I have finished two more quilt blocks.
They take a lot of time so I was considering
just taking the other two I did (as shown
earlier in this blog) to make a
small quilt…for now I am going to stick to
my original plan to make nine blocks.
With the holidays over I am starting to do
more art work. This is my first drawing of the new year.
This is showing the flower in card form. It will be folded
down the middle with my logo on the back.
This is another version I did with photo shop
and layers. It will also be folded down the middle as a card.
I belong to a book club that my daughter
started. If the book of the month was chosen
by you…you are responsible to bring refreshments.
My book this month was The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein. It is a wonderful book and I
recommend reading it even if you don’t like racing
or dogs. Did I mention it is written from the perspective
of a dog. Anyway my refreshment was dog bone cookies.
The other evening I noticed the sun setting.
It was beautiful. I tried to take a picture but missed it.
The next morning the sunrise was just as beautiful.
I took a picture out my kitchen window.
This is what I saw…minus the fact that you can
never really capture the beauty of a sunrise
with a camera.
We continue to work on Amanda’s room at the library.
The butterflies and flowers are done.
Some work to do on the books…
They hung the picture of Amanda.
What a difference that makes.
My daughter Kimberly wanted a Christmas dress
for her puppy Kat. She wasn’t finding what she
wanted so I said…”I could probably make you something
if you found me a pattern.” (I made many of their clothes
and their dolls’ clothes when they were little.)
So she found me a pattern and we picked out fabric.
Here is Kat in her new dress. (She is the kind of
dog that seems to enjoy clothes)
I had some fabric left over so I made Cowboy
a bow tie.
Hope you are enjoying this festive season!!
Using these two pictures I drew
my Christmas card.
So to all of you from my elf dogs and me…
Happy whatever you celebrate!!
One moment in time can change your life forever.
A good friend of mine was driving home a month ago.
A car going the opposite direction hit her driver door
(she had fallen asleep at the wheel)
A pickup truck attempted to avoid the crash by leaving the
road. The impact of the first crash pushed her car into the
truck. She was air lifted to a major hospital and in
intensive care for a couple weeks. She suffered 2
broken legs a broken arm and neck injury.
Even with all that she is in very good spirits when I visit her.
But why do these things happen?
She just as easily could have died. So was she saved
by an angel…where was the angel two seconds earlier…
This collage is my attempt to understand this
event. I still believe everything happens for
a reason but her life is changed forever.
I am still trying to portray the metamorphosis
of a flower to a fairy. In this collage I used parts
of my last fuchsia drawing.
It’s football season! Even though I am not a
big football fan, I love being with my family
Sunday afternoon while they watch. To keep
myself entertained I do applique and bead
embroidery. Here are two block I have completed.
My latest collage card is about the idea
of letting go, living in the moment….not
the past…not the future…just now.
I find that I am fighting the very notion of it…
although in my heart I know it is what I need to do.
Amanda was rarely without her Teddie.
So it seemed fitting to put him in her library room.
We have had requests for the instructions
for the card box. I did a video with the help of my daughter.
These boxes are very easy to make as you will see in this video…
I have often thought that fuchsia flowers
look like faeries. That was my thought when I drew
this card. Do you believe in faeries?
I did two other versions of the same theme.
These cards get folded in the middle so on
the front you only get a hint of the faerie.
This is a horizontal card.
This one is vertical.
Most Tuesdays I still go to the library
with Gene. Here is the progress so far….
This is a closeup on the latest butterfly…
Tuesday my daughter asked me about invitations for
her house warming party. I took the blueprint of her house porch
and added a balloon with time date address and directions on the back.
I made the blueprint green because her house is green.
By Friday I had 50 postcards printed for her.
I hope it doesn’t rain.
Once a month Gene and I go to a retirement
home and make cards with some of the people that
live there. This month we made daisy cards then
folded them into boxes.
So the day after the wedding my daughter Kimberly
got a dog. She calls her Kat.
Good thing she is cute…
My daughters’ wedding was a month ago today.
Seems like yesterday…seems like long ago.
My heart cries even as it laughs with joy.
What a bittersweet event a wedding is.
Here are a few photos taken by Red Stone studios.
They are a wonderful couple…I wish them nothing but the best!
As the door closes a window opens to a new day…
My daughter Kimberly has put a deposit on a
puppy. We will be picking the puppy up the day
after the wedding. So her Easter basket had this in it.