40 years?

Just returned from attending my high school reunion. The thought of 40 years having passed since graduation made me feel old...but attending the celebration with classmates made me feel young. It was so much fun!

It's all in the packaging!

A friend, who knows how wooly my head has become lately, sent me this spoof ad...

Farm Country

I went to the farm to take pix of the sheep. I wanted to meet them. But, they were no where to be found, and the owner didn't seem to be either. Huge, friendly Newfoundland greeted me with a sniff and a tail wag. The ten cows were out in their pasture. But the hen and chicks made the trip worth it!

Nothing in the way of quiltiness today... wool has taken over my life, at least until the September quilt show. Here is a pic of what I have processed from the fleece. A teeny, tiny mole hill extracted from the mountain?

  You start with a mountain of wool, right off the sheep...

There is more than a little 'processing' to do to remove the VM (wooly people talk for Vegetable Matter), the BM, the P, the grass, hay, burrs...Okanogan County women are not wusses. We go at it glove-less!

But, ah... the reward for doing all that processing-you get this!

Gift of the morning...

I was out on the deck this morning and this is what I saw. This fawn is still at the speckled, spotted age.  And though we need to move on from this time and this place into a new stage of life...I will miss these morning gifts.

First Sale!

I am readying my Fantasy Fish wall hanging for shipping. The thrill and big smile of my first sale off the fiberartfromtheheart.com website! Okay, so it was purchased by a very nice, very supportive relative, but not a blood relative, so that is pretty cool anyway! (Thank you, Garth!) And he doesn't know it yet, but as the first person to buy my art on the web, his shipping costs will include a couple dozen homemade cookies...

Mostly dyeing...

Storm's a brewin' out there this morning! Dark clouds are rolling in, lightening is beginning to show off, and rain is imminent.  That made me scurry out to my newest place to hang wool to dry and snatch it into the house to finish drying. Now the thunder is threatening to shake the house down, so I best get this computer shut down! Have a safe day, everyone!

My newest hang out!

Latest ice parfait batch. Yum!

Art From The Heart- the website!

     My husband is a computer genius! Just thought I would get that right out there, first thing. He is also above and beyond supportive of all the artsy, wooly, weird or wonderful things I create, or try to create.
     So, he has been working and working and working on a website to feature my art. He built it from the HTML up! It was a pretty steep re-learning curve for him, as the last time he wrote code was 7 years ago. As we all know the computer world info grows 'old' in the length of time it took to type this sentence!
     But today was launch the web site day. If you have a chance, check it out. He has slide shows set to music, galleries of my art, and a Zen shopping cart (whatever that is!) I think what he did for me is beautiful. I hope you enjoy a peek...
http://fiberartfromtheheart.com/
Update:
There are a couple of error pages/links. Rick will get them fixed tomorrow!

Sarah and Shekinah Glory

     During my break from the very fun, very silly worm migration quilt, I was drawn to this piece that has been 'waiting in the wings' for about a week...
     Remember all those faces I see in the ice-dyed fabrics? This one really spoke to me (not literally!) and I had gathered several Serendipity dyed embroidery flosses to go with this fabric-rather the photo on canvas of the original fabric. I laid the floss down on thin lines of glue, using a toothpick to tuck in ends.
     I have a story teller's heart and my mind's eye sees the biblical Sarah in the foreground with Mt. Sinai in the background (blue hill) over which the Shekinah Glory of God in a cloud...

Rogue Q-ing progresses...

I have the AC on full blast, music on full blast, and creating full blast! :?} I have one flower pretty much done, the other two lined out.  Meanwhile the lower portion of the quilt just begged for something or someone to fill in the blank spaces, so I free cut ant/worms (the pieces can be adjusted to whichever I decide).

Working title: After the Rain-Migration

Design walls are great, but I find more 'oopses' when I take a photo! That top worm can not crawl on the ground AND across the stem of the flower simultaneously! He can crawl behind it, or below it, or beyond it...
Time for a snack & back rest break.