Photo Friday – Bristol
This photo wasn’t from the Photo Challenge this week. (That one was a Do Over and I sent the composite from Lake Winnepesauke that I already posted here.) Instead, I am posting my favorite photo from a trip I took last week to England. (That explains the lack of blogging …
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Photo Friday – Rainbow Cake
This is a strange picture for Photo Friday, I realize, but this week’s Ricky Tims’ Photo Challenge photo was of my daughter and I have a “no kid pics on the Internet” rule. Instead, I am sharing a picture of her birthday cake. She asked for a “rainbow cake with …
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#TBT – Launching My New Life
A year ago today I posted here about “Launching My New Life” and finally pursuing quilting as a profession. I thought I would use this Throwback Thursday post to give an update on that. I am happy to report that I am still on this path. I didn’t quit yet …
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Books Now Available – Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library
It’s finished! “Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library,” a children’s story written by my sister and illustrated by me with individual pictorial quilts for each two-page spread, is now available in hardcover on Lulu.com.
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Photo Friday – Stuck in Place
This week’s assignment: stand in one spot for an hour taking pictures. You can see my spot in the photo in the top left of this montage – the edge of my deck. The best of the photos I took are the remaining ones. Nothing worth framing, but not a …
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#TBT – Colnago, 2008
In honor of Father’s Day this week, I’m sharing a small art quilt I made for my husband in 2008, as a “Creative Play” project. It sat finished in my “UFO” drawer for years, but I am happy to say that it’s been hanging in his bike room now for …
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Design Wall (Definitely Not Monday) – Arabesque #4
I have been postponing this post, trying to get the top to “Arabesque #4” finished and now I finally have. From this photo, you can’t see all of the pleats that are on the inside corners of the green crosses; I finally got them right on the last set of …
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Photo Friday – Panning
I was not expecting to like my submission to this week’s photo challenge. The assignment was to either get a panning shot of something moving against a blurred background (I was tempted to try and capture my daughter whizzing by on her pink scooter.) or to move the camera to …
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Announcing…
The first version of this blog when I started it in 2007, was named “Creative Play” because without really having a concrete strategy, I was using the blog as a way to explore my own creativity and to figure out how to keep my creativity well full. I have since …
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2016 Projects – #APQResolution – May
I finished another UFO for the American Patchwork and Quilting 2016 UFO Challenge. It really surprises me what projects I have in my drawer. Most of them are not quilts to finish. Those I seem to get done. This month’s project was to dye a white tee shirt that had …
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