My gallery in the studio

I have a gallery set up in the studio.

Easy for my clients to pick out gifts for Holidays.

I think I have got everything in order inside and out.

We are ready for someone to look at our house.

I shudder at the thought of downsizing.

Yesterday was busy,

My grandson Brad helped for 5 hours.

Swept out my husband's garage and shop.

Hosed the front, washed windows

 and mulched around the garage.

The outside looks great now,

Thanks to our grandson's help.

Life is good for us.

Hot Hot and Hotter.

It feels more like August than June.

A perfect excuse to stay in the studio

and let the weeds grow in the heat.

We are going to fulfill something on our bucket list.

We rented a house on a lake for a month next year.

The kids and their kids can visit us.

Someone to take Grandpa fishing.

Something to look forward to next year.

I will take my sewing machine, camera and watercolors.

Sew, Paint and take lots of photos for

future art quilts.

I love the north wooods  having spent my

childhood going to this lake for 2 weeks

every summer. Taking our family there until I was 45.

Will be nice to get acquainted with the place again.

Yesterday 6 crows came and cleaned the

corn and sunflower seeds off of the driveway.

They also cleaned out most of a row of sweet

corn in the garden that my husband planted.

new procedure plant and cover with chicken wire.

The deer mowed off half of the tomatoes.

My husband put a fence around the garden yesterday.

The joys of the country.

I have been busy.

I haven't blogged  for awhile,

 Sorry - I had to take time out to clean my house and studio.

My daughter in law sent the info on my house to a Realtor.

We have had 12 years living at the special place.

But we need to downsize eventually.

Somehow squeeze 4000 sq feet into 1700 sq ft.

With a bonus room for a studio.

It is getting harder to keep up a large home and larger yard.

So if it happens it was meant to be.

If not we will live here in paradise longer.

 I dyed some background for my new project

but I ended up using my first choice.

The colors are the palette for my new quilt.

I am going to try for the Quilt Nationals.

If I doesn't work I will have 2 pieces for my show next May.

SO it is a win win.

I get a head start on May's show.

Or I hit the jackpot.

May as well aim high.

Summer brings a show of color.

Flowers keep blooming all season.

In March the ground is bare and brown.

Than it warms up and a riot of blooms

 pop out of the ground and delight us all summer.

I just love the magenta petunias with an edge of lime green.

They are my favorite new annual.

Have to have a few annuals for color.

Well a full day in the studio today.

A clean studio at that.

Water.

Water.

Reflections on water,

Art.

All favorite things of mine.

Went to Lafayette for the FibR meeting last night.

What a way to get recharged.

Everyone is so talented.

But different.

Love the energy I get from them,

Our new show opens on June 22.

At the Wells Center at TAF.

More details to follow.

We all bring something to show and tell.

Just like grade school.

Anita, Pat and I reported on our class at QSDS.

Lots of laughter.

Thinking of Empty Spools for my next venture .

March of 2013.

A good break from the winter.

Enough dreaming.

Looking forward to a full day in the Studio.

Wordless Wednesday

Cool bath on a hot day.

What a hot day yesterday.

We sat down for lunch and looked out the window

 we saw several sparrows taking a bath in the Koi pond.

What a refreshing idea.

Started picking out fabrics for my next art quilt

and could not find anything I liked for the back.

Got out the dyes and made 4  new over dyes,

in greens and blues.

Perfect for a water scene.

Now to get started.

Yesterday I added 805 to the backs of 7 yards of fabric.

I am ready to go this morning.

Love making water and tree scenes.

Have a great day everyone.



A day of ART

Missed out on blogging yesterday.

Sorry my sister gave me the Hunger Games books.

I sunk into the recliner and just now came up for air.

I am almost finished with book 2.

Today was the opening of the

Chesterton's Women's Club's annual show.

I got a third place ribbon and a check.

Now whether to spend it on fabric or paint.

I think I will interpret this small painting into a quilt.

It is called spring.

I had entered a larger painting and this small painting,

I thought the larger one would get a prize.

Not.

You never know.