Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts

Monday, February 22, 2016

Things that make me .....


I finished my word quilt this past weekend!!!

The blue fabric is hand dyed fabric in my stash 
and the background fabric is snow dyed fabric
 I created when we had snow last winter!

This winter I haven't been able to snow dye...



I played a lot with free motion quilting...


it's always easy to experiment on small projects.

The binding is some of the hand dyed fabric
 on which I had stenciled
with iridescent fabric paint... 


I am happy to have finished this word quilt
but it is a little more monochromatic than I am used to creating
so it may need some embellishing...
not sure yet.

This past week was 'winter break' in New York State schools.

Not really in need of a break from winter 
but Sugarbaby and I made our way down south to warmer and sunnier Florida



for a little R & R...


I always find plenty of inspiration in the little things...


flowers...



leaves...




raindrops...



seashells...


ocean waves...


French desserts...



and sunsets...


Feeling happy!

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Things that make me go hmmmm....

when I hear this song...


I remember some great times in the early 1990s...

times and things that make me go hmm...

and make me smile!!


But I have a lot to smile about these days....

 sunsets on the ocean....



bikini butt bar stools....



warm weather and aqua blue oceans...


feet in the ocean..



feet in the sand...


improving my running time...


and

a lovable pet, guinea pig


Vacationing,
college girl with a tonsillectomy,
boy with wisdom teeth extraction
has me a little behind in my reading....


I have read the "Getting Started" chapter
and am on to January!!!

Lots to smile about
 and
be happy about this year!!!!

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Now what???

So now I have all these photos of my travels!!!

What will I do with them? you ask...

I am not sure. 

When I take a photo
I am intrigued by an eclectic array of characteristics in my subjects.

There are the patterns I see...

















there are exciting colors or color combinations...













there is beautiful lettering or fonts...




there is the humor....




and there is the magnificent beauty of these subjects
that makes my heart jump...











All of this wonderful visual information 
is somehow mixed together in my brain 
and inspires me!!!

All of it will likely influence my art,
my creative pursuits
in some great way
some day
somehow.