If you’ve been around this blog since before Atti was born, you read a whole lot of my angst about making my dreams come true and how I longed to be a capital W-Writer. It’s kind of mind boggling to…
I’m already hearing jingle bells….
As soon as I glimpse the end of summer, it’s pretty much a dead sprint to Christmas. It’s the time of year I find the most inspiring, and my head is always stuffed full of way too many ideas to…
Fixing up the clothes
In that pile of clothes I bought at the Goodwill a few weeks ago were a few things that needed a little help. This tunic and those black pants are both double knit, indestructible, polyester. Oh I have a weakness…
Mondrian Quilt Top
Piet Mondrian. Composition: Light Color Planes with Grey Contours. 1919. As a comparison, here’s the original piece. I made a to scale replica of this painting in quilt form, and I am just so dang impressed with myself. I made…
Major score!
What you see up there cost me $50 at the Goodwill down the street. $50. 2 jackets, a skirt, 5 pairs of pants, a dress, and 7 tops. For $50! I gave up thrifting all together in San Diego, but…
Quilt in progress
So along with gallivanting through the countryside and embarking on complicated furniture builds, the other thing that kept me distracted from my typical blogging duties was this Mondrian quilt I finished designing last week. I can. Not. tear myself away…
Cherry picking on the farm
Sorry for my sudden mini-hiatus. I’ve been overwhelmed with good things and no time to keep track of them. I have two weeks of fun to share with you, and that’s always a nice development heading in to summer. We’re…
Modern Art in Quilt Form
Having so thoroughly expressed my love for midcentury design, it should probably come as no surprise that my favorite painters come from the modern art category. I love the art nouveau work of Klimt, I love the whimsy of late…
Fine Art Beading Project
This is one of those ridiculously large scale projects I got underway last week. It’s something that’s been kicking around in my head forever but I can only now get around to it because I planned it all out, but…
Productivity in Procrastination
I spent all last week staring down the calendar and wishing I could ignore a deadline. I was very nearly successful, too. Irreantum is a literary journal for a Latter Day Saint audience, and every year they hold a contest…