Greetings !

Thursday Feb 14 2008

Wednesday Feb 13 2008

Lorraine Satkowski's good friend Sandy

sent some photos today of a recent

coastal trip near San Francisco/Carmel

-----I liked this one of the "Gathered Gulls"----

right now seems like a good time to be

out there seeing that part of the

country with no coats,

just jeans, shirt and sunglasses.

Package of Collage goodies

Still Tuesday Feb 12th

A fun package of what the sender called

"junk" was a delight to open and see all the

things from many colors of seed beads, jewerly

discards for various reasons, gold chains,

watch straps other sundry items---

Thank You very much to

Marilyn in Taunton, Mass!

Sumptuous Surface

Tuesday Feb 12 200This is the first post card size Sumptuous Surface

I finished while taking an online class with

Sharon Boggor from Australia. We were

to have a silhouette of whatever

we wanted as the theme. I picked a

white finger star shell.

The top background stitches represent

under sea flora and

doing it in 3 layers in differnt subtle

colors gives the texture

this assignment is all about.

We were to not use much color

and stay monotone

as much as posssible to see,

in the final result how

texture done in various ways,

is used in fabric art.

On the bottom are are varied stitches, such as

wagon wheels, Colonial and French knots,

satin stitch, phuff and others---plus embellishments

including some great white turquoise,

abalone, tiny shells, buttons and beads. If I

had started using a white background

I would not have filled the

sea star, but it's slender shape became

lost till I outlined it in the darkest shade I dare

use and then filled it with

glass beads to represent how the sea is so often

shimmering This concept is so different

then doing a painted design to me, that

it does stretch my outlook and also

being involved helps bring more understanding

and appreciation of the fiber arts.

A "guess where" photo

Monday Feb 11 2008

This is a "guess where" photo, mostly for the one

person that checks my Blog daily----

I'm almost positive she'll know so

she and only she, must name the month, too.

Good Luck!

Think He'll Get The Job?

Sunday Feb 10 2008

This a diagonally across the street and taken Feb 3rd...

I loved the shadows spilling off the lawn into the drive..

Since this photo was taken, a sign has been added near the drivway

end---which says, "Ron Paul for President".....only place I've seen

one of those.

Silver Wedding

Feb 9 2008

Tonight we celebrate Kevin and Linsley's

25 Silver Wedding Anniversary.

They were married on Valentines's Day,

the same as Francis and I.

A ballet was performed, choreographed

especially for them after the ceremony