Ahead of Schedule

 This is my goal for this summer.

To make quilts that have this dreamy quality.

I always end up hard edged.

Maybe QSDS 2012 will loosen me up.

I am ahead of schedule for my entries due May 7th.

One will go to Tommy Fitzsimmons Wednesday.

The AQS 2012 in Grand Rapids entry is ready too.

I will deliver my Chair and painting to Lafayette

on Thursday for the Chair-i-ty event.

Than since it is going to get hot I will dye.

Got a bolt of Kona PDF.

Maybe I can turn out a piece of fabric

good enough to enter in the cloth contest at

QSDS.

I always try to do the hardest things I can

If you don't try you don't succeed.



Mom and Me

I visited with my Mom yesterday.

We are blessed with an assisted living facility that

is like a fancy hotel and no bad smells.

This is a photo taken a few years ago.

She suffers from dementia.

We sit and watch TV together.

I bring her fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.

She falls asleep often.

But she still recognizes me.

She repeats herself a lot.

But we will all get there someday.

I am glad she is close.

Makes me wonder what old age has in store for us.

She will be 92 this year.

Toucan

Almost done with the Toucan painting.

One more day should do it.

Wish the weather would get warmer.

I have 3 Japanese maples that have most

of their leaves froze off.

I hope they recover.

The butterfly bushes were badly nipped too.

Oh well we take it as it comes.

Have a great day and stay warm.



A Chair-et-y event.

My painting of my chair in progress.

The idea is to decorate a chair and than

paint a picture of it.

My fabric has little Toucans on it so

I am painting a Toucan sitting on back of my chair.

The Jasper Red gesso background makes the

colors pop in hth painting.

These will be auctions off to raise money for the

Art Museum.

Neat Idea

Now to finish by next Thursday.



Bouquet on Quilt.

Took a walk this morning and gathered some flowers.

Our wedding flowers were lily of the valley and lilacs.

Just what I found in the garden.

along with some scillia and columbine.

May 8th is the big day 50 years.

The flowers are setting on a quilt I started.

I had a stack of 5 inch squares to use up.

I am alternating them with white squares

 and separating the rows with a white strip.

A nice clean look.

I went modern without trying.

I am making extra large throws for everyone

in the family for Christmas.

I will back them with flannel.

A light cozy throw.

This combination looks very girlish.

Worked on my Toucan painting.

Looking fairly good.

I will show you tomorrow.



How I used to look.

Ya right maybe when I was 16.

This is one of my pottery pieces.

I wish I had kept it but she flew off to California.

My computer has been driving me crazy the past 4 days.

Nothing would work.

I Tried to send something to Chair-e-ty and

after 5 tries I finally sent it in reply to her E-mail.

I just sat down to check the mail and FB

and magically everything is back to normal.

Thank goodness.

I was ready to change E-mail servers.

When I wanted to blog

everything was wonky.

Maybe it will stay good for awhile.



Posts along the way

My blogger site is wonky.

I am having trouble getting it to post.

Maybe it will magically straighten itself out.

Been a nice quiet week-end.

Lots of rest, reading and no cooking.

After 49 + years I am tired of cooking.

Today I will be in the studio finishing 2 projects.

Chair-e-ty and my portion of a quilt for Houston.

Have a great day

I am off to the studio.