! 

Advent Part Two

I've got a new Liturgical Arts buddy! Someone who loves making things for the Lord as much as I do :)  She designed this from some Pinterest inspiration ( but of course, the Holy Spirit gets the most credit!) Since the hanging rod is wider, to accommodate other existing banners, we added lots of ribbon to the sides- it coordinates wonderfully with the big old "jellyfish" in the middle of the Sanctuary - see below.  So thankful for creative friends.