Due to the normal Holiday business, followed by a website crash and life in general, I have not gotten here to update in a while…. (nothing new). Now that the year is nearly 3 weeks old, I am getting some new photos out of the camera and into the computer. Here are a few random photos and thoughts from the past month or so….
First Snow of 2011
This has been an odd winter…. the photo above shows our first “real” snow of the season… on January 12…. Up until now, we barely had a dusting of white, but the weather has been brutally cold and windy.
5 Generations
I was lucky to have much of my family together this year at Christmas. This is one of my best gifts…. A 5 generation photo with my Gram, Dad, Me, Aaron, Andrue and Jenna. It’s rare to get this group together at one time, and getting a photo is even trickier to do.
Cleaned Glass on Shelves
I just had to add this photo…. I love to collect glass, and this is just one of 3 walls in the livingroom that has a glass display. After I got the wreath orders done, it was time to catch up on house cleaning. The glass inevitably collects dust, dead bugs, and cobwebs…. everything has to come off the shelves, is washed and returned to the cleaned shelves. I even replaced the Christmas lights that are strung along the shelves. The old lights had been there at least 10 years. The little quilts hanging below the shelves are a set of journal quilts that went to the Quilt Festival in Houston back in 2005.
My Tree 2010
My little tree lives here in the corner all year…. It gets a yearly dusting, polishing and this year, it got new pink bows to coordinate with the wreaths I decorated for our front door and the bus stop at the end of the driveway. A couple of Jenna’s favorite buddies live on the back of the couch.
Christmas Dominoes
Back to the Christmas gathering…. Zack was home from Texas, and is here holding Jenna while playing a game of dominoes with Gram and a couple of his cousins. Jenna is giving one of her “cheese” poses….
New Ironing Board Cover
Ahhhh, back home again, I started cleaning and attempting to organize my studio. Here is my ironing board in a very rare state… I got it cleared off and decided it was time to replace the cover. It has been a little while since I did the new cover, and so far I have been able to keep it gunk free. It seems that I always end up fusing something to a new cover…. hopefully I will be more careful with this one…. at least for a while. The rest of the studio is still in a state of being sorted out and organized. I definitely need to get the organizing part done so I can find what I need when I want it.
Collage ATC's with Flower Photos Added
I have done a couple of art related projects so far this year… The above photo shows a group of art cards being worked on for an exchange. I glued paper from junk mail and my new “bleeding” tissue paper onto a not so great fabric. The result was a bunch of bright, spring-like cards. Not much sewing has happened yet, but I hope to be changing that soon.
If all goes as planned… I will be trying to keep up much better with my art and blogging this year.
I am a former textile artist and new pattern designer with a degree in horticulture, wishing to share my love of nature, flowers and gardens with everyone through my photos, sunprinted fabrics, and now pattern designs. Chronic Lyme Disease has caused major changes to the direction my life. I have to limit the amount of time spent digging in my gardens, and quilting has become more difficult. I discovered pattern design as a way to get art back into my life. I now use my gardens and photos to inspire designs that can be used on fabrics and print on demand items.
