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.
It's just a regular day again here in the studio. Everything starts off with nice and relaxed pace. Do the stretching routine. Ahhhh, that feels good too many tight muscles here to skip this daily habit. Got to coffee going and blueberries with yogurt sounds like a good healthy ...
Are you pinner or a stapler or a tacker or a stitcher?
The question on the table this morning is ... the topic at hand is ... "how you attach your quilt back to the leaders." The innovation of quilters never ceases to amaze me. If there is a different way to ...
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. ~Ernestine Ulmer
... be bold ...
... be brave ...
... make and share the music of your soul ...
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Time for more spoiling ... Just for you ... three new patterns added to the FREE PATTERNS library.
To get today's Freebies just right click on the links above the images below in this post. But, if you've not gotten all the freebies yet you need to find your way ...
I'm always looking for ...
a quick hostess gift
a quick gift for the guest room
an easy sew project for beginning sewers
fun quick and easy gifts for a holiday basket
new ways to add seasonal decor items to make my home more cozy
a project the recycles or ...
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. Miles Davis
... be bold ...
... be brave ...
... make and share the music of your soul ...
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Enjoy one more day of deeply marked down savings. It's easy to do ...
browse the catalog and add patterns you like to your cart
choose "view my cart" and review your order
scroll down ... coupon code "celebrate_quilting" should be entered automatically
proceed to checkout
When your payment clears you ...
I hope you're able to celebrate this day set aside just for us quilters working on your favorite projects, finishing up a UFO (an unfinished quilted object) shop-hopping with friends, taking a quilt class, or even participating in one of the many on-line National Quilting Day mystery quilt events ...
To THRIVE means to flourish, to grow, to make progress ...
... to live large and be awesome.
To SURVIVE means to push on in the face of hardship or adversity ...
I choose to move beyond mere survival.
I choose ... THRIVAL
... be bold ...
... be brave ...
... make and share the music of your ...
On this day of traditional blessings I'm am truly grateful for the many blessing is my life.
I am grateful for:
health and the where-with-all physically to be able to maintain my healthy state
food (good food) on my table and a nice warm comfy bed to catch my ...
Yes, look very closely at the bottom of the photo and you will see it ... that's right, I did an inside trim. If you've been in any of my classes you'll hear me give my reasoning ... the biggest reason I can think of learning how to do ...
Every day for the last two weeks promptly at 1:00 I have been at my desk phone turned off and been treated to the most amazing and inspiring interviews with host Jennifer Lee as I participated in a video summit for right-brained business planners. You may have even seen ...
Ooooooh ... the weather outside is ... melting ...
Now that song will be stuck in your head all day, won't it. But we can't deny it ... it's melting and thawing and melting and thawing and every day there is a little less snow and the icicles are a little ...
Just for you ... three new patterns added to the FREE PATTERNS library. All you have to do is click your way over to the FREE PATTERNS pages. Left Click on each image to get to the individual product page and look for the words "Click HERE." REMEMBER, don't choose ...
It doesn't seem to matter how much experience you have; it doesn't seem to matter how much you know; it doesn't seem to matter how confident you are. When it comes to learning, presenting, teaching and sharing your passion, meeting new people, and experimenting with new techniques ...
It wasn't in the plan. It wasn't on the map. Scheduled for release next week but I just couldn't wait. I got so excited about the possibilities of this collection. I couldn't stop rearranging pieces and parts to make up a new wholecloth design.
What makes ...
It's time for the piecing phase of my business to kick in now and I get to start with creating the quilt pattern I designed for a collection from the Northcott fabric company designed by Sunshine Cottage called Stonehenge Skins.
This yummy bundle of fabrics starts with the gorgeous ...
What a great conference we had in Atlanta during this last week. Thank you's and kudos coming your way to all the wonderful students and teachers in attendance at our Southeast Statler Retreat. An amazing wealth of knowledge and inspiration was enjoyed and shared all around, friendships made and ...
In all the hustle bustle of the world, the chaotic noise. motion and commotion that surrounds us in our dailey lives, the sheer sensory overload that bombards us to the very core of our souls, it is very easy to forget to listen to that little creative voice inside of ...
One of the ideas cooking in the back of my mind is to develop a art journaling project centered around the theme of houses, homes, the comfort of home, castle in the sky ... you know ... It just takes a heap of living to make a house a home. I just ...
It's almost time to jump on the plane and head down to Geogia for our Southeast Statler Retreat. I'm so excited to be going and mingling with all the great people who will be there. So much to learn from each other. I love going to retreats and ...
