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.
There isn't much fact to support the myth that the Pilgrims were introduced to popcorn by the Indians but since I have a frequent craving for this tasty snack I thought today might be a fun day, in light a particular new movie release, to enjoy some tips from ...
Just a quick post today. Jan is a fairly new quilter and chose to work with this panel making a baby quilt for a friend. I quilted around each of the patch blocks in the inner border and outline quilted each of the letters, stars, and hearts. Ditching the blue ...
A project started at the beginning of the month as part of a workshop with
Tangie Baxter at Scrapbook Graphics
, the Count Your Blessings art journal is just one of the many activities contained in her
Studio Box Workshop 3
. The kit has everything you need for a variety of ...
MISTLETOE MAGIC ALERT! Another teaser coming your way. This is a block kit all cut and ready for piecing together. I used the Tri-Recs ruler set, the Omni 96, and a regular straight edge ruler.
Since I'm making my quilt with scrappy blocks I'm keeping the background consistent ...
It's a catching-up post in the art journaling world today. You've heard me mention in a previous post my on-line workshop with Julie Fei Fan Balzer -
30 DAYS IN YOUR JOURNAL.
What a wonderful way to explore and experiment with lots of different techniques. You can see more ...
They're back ... tis the season of the pomegranate once again for another year. I saw them in the grocery while shopping this afternoon and was so tempted to get one. I remember picking the seeds out of the peel and juice running down my chin as I feasted on ...
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How can that be? How can 1 dark square in a square plus 1 light square in a square equal a star?
But look, when you put them all together alternating light and dark, stand back and look again and you'll start to see stars popping out all over ...
30 DAYS 7-12: finished spread
Still going in my
art journaling class
; week two is complete. I learned last week how much I really like working with collage using images and texture/color from magazine fodder. I also knew when I started this spread that I wanted to play with ...
It's hard to believe that just two weeks ago we had 24" of snow on the ground and still had leaves on the trees. The neighborhood kids were building snow jack-o-lanterns rather than snowmen. How funny to see the leaves come down on snow drifts. I wonder what is ...
The best laid plans seem to go awry but enough already. Friends are calling. Emails come in daily. Facebook messages and notifications. Yes, I'm still here. Yes, I do believe life is beginning to slowly return to normal. Yes, the distractions are gradually beginning to dissipate. I say, ENOUGH ...
I love a treat. I hadn't really thought of my day as a treat but that is what it turned out to be. My day started as a day of running errands. The plan: just take care of everything that needs to be done all at once and then ...
