Friday Night



So here is what I am working on recently. I have had a couple client quilts on which are intense custom. I am only showing a section on the back since my customer hasn't seen it yet. They are beautiful quilts and they are taking quite a bit of time. All my background work and borders are done and just the details are left. But I needed to take it off the machine tonight.....

Yesterday afternoon I took a 'field trip' with three of my friends to a wonderful little quilt shop about an hour away. We had a fabulous time. I was fascinated with the little humpety bumpety quilt I saw in a book. It wouldn't let me quit thinking about it. I finally sketched it up so it would leave me alone. And I might even one day make it into a little quilt! That is one thing I love about art journaling everyday. I can throw thoughts and colors on a page, try a new technique, experiment with new products, or repeat a motif that haunts me! Anything goes and I can spend as long or as little as I have time for!

And lastly on tonight's agenda....and the reason I took my client quilts off the machine... My sweet Laura is home tonight (well, so is my baby boy but he is not in here sewing with us!) and she is working hard on the longarm. She is at the age where many of her friends are starting families. Her specialty is 'I Spy' quilts and she needs three next week! Actually she is in town because we have a wedding shower in the morning for Emily, my son's lovely fiancee'.

Life is good.

Keep on being Brave dear hearts...

A New Beginning

 Back in early March I was in an airplane, flying across the country, looking out over the mountains and the desert, and this thought came into my head...'its about time I start an art blog'. I was Shocked! I'm not sure where that idea popped from since I'm not too great expressing myself in words. But I have tossed around the idea for three months now and here I am. I have so much inside me that wants to get out! Creativity is a daily activity. I have always sketched and drawn and dabbled in all sorts of sewing, quilting, scrapbooking, crafts and folk art. In December 2011 I came across a publication from Cloth Paper Scissors called Pages and I have never looked back. I loved the article by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer on art journaling everyday. Every day is an art day!

I don't know what direction this blog will take me but here I go. I want to share what I am working on, show what inspires me, and just try to express myself. There is just something about creating.. the act of creating... the process in creating... the beauty of the creation...that is so liberating and healing.

Here's to Bravery. {wink, wink}