What's Shaking?!!!!

Hey everyone...

what's shaking?!!!

Apparently, my hometown!!!

I just saw a tweet from my flickr friend, Sarah, saying that there was an earthquake there!

There have been others.

When I was still living at home (maaaaany moons ago),


(groovy, man!)


we had an earthquake in the early morning

and I thought my little brother was jumping on his bed!!!!

(I couldn't find one of him jumping in bed so this will  have to do,
apparently he didn't like loud noises LOL!)


Here...
we aren't shaking, just sweating slightly as the temperatures and humidity rise

but today is.....

so enough gabbing all ready!!!

The exercises in the second last chapter of the book focus on embellishing.

 I don't have a large inventory of embellishments
but I do have some beads...

Staying with my cactus theme, 

I created a free pieced sun beaming down on a free pieced cactus

(I suppose the Arizona sun is probably scorching the cacti these early summer days)...

and I embellished this spiny, prickly cactus with a variety of beads that I had in my stash..

and I found these fun, square beads to create rays of sun...

The fabrics are from my most recent stash of hand dyes.

The last chapter of the book is 'finishing touches' which I will not likely touch on in a blog post.

I have too many other projects I want to try out!!!!

I have these books from the library...

and this one at home...

Stay tuned...

In the meantime, I plan to kick off my shoes for a while and enjoy the first few days of summer!