Angel Wings
I heard recently that the brother of someone in my art group passed away suddenly. An image formed in my mind immediately upon reading about it of angel wings on a purple background. Other images have popped in my head over the years and just as quickly popped back out …
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Photo Friday – Red
This week’s photo challenge was to shoot a photo with red as the dominant color. I was thinking about the challenge walking to work the next morning after reading the lesson and I realized that I had just gotten off a Red Line T train, walked past some lovely red …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 52
I can’t believe that I have now been posting these Turn Back Thursday journal quilt posts for an entire year. But, here we are, at the end of my journal quilting project. Like last week’s quilt, this one was made a little late because we were home with a newborn …
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2016 Projects – #BringItHome – Playroom
This week, I finally finished one of the items on my to do list to “finish” a room. All I needed to do was to hang pictures in my daughter’s playroom, which is now done. Here’s the Before picture, from the night we moved into the house: A year and …
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Photo Friday – Spring in the Public Garden
Okay, I blew off this week’s Photo Challenge assignment. This week we were to take a picture of a loved one. Not a hard assignment and I did take several cute photos of my daughter, but we got home at 10 pm and I just couldn’t bring myself to turn …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 51
The journal quilt for week 51 did not get made that week (or the next). As Week 51 of my project began, I was in the hospital having just delivered a baby. The timing had been perfect – our child was due the week after my journal quilt project was …
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Design Wall Monday – Master Carpenter’s Square
In 2009, I made drapes and shades for my bedroom. Now 7 years later, I am finally making the quilt and thanks to Mother’s Day and the ability to spend as much time in the sewing room as I pleased without feeling guilty about it, I made good progress on …
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Photo Friday – Dreamscapes
This week’s photo challenge used Photoshop to create a “dreamscape.” I spent many an hour eyeballs deep in Photoshop trying to get it to work and finally, after some great advice from some of my fellow students in the class, I landed on this: I have to be honest though, …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 50
Ah, the Tin Anniversary. This week in 2012, my DH and I celebrated our 10th anniversary, the tin anniversary, which is what inspired the periodic table journal quilt. My DH jokes though that it is actually the baby anniversary. We didn’t know it at the time because our daughter arrived …
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Crayon Challenge
I belong to a bee through the Rising Star Quilters Guild and we recently decided to give ourselves a challenge. We closed our eyes, drew a crayon from a large box, and were then to make a quilt inspired by that crayon. I have done this challenge twice now and I …
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