Prizes and New Work

If you have been reading my blog for a while, you probably know that Sue and I are having a Two Creative Studios Summer Giveaway. I just wanted to share with you a photo of some of the prizes. A gorgeous book that Sue made, a giclee art print, and some fabulous hand dyed fabrics that we both created. You can read all about this fun prize giveaway here.


The next photo is something new I worked on last weekend. I tried some new things on the central/focal area of this piece and then fused it down onto the hand dyed background. I've started with the free-motion stitching. I'm not sure yet if I'm liking it or not. I'll work on it in my spare time and we'll see what happens.


And for those of you who have been wondering about the pink and cream quilt progress. Here it is!


I've been working on this a lot lately and I'm almost finished. I need to get this project done and out of the way because I have some other commitments that I need to get working on. There's just not enough hours in my days. Oh how I wish I didn't need to sleep...or mow the grass...or cook...or clean....

The Creative Journey

Adding to yesterday's post titled "The Journey", my very good friend and author, Elana Bregin, suggested that life is not only a journey but a creative journey. How true....I never thought of it this way before......now, if I could just remember this and learn to take each day as it comes... How much easier life would be.

On another note, I was thinking yesterday that the 2 best things that I have ever bought are my camera and my sewing machine. I am so grateful to have both - they open up such wonderful avenues for being creative. It is awesome to be able to take photos and then use them in my quilting.......

Weekend Snapshots

We spent the weekend at Pismo, on the central coast of California. While it was a bit cooler in Fresno, it was still the perfect weather break for us--gray and a little misty in the morning, burning off to a sunny day. Sweatshirt and shorts weather. Ahh...


Like every other year, we park our car when we get to the hotel, and if we can't get to where we want to go by walking, well, we just don't go.

For Sunday lunch, we split a fabulous burrito. This is only 1/3 of it. Monstrous.
And this was our view as we sat on our deck eating our burrito and chips. Tough life...but somebody's gotta do it.

Yeah, I know. Pretty much the same view, sunnier this time. But really, how could anyone get tired of this view?

And remember how I planned on sewing at Lakeview but the weather was too nice to stay inside? Well, we just set up our tables facing the ocean and opened up the sliding glass door.

I know you are thinking to yourself: "Two sewing machines?" Mark cut, he pressed fabric and he sewed. We both worked on Matt and Samantha's wedding quilt. Here are parts of it...can't give away too many details, in case they happen to read this post, so there is another project on the table just to keep them guessing.
In the category of "what the heck is this guy doing?" We see him nearly every time we are here. He "crab walks" the beach, back and forth, only on Sundays. Why? I wish I could tell ya.
As a bonus, on Monday I got to meet Cynthia Mann of fabricworm, an etsy shop where I have spent many a dollar. So fun to meet her in person, and what better way (for me, at least...) to end the weekend than with a bag of gorgeous new fabric?