It's All About The WHIMSY!

A rainy day look around the Studio

 

Playing with water color palettes...

Loads of brushes...

 

There's some Halloween fun going on with skulls and glitter!

The Golden Snitch hovers overhead..

We've made a "gallery" wall for finished or almost finished pieces..This piece of mine is an image transfer over painted with oil pastels and acrylics.

Morgan's work in progress...she's painting right now, or she should be...

Another Morgan piece..can you guess what it is? 

For the love of Washi tape!

A small piece of mine...image transfer photograph over painted with a variety of paints..

Have a happy Saturday!  I hope yours is dryer than mine!

Winter Happiness

Frosted windowpane in the sunroom early this morning...While quite sunny clearly the "sunroom" is not a four season room here in New England.

 

Peppermint Mocha from Starbucks....

 

And this acquisition from my favorite yarn shop, The Mermaids Purl in the village.  

 http://www.themermaidspurl.com/

Could it get any better?  My idea of the perfect winter afternoon.  Add a little Christmas music and my day is complete!  And I will have a few more hand made Christmas goodies to give away.

Happy Knitting!!

 

I've been stitching in Parisian mood

 

Did I mention I love Paris!  

 

I've had the pleasure to wander her streets many times.  

Kaari Meng at The French General has designed a line of french inspired fabrics for Moda, beautiful rich colors and patterns.  She is one talented lady.  I'm stitching a quilt with the lumiere de noel collection.  Fabric is really my first "love"; it's all about texture and color.   Gone are the days when I made countless bed size quilts completely by hand.  I now work on a smaller scale and use my trusted friend Bernina to piece and occasionally machine quilt.  When completed this quilt will be just the right size for cuddling this winter.

          
 

 

 

Traveling and Time

I live a dual existence..a home in a beautiful coastal Rhode Island village...

 

 

and an apartment in mid-town Manhattan.

 

I spend a lot of time traveling back and forth on the train.  I do not "sit" well, I am happiest when my hands are busy.  Lucky me, I've usually got some project underway but for train travel, it must be small and not messy.  Happy day I found Rebecca Ringquist's Drop Cloth Samplers and have been stitching my way back and forth from Rhode Island to New York!  

On today's journey I will begin her next offering..the cake sampler.  Interested?

Find it here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/dropcloth

Crafting an itty bitty treasure box

I love these little beauties!  So many possibilities for embellishment! They are available at many craft stores.  Easy to make if you have roving and felting needles but that's a story for another day.  

 In our household felted balls are also the cat toy of choice.  The mere sound of the jar lid turning brings the kitties running.  And they like to hoard them as well.....I rarely get them back.  

Now on to the itty bitty treasure box.  Scraps of fabric from a previous project, machine quilted, cut to six sided shape, hand sewn into a cube and then the fun begins.  Embellished heavily with ribbon and yarn scraps, wire,  fabric yo-yo, a sweet silver charm, AND the fuzzy felted balls which even serve as feet.

 

If this doesn't say WHIMSY I don't know what does!!! In fact so cute it must be stored high on a shelf as it too has been dragged away to hiding by a certain unnamed cat.