The Friday Archives

Loobylu - who is one of my favorite artists and bloggers around has started the Friday Archives. I'm not sure how many of you have ever checked out my gallery, and soon it's going to undergo some major reworking.....BUT I put it up so I could look at what I've done in the past and see where I'm going.

The Friday Archives is also a good spot for this! :) And for a good insight into what a "heavy" child I was, you can see two of my early early drawings. In looking back, I don't think of myself as being kind of intense, but I guess drawing pictures of cute things was not really in my repertoire even back then.

I'm assuming we were probably studying this at the time, but I'm kind of amazed at my interest in drawing a plane. Not sure you can see from this photo, but there are skulls hidden in the clouds....just what you imagine a high school kid thinking about, eh? :)

Then this illustration was to illustrate famine in South Africa at the time. I believe the song "We are the World" was popular at the time and the profits were going to combat famine in Ethiopia, so obviously the subject was fairly common on teenagers minds.

Labels: art, drawing, Friday Archives

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Crazy quilting group today - 2 posts in a day!

OK, so, as mentioned in my last post, I had my Crazy quilting Groups class today and learned how to do these spectacular flowers! There are more to come, but this was the first one...fairly easy and pretty spiffy results, eh? It's done with peyote stitch.

Then, my round robin block finally came home. This was worked on by my crazy quilting group and I must say it took them out of their comfort zone into something wonderful. Didn't it turn out fantastic?

And last, but definitely not least, my mother in law whipped up this cute outfit for Matey Moo's teddy bear:

Doesn't Teddy look Dapper? Well, we're going to be laying flagstone tomorrow, so Happy Mother's Day to all the other Mommy's out there! I guess it's appropriate to be laboring on a day I received because I went through labor! (ha, ha!)

Labels: beading, Crazy quilt, family life, quilting

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But I digress!

I had a wonderful class at Crazy quilting today (pictures to come soon) but I had to put this up:

A very sweet flickr fan (who shall remain nameless until he says he likes the picture I did for him) admired my self portrait. If you've never read my blog before you'll know I'm a MAJOR Andy Warhol fan. So, from my scan of a Gerbera Daisy, I made the above pictures. I love it. I wonder if my daughter would love it in her room?

Labels: art, photography, Pop Art

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A bit of inspiration cool-ness

Check this out:

Isn't that completely cool? Done by Jared Brown - these are just fantastic and for sale! You can get to the pieces from his flickr badge on the side of his blog. After perusing his blog, I'm not sure of his motivation, but his art and embroideries are definately interesting, original and fun.

I'm off to try to finish our patio...which means lugging a ton of flagstone and pulling weeds. We started our patio when my darling Matey Moo turned 2 (his 6th birthday is around the corner) and I'm flabbergasted it's not done. But this weekend we're on our way to finishing it....if it kills me...and it might.

Oh, and I still haven't gone to purchase my last bit of lace. I'll update with how I finish that. I promise! :)

Labels: family life, inspiration

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So close....and yet, not done

I am SO close to finished with the pillow:

I think it looks great! (and I don't often say that about my stuff) but the lace I'm using for the edge is TOO SHORT! ARRRRGH!
So, I guess I'll run up and get a length and piece it in. It's WAY too expensive of lace to replace it all with a new strand....and I think I can seam it together so it's not TOO obvious. Wish me luck.
However, it will be a day or so before I get up to Joanne's to buy new. Sigh.
Always something, eh?

Labels: beading, Crazy quilt, embroidery, lace, silk ribbon embroidery

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Busy playing!

This is the latest in my real flower scans - the most notable being the one in my header that I use all the time. I'm a big gerbera daisy fan and so I did a scan of this one. I'm playing with a lot of macro cropping. Very fun and very orange!

Other than that, I've been really busy playing the last two days. I have a new Widget Inc. podcasting project I'm working. It really only relates to Denver folks, but I'll let you know when that happens! I do love my professional life these days - it really is like playing more than hard work. Most of the time.

Then I'm still trying to finish the baptism pillow - that's today's project!

Yesterday I went to the Rocky Mountain Bead Society's bead show and it was fabulous!

Look at all my spiffy loot! The smallest, yet most notable is the purchase of delica beads! I've been wanting to get into them for a LONG time! So, we'll see, maybe I'll do something wonderful with them soon!

Last night we went over to a friend's house for a yummy dinner and the kids had a blast! What do you think of my pink power ranger? Fierce, isn't she? (and yes, that was a Project Runway reference!)

Labels: beading, Denver, digital scanner art, family life

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A little trash to fill in! :)

My friend Diana and I went craft shop-hopping today (woo hoo) and so I will have that pillow done really soon!
However, just to fill in, I ran across this - I've seen some dogs he does too...very cool!

Labels: art, inspiration, ponderances

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More WHITE! :)

There's good "white" and there's bad white! :) I've made more progress on the baptism block

I'm really quite thrilled with how it's turning out and I plan on going through and anchoring it all a bit more for an 8 year old girl! :) I can't wait to finish it off in a pillow tho...I think it's going to look great.

However, speaking of not looking great, the day after our 80 degree weather, we had this. It's all gone now (was gone by noon) but I'm officially on strike. It HAS to quit snowing!
Happy Spring everyone!