Hearts

Heres some hearts I made for a class hopefully at the Chicago Quilt Show in April-maybe Art and Soul Portland?
Working on treetoppers for somerset-Im thinking of calling that class Extreme Makeover

The Letter Arts Piece

Exciting and Wonderful News

Well for the second year in a row I'll be in Letter Arts Review Annual-I almost didnt enter because I really didnt have anything new or ( I thought thrilling) to send but I did at the last minute and voila! It is on fabric of course and I will post a pic when i get a photo of it
I SO needed some good news! Its been a tough week-I guess the lesson of this week is that when things go well you really appreciate them more. But it is still hard to go through the hard days.
I got my work in for my book and actually met the first deadline-but the idea I had about vellum overlays for my exemplars jsut got nixed so its back to the drawing board-
I got a wonderful artist to represent in the book-his name is Damon Robinson and he designs for Praise the Lowered-check out his site-Im going to try to post his work here

Credit for this art

this beautiful monogram was done by Xandra Zamora-must credit here!check out her website www.xyzink.com
Oh and Im also teaching in St. Louis the end of September!Yay!

My Concert master Jeff!

Tonight was my sons concert-wow! They played so well-it sounded like a pro symphony. I wish that Jeff stays with the violin but perhaps now its become uncool to be a violinist!. I talked to Kathy Petersen and I will be coming to Olympia WA before ArtFiber Fest to teach! The 15th of October! I will also be at Susie Tracy's Art n Soul shop on the Sundaythe day before. More in fo to follow on both gigs!! Im so excited-as I'll get to see Kristin and Ria between stops!! Heres some more art from the book!Tomorrow s my deadline-am I done? nope!

more on my weekend

here s some pictures from my trip to Ojai and Santa Barbara. We discovered an art truck, and walked around the town while the sun set. Heres a beautiful sunset above the mission deal in the middle of town. We took the scenic route to Santa barbara every time and it wound around Lake Casitas that was filled with tourists!!It was a wonderful drive-the low clouds hanging below the mountains. Another picture from the Madonnari. I kind of miss it-I think I'll try to do it next year-any madonnari team members still out there? Back to work on my book-my second reprieve is Wednesday but I must get the art in by tomorrow-uh oh!!

OJAI!

Just returned from Santa Barbara and Ojai-a new discovery for me. This has been a really trying day-alot going on-i will try to get some images on here of the beautiful places I discovered with my best friend

Art from the book!

OK-sneak preview here
below is denis browns work for the book and heres One of Xandras beautiful invites!

Book News! and off to Santa Barbara for a small trip!

yes-Im really writing-Im a writer-ha that sounds so funny! I have pretty much finished the first two chapters-and look at the line up for the contributors!!
Peter Thornton
Denis Brown.
Stephen Rapp,
Xandra Zamora
and Linda Hirsh!!
It is so incredible that they all agreed-Its going to be so exciting to see this all come together. I wont be at Island Magic and that may be jsut as well as I really need to make this perfect-Its crazy to think that what I write will be seen by so many-I was doing the script exemplar today freaking out that it wasnt perfect!-oh well! Ive Got to let that go!! Im not perfect and Ive got to make this book for everyone-warts and all!

Back From Virginia!

Hey-Im going to post some pictures from my trip on Flickr and try to give a link-I had alot of fun-met so many wonderful people at vendor night-so many kind words-It makes me remember why I do this-I get to meet so many great artists and watch them work and interpret my ideas! Starting really working on the book! Xandra Zamora aand Stephen Rapp have agreed to be in it! yay!