Stitching My Story

View From the Little House...

Unit Four went to visit his big brother earlier this month which left {dear cowboy} and I CHILDLESS (sigh... don't even get me started on this topic).

One afternoon we visited a couple of antique stores in a neighboring town and I fell in love with a jar of old game pieces.

When we got home, I decided to gather up some favorite game pieces of my own.

I am thinking that, besides being yummy to look at, grandbaby B will enjoy emptying the jar from time to time to spell out words.

A Change in the Weather...

It is cold for the first time

in a long time.

I am happily bundled inside

in warm clothes

reading, drawing, baking.

Gray and chilly are

among my favorite canvases

for painting a day.

Colors are brighter

by contrast.

 

Retaining Wall + Broken Dishes =

{dear cowboy} put up this retaining wall along one side of our yard. It gave us more usable gardening space, but it was sort of LARGE and gray....

I recently came across the work of Isaiah Zagar online and remembered the tub of broken dish pieces in the shed....

I don't really know a lot about doing mosaic, but fitting the pieces together seemed a bit like quilting. I covered the tops of two of the stones (figuring if I did them individually they could be moved). When I finish all of the tops, I will grout them with light gray grout. Bright and happy, right?

Living and Breathing the Alphabet...

Whew! I just finished my typography class. I've got two weeks left on another class, then almost a month off before classes begin again. In the meantime, typographic goodness fills my life, including...

 

Letters picked up at a craft fair to mark the way home (longer lasting than bread crumbs)...

College catalogs EVERYWHERE (along with dreams of fitting in a Master's degree one day)...

The world's sweetest herb markers (made by my super talented BFF)....

And a book I picked up in celebration of my finished typography final.

Images from Spring Quarter

In one of my classes this quarter, we started learning how to manipulate photos in Photoshop. Below are some of my altered photographs. Most of these photos were taken with the camera on my Blackberry Bold cell phone.

Warm/Cool/Complementary Baby O

Grainy Cup and Hands on Burlap Texture

Unit Two in a Garden

Linen Cloth Textured/Bordered Cup

Studio in Spring

High Contrast Baby O...

 
Garden Visitors...

Grainy Coffee Shop in Color...

When The Kids Are Away...

The parents STILL eat pizza!

All four units were otherwise occupied over the long weekend. {dear cowboy} and I stayed busy with household projects, a day trip to the big city, and LOTS of yummy food.

Fortune Found...

One of my regular runs ends near an Asian Bistro. Occasionally, I find a fortune blowing around outside. I feel like it's my LUCKY DAY when I find one! Here is the latest...

Chalkboard Poet...

{dear cowboy} reclaimed an old cabinet door and made me a perfectly sized chalkboard for my studio. The green border matches the green floor and trim. The center of the board is painted with several coats of chalkboard paint, sanded in between... a perfect surface for writing.

The board came complete with a short, yet meaningful poem. Who knew the man was a poet?!

; )

A Snowy Walk to the Coffee Shop....

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

John Ruskin

“What is the very next step I need to take?”

~Christine Kane

Sewing in my little studio always seems like a step in the right direction!

  Sitting on the porch with my mini green laptop checking out blogs frequently feels like a pretty good way to go as well.