Good Morning!

How's your Coffee (Tea) this morning?

Thursday evening I went to our doll club meeting.  JoAnn Bulman showed us how to make a  wonderful vintage paper doll, dressed in fabric...I started mine, but there wasn't enough time at the meeting for me to finish her.  I had hoped to finish her on Friday (yesterday).

However, yesterday was crazy for me (I had to go to town, my car broke down, I ran to mechanics, even had to do a bit of shopping while leaving the car running and locked..SHEESH), and I realized that as time is growing short before I return to work and school, it's bound to get a bit crazier.  So today, I will sit still....  which means I will try and make lists and figure out what else I need to do, like servicing the pellet stove, arranging propane delivery, sorting out classes, making calls for volunteers for Folk Art Fest, yell at my web site people (they apparently didn't renew my site) and, and, and......  Then as the sun sets and the world grows quiet, I will attempt to finish up Thursday's project.

Tomorrow is Sunday, and I visit Mom......  hopefully, I will post a finished vintage paper doll, dressed in fabric then.....

So until then, you have a wonderful day, keep the faith, and enjoy your Coffee (Tea).  Stay well!

Just a quick note today....

New project for these craft fairs I need inventory for...  Today I start on Christmas Ornaments....  yes, you have it....  birds.  I have reduced the pattern to 65%, 50% was just too small, even for me to work with (I use to be the QUEEN of small!)....

Yesterday I saw my honey before he ran off (to yet another  business function) and then attended a meeting of the Folk Art Fest-"We Art The People," where I am not only a vendor, but the volunteer coordinator.  Good meeting, but the day was a wash.....

Today is a doll club meeting (in Albuquerque) and I "get needled" (acupuncture).  So we will see how far I get with everything else I want to do....  I think I need to make a list....LOL....

I am thinking for the sculpted cactus, I may start with a couple of aluminum cans for the cactus....  Recycling is my "thing"......  Does anyone have any other suggestions as a base?

Hope you have a great day....  It's very overcast here and I expect it will rain!  Until later.....

Bird on a Cactus!

Yesterday, I wasn't able to post him....  I have decided that I am definitely going to transform him into a more ridgid sculpture (mixed media, still using some cloth)....I'll share as the process begins all the way through the end.....funny that this will be my first piece, since I have at least 3 other drawing standing in front of him....LOL....None of them are particularly happy to be put off....  I guess I am just in the "bird" state of mind.  And, I will be writing up the pattern for this and the pincushion, which with a bit of luck will be available soon.

I am also about to start some Masks....after all Fall, at least here, high in the Rocky's, is in the air.  That means it's just a hop, skip, and a jump until All Hallow Eve, or Halloween!!!!!  Which means Dios de Muerta (Day of the Dead), Trick or Treat, and Samhain..  fun, fun, fun    

Hoping you are having a wonderful day.....

                                                                              

Tuesday Morning Coming Down

Good Morning!!!  This is a quick note to say hello.  !  I took a bit of a break yesterday to do something other than a "pincushion"  I create a "piece"....  I hate to tell you that it is a bird on a cactus, but that is what it is.....  LOL....  Not quite finished, so I'll post it later when it is.... LOL... if my internet (or lack thereof) will allow..... 

Wishing each of you a marvelous day filled with much love!

Cactus Flower....

Monday morning and the sun is up and we are still getting an inordinate amount of rain.  House is clean, quiche for the week is cooked as and the eggs are hard boiled....  Lunch is ready to go...  My honey is coming to have lunch today....

Mom is home, other than some back issues (she had to see a chiropractor) she had a good time.  And me, the saga of the birds march on.

To date, this is certainly my favorite!  I've decided that I will call this pattern"Cactus Flower," and am entertaining the idea of commercial patterning it.... if of course there is enough interest....writing a pattern takes a bit of time.  But this is easy and fun and from beginner to advanced, you can let your imagination fun free....  I think I am keeping this one and going to "Bernardize" or "Bling" it out as soon as I get 5 free minutes (LOL....It'll take more than that for sure!)

Another Saturday Morning.....

Got up with the birds this morning and am just dropping by to post these pictures on the birds on their cactus'....  Wishing each of you a marvlous day...  if I get a moment I'll post again....  Let me know, how you like them!?  Don't mind my shaking....  either it's too much coffee (never) or my tremor is bad today.....  Ain't aging a grinch some times?   LOL...

FINALLY!!!!!!

After 3 days of trying different things...ie, eggs, smaller cactus, pincushions in a mason jar top, etc., etc., etc...........  I think I finally came up with the solution.  Now, just need to make a few adjustments to the cactus and it'll I'll be in like flint.  Here is the original bird, I added a top notch to the bird, then placed it atop the cactus....  I tried several ways to create this cactus and this one, I hand blanket stitched the cactus after I finished it.....  So, a couple of adjustments and I think I am in like Flint.....  Would love to hear what you think!