Happy Thanksgiving!

Here are a few holiday things around my house.

Pumpkins on the porch.
We will take out the seeds and roast them.

...tea towel


Flag in the front yard.



Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

manic monday

No art today...

...no art this week.

Lots of cleaning and baking.

Family coming for Thanksgiving!

Have an artful week for me.

weekend update

...quilt update...

I worked on this sucker for five hours yesterday.

It neatly covers the top of my table...

...all 1000 sets

That is 1000 sets of four squares.

So there is 4000 squares of fabric on my table, ready to be put together. And I am ready to start sewing them up. I didn't get to all the bins of fabric yet but I have to stop and get going on this. I noticed a few duplicates but after a while I couldn't remember them all.

That's it.

Have an artful weekend!

good news

Doing the happy dance today...while I can....before I get another painful shot in my still bruised foot from two weeks ago...ugh! BUT...Art Quilting Studio magazine has published a couple pieces of my cloth art.

They put Danita's cute Frida on the cover.

I love her work.

I entered the "What's in your fridge?" challenge.

If it's summer there is always a watermelon in my fridge.

I knew in advance that this was going to be in there...

...but....

As I was having my coffee this morning I was reading thru the rest of the magazine and I found this on page 130. Here is another piece in the Patchworks section. Total surprise.

The bee and the buckle inchies were from a swap and I forgot to give credit to my inchie swap friends...oops...sorry. It was an oversight...but don't they look great on there.

Busy day today...

...dreaded shot at 3:45...

...have all day to (dread) look forward to it.

Hope you are having a dread free-shot free day!

random this and that

Playing with stamps...

Stampotique has some new stamps and I love that they are heads. They are cousins to the other stamps I have designed by Daniel Torrente. I gussied up this girl with a crown and funny glasses.

These are the vintage earrings I purchased at the Girlie show a couple weekends ago, from my favorite vendor...Skip to my Lou. These are made from rosaries. And the finishing touch...she always attaches her jewerly to an old photograph.

Tomorrow I will show you where this little gem has shown up...

Hope your Tuesday is going well.

new junque

Happy Monday. This week has barely started and I will be glad when it's over. Doctor appointment today, dental tomorrow and another doctor on Wednesday, and then my car also goes back for another recall.


Last week whilst rummaging through my many stacks of fabric, I managed to add this little item to my junque journal collection. I taught my class last Thursday and wanted to add something new. It is made of those pesky postcard thingy's that always fall out of the magazines. The front and back covers are made from cardboard.

...closeup..

I glued 4 or 5 of the cards together to give the page some strength.

I stamped this image onto a piece of soft interfacing then sewed it onto the page. I really like the look and feel of it.

I used my newest tool...the corner rounder.

...it's made by the Crop-o-dile people...
It gives you the choice of a quarted inch or half inch corner.

And like the crop...it's so easy to use.

I guess that's my plug for the day.

Have a great day!

final fabric frenzy

She who dies with the most fabric wins!

I have a "shewhodi" card at Oklahoma Quiltworks. When you buy fabric, they stamp your card and you get free stuff when your card is filled. Actually most quilt shops have these cards and I need a filing system in my wallet to keep them all in order.

These cool prints came in the mail this week.

Click on the photo to enlarge and see details.

I was leaving the quilt shop yesterday...empty handed...

...until this pattern reached out and grabbed me.

The green is more lime green but for some reason (lighting) it appears to look muddy.

...then I had to add the sister prints.

That's it.

No more new fabric ...

...until next year.

Can I do it?

Sure gonna try!

This is the black/white/purple wall hanging from yesterday.

back and label

...no artful weekend for me...I am cleaning up the fabric mess I created this week.