Learning Curve

I am having fun playing with my new Mac, but theres definitely a learning curve... especially with photoshop elements.

Speaking of learning curves I wanted to post a picture of my bird quilt from Jane LaFazio's class. It came out just ok... I really struggled with it. I cant wait for her to offer another class though.


The last project I am doing for her class is a shrine. I need to do a lot of handwork on it... so it may take me awhile to finish it, but here it is as a WIP:

Yooohoooo!!!

I have a new Mac computer and I am loving life!! More to come soon! (I am on vacation this week so have time to play!)

In Auntie Heaven

Guess who came for a very, way to short, visit? Yep... my sweet boys! I haven't seen them in far too long! I thought I would go in January, but what with getting DJ, I haven't been able to visit. I had a great time with them. Colton (who's 3yrs old) showed me how to work his mommy's IPhone. Gray, is a bit shyer, but had definitely warmed up to me by the end of the evening. All in all, we had so much fun playing together. Here are a few pics... I have more to download.

Art Quilt Class

I am three weeks into a six week art quilt class taught by Jane LaFazio on joggles.com. Its really been a great class. The lessons are wonderfully presented: clear and easy yet very inspiring. The first week was to make a landscape quilt. They are all very small about 8x10". This isnt the best picture, but here's my first quilt. I used hand painted cottons, commercial batiks and silk. It was really fun to put together.


Week two was to use felt, but I ended up using cotton batting that I hand dyed using RIT dyes. I had a great time and ended up making two quilt tops! She suggested using mola or the quilts of Gee's Bend for our inspiration.




This week's lesson is to make a pet potrait... can you guess who my muse will be?

My Valentines

After a delicious breakfast we took DJ out for a wonderful walk. We had a great day and hope you did too!

Our New Hearthrob...

DJ our wonder dog! He is so silly, sweet and still such a pup. We are loving having him! I will post more pictures of him so you can see his complete handsome self.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

I haven't posted in such a long time... life has felt so busy with no real spare time to write.

We did a crazy thing... we chose a dog based on three pictures and a brief description of his personality on-line! He was in a kill shelter so there was no chance to meet him prior to saying "YES!". My sweet BIL Richard picked him up for us and took him to Nevada City. I met him for the first time on Christmas Eve. He is a sweetie! He's a retriever, boxer, ridgeback mixie kind of dog, about a year old. He has a lovely red brown coat with a white belly, white paws, and the tip of his tail is white too. (pics to follow soon).

My brother Michael and Richard bathed him and gave him their own aggression test which he passed with flying colors! He is still a bit of a puppy, smart, curious but not destructive, and catching on to being house trained. He was a stray for a bit so he gets very scared by people and other dogs when were outside. (poor sweetie... but he will learn its ok). Were totally in love!