Tiny (?) changes....

Hoping I haven't bit off too much more than I can chew.....

My word of the year top is done with hand dyed and ice dyed fabrics...

but feeling a little under the weather has messed with my desire to quilt this week.

In the meantime...

I am participating in a 7 day nature photography challenge

 over on Facebook...

and so I have been posting mostly old photos....

that I tinkered with using iPhone apps...

  and Photoshop Elements,...

while I train for a new job....

study for an old job....

keep on top of my Happiness Project....

find time for exercise and meditation...

enjoy some company....

and

knit in my spare time (did I say spare time?!!!)

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

-Leo Tolstoy

A Riddle....

What do you get when you have someone who is...

 (messy)

and...

 (moody... and how!?)

and...

 (sassy... or just plain rude sometimes!)

 (sneaky...yup)

and 

 (lazy)

and can be...

 (cuddly... sometimes)

and loves a good...

(selfy=selfie, artistic license you know!)

who has you going ...

every which way...

or going in circles...

who might be found using a hair dryer...

or a laptop...

You guessed it!!!

A...

Someone once said...

And so, 

the parent...

"Life II: I Have A Teenager!"

is finally finished!

This is the back of the piece...

with my little "angel"

at a time when she wore fairy wings..

Ah those were the days!

These days, I sometimes think she is wearing horns!!!

I actually have three kids, 

2 who are still "teens" but it is the youngest who has

clearly been the source of aggravation and amusement

and has served as fodder for my art. 

The final stitches went into the sleeve early this morning

and it will be packed off and shipped 

with the other art quilts from our fiber art group, 

Adirondack Regional Textile Artists Alliance

(also on Facebook)

...headed to Savannah Georgia

to be exhibited

at several Mancuso Quilt Shows. 

Fleeting Friday....

well there is Wordless Wednesday, 

why not Fleeting Friday?!

It was that or Terse TGIF!

So in brief....

I have been busy creating

 and 

finished quilting, binding and embellishing my word of the year...

Have a great weekend!

I'm back in the saddle again!

I have actually blogged a few times already this year and it doesn't feel so foreign any more!

Winter in upstate NY never ceases to surprise us...

In the past week, we have had frigid temperatures

mixed in some warmer temperatures and pouring rain...

and a wee bit of snow too!

Today, we saw the sun and it melted more snow!

So I am glad that I did my snow dyeing when I did 

and the results were spectacular, if I say so myself!!!

I am not sure what I will do with these fabrics...

Mr. U would like to frame one of them!

Besides the dyeing,

I managed to complete my week 2 Life Book activity...

hosted by Micki Wilde.

So far, I am keeping up (as one of my big fears is falling behind!)

And finally,

our Tangled Textiles blog group has finished yet another themed challenge!

After months and months of deliberation over the theme "music"

I created this quiltie...

I am thinking that I might add some embellishments in the form of beading

and I started on the "i"

but I will have to pour over my beading books and 

search online for some ideas!!!

YEEEHAW!!!

I am off to play.... giddy-up!