This is where you find me exploring a variety of creative adventures mostly about but not limited to quilting. I'm a firm believer that one increases their creativity by being open to and playing with a variety of cretative endeavors ... at least that my excuse for today. Enjoy your sourjourn through my studio playroom. May you find encouragement and inspiration, and on occassion, a little pin-prick that may be thought-provoking or spark your imagination. Thank you for stopping by.
Blow blow thou winter wind ... not quite as chilly as a week ago ... only a wind chill of -2 this morning. Snippets and random observations regarding the season ...
Icicles dangle all sparkly and sharp ... never heard of a roof rake before .. even tho I cursed during the rainy season the ...
The binding is finished ... almost ready to mark this one off the UFO list. Two things are left to do first:
add the little bee buttons ...or ... use the patch as shown in the photo. (Which do you think I should use?)
I'd like to add some journaling in ...
Not much time for blogging this week as you can see. Sandwiched in between snow storms and shoveling duties, I was pretty focused on the projects in the studio.
I started the week with babysitting joy in Boston, but when I came back to the Berkshires I was ready to ...
Having grown up on the Oregon coast and Mike in the Treasure Valley on the eastern border of Oregon between Oregon and Idaho, we both missed our views of the night sky. The city lights glow from Portland and surrounding areas pretty much dim our night-time stars into faded memories ...
A photo thought to share: ... a curiosity found in a snowbank.
For today: January 16, 2011 ...
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Treating myself to some time for reflection, time to catch up with favorites in the blog world, and time to discover new blogs ...
After a quick trip into Boston to help out with babysitting duties - I know, it's rough being a grandma, but someone's gotta do it :) - I was ready for some chillaxin' time when I got back home. Eryn has been after me to watch Alice in Wonderland, and this ...
Not one, but two qults off the longarm quilting machine this week. The first one was pieced by my good friend Juanita. She made this comfy cozy flannel quilt for her grandsons. I used an edge-to-edge pattern that you can find in the Mountaintop Studio Store called 1375 Loopy Stars ...
How could I wake up to more than two feet of snow and not write about it?
The first order of business ... Miso needs to go out. But I can't get the door open until I shovel the snow out of the way ... kind of like Little House on ...
So ... at the risk of opening a potentially touchy subject - How do your mornings go?
I'm one of those people who doesn't have time for sleep. There are just too many exciting things happening out there in the world and I don't want to miss out on ...
A photo thought to share: ... love the way the snow clumps on the tree branches
For today: January 9, 2011 ...
Treating myself to some time for reflection, time to catch up with favorites in the blog world, and time to discover new blogs ... and I found The Simple Woman's ...
AJC 1: verb: PROCESS ...
When I received our word prompt for this week I felt pretty stumped so I just let the concept percoluate in the back of my mind and went on with other tasks that needed to be done. I finished my journal cover and my letter to ...
I'm embarking on the journey for a second year in a row. You can learn all about the Art Journal Caravan at Scrapbook Graphics. Every week we travelers get prompts to serve as sparks to get our brains thinking about how we'd like to interpret the concept visually ...
... where we left off last fall ...
I thought long and hard about how best catch up with everyone and to get going again and photo collages, in the end, seemed like the most fun way to reconnect. Guess it the proverbial "picture worth 1000 words" kind of situation. And we ...
