Thank you for your ideas on "What Next?".   Suggestions include beads, crystals, streaming sunlight, a gazing cat, textures, tiles, velvets and satins; all make for intriguing design elements!

I am exploring options using Photoshop Elements and CorelDraw.  I cropped the focal point into a circle with Photoshop Elements and exported the image as a .gif. 

With a .gif file format I get just the circle and can then place it on top of other images in CorelDraw (or other graphic program). 

Do I want a single fabric or patchwork background? 

How light or dark? What about a large border? Or maybe a pieced border?

I have painted the background black. Now what? I'm a little underwhelmed. It needs something more. Quilting will help give it texture but I'm not sure that will be enough.

I had planned to quilt it and mount it on a round canvas. But now I'm not so sure. Maybe I'll finish it off round and mount it on a square patchwork "under quilt". Any suggestions?

Brand new jeans with holes in them are quite popular. Not so much with Daddy and the principal at school.

I patched the holes with some left over fabric. The patches are two layers fused together to make it more substantial.
I got the idea from some RL jeans in a fashion magazine. The ones in the magazine had a buttonhole stitch around the patches in a contrasting thread.  Reminded me of some I had in the 70's...

Circular shapes fascinate me. These are Maharam and Arc/Com upholstery fabrics. The one in the lower left corner is a reintroduction of a design from 1960.

I'm supposed to be painting the bathroom but could not resist painting a bit on my work in progress. It is the same design as the fabric painting in my blog logo but with different colors.

The white lines left by the Elmer's glue resist did not provide enough contrast so I am painting the lines with black Pebeo paint.  I like the contrast and the "painterly" look.   I plan to mount it on a round canvas for hanging once quilted.  Half quilt and

I tried two projects in the past two weeks with black resist but the resist looked plasticy no matter how much I thinned it.  I threw away the half-full bottle of black resist; not wasting my time or fabric on that anymore!