Wow... today is my 200th post...

Wow... I cannot believe that this is my 200th post on my blog. I am sure glad that I started this adventure, it has rekindled my creative bug! I finished another zentangle:

I received my first postcard today from the Liberate your Art post card swap that Kat hosted from here blog  kateyeveiw.com the button is on the left sidebar on my blog. Here is my first card I received:

The postcard is very cool... I am not sure where it is from? I am going to put it on my wall.  I cannot wait to get some more!

It is very hot here today where I live so I am sitting in the air conditioning and I am going to go downstairs to my room and work on another project.... maybe in my journal? Thanks for looking!

Karen



busy summer so far....

I cannot believe that July is almost over! I have been working on a couple of things. One of which is my latest tangle...

The other thing that I made that I have not taken a photo is a cover for a piece of outdoor "furniture" we have nothing too crazy. The weekends have flown by... garage sale on one and then I volunteered for the Special Olympics as a basket ball scorekeeper and it was a lot of fun. Well, kinda of short not for today.  Thanks for looking!

Karen

Quick post....

This is just a quick post about a website I discovered by the recommendation of a gal who came to a garage sale we were having at my Mom's house. She told me about this web sit called pinterest. It is so cool (I thought).  People "pin" links to things they find on the Internet that they think are cool. Like the idea for this (need to find the link I did not copy it) but the gall took a wine rack and plastic cups to hold her markers:




and food from this web site Seasaltwithfood. I made these potatoes last night and umm they were easy and good...



Well.... Thanks for looking!
Karen

spring cleaning...

Since my last post I have been busy cleaning up my "sewing" room and closet.... in one of my last posts I showed some pictures of my closet and totes full of fabric as I started organizing and cleaning. I am finished and got rid of a lot of stuff but still have a lot. How can one accumulate so much fabric and art supplies?  Here are some shots of organized chaos...

I have also been working on a new tangle....

During this time, my husband delivered the quilt to my sister in law and she loved it. I think I may need to make another. I sent my postcards off for the swap I am in Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap I used a couple different zentangle drawings that I manipulated using Corel Paint Shop after I scanned them in...

I hope who ever gets them likes them... I can't wait to see what I get. I do love to get mail and it seems so rare now a days. Next few days I am going to focus on my latest tangle and finish making a cover for our bar outside...  thanks for looking!

Karen

I am a finalist....

I am so excited... I finished my mini journal quilt...

and I entered in the reader challenge that is in the current Quilting Arts magazine called "Tag You're It" and I am a finalist! It was announced on their blog Quilting Daily. I can't believe it, I am so excited. A couple of years ago now I signed up for Creative Everyday and it actually happened to be the November and the them was Art Everyday Month in 2009 and that is what got me out of my creative slump and started being creative again. And as I participate in Creative Everyday and slowing travel my journey with The Artist Way I am gaining my confidence in what I am doing and being an Artist. A couple of years ago I was not able to say that.  I am glad I discovered blogging from reading Kelly Rae Roberts book Taking Flight and finding all the cool blogs I have gone to, follow and thank you to all that follow my blog.  It is a great community!

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!
Karen

the quilt is finished....

The finished product.

Now I am working on cleaning up and out my "sewing room" starting with organizing my fabric stash...

and then there are quilt tops to be finished....

The quilt was delivered to my sister-in-law on Tuesday and she loved it.  I am so glad that she liked it. I finished it at 1:00am that same day.  I had so many obstacles to getting it done this weekend (I need to go back a few chapters in my Artist Way and read again). Now I am tackling my sewing room; We had to replace our water heater and the power supply for the water heater is behind a wall in my sewing room closet so, I had to take everything out on one side.  My Mom's neighborhood is having a garage sale so I thought it was time to go through stuff to get rid of it.  I have decided I am a fabric hoarder (don't tell my husband) and I cannot part with any of it because I might need it some day. Next are quilting books, I know I have some of those I am going to part with.... I will have to take a picture of the shelf now as they are full. 

I am taking tomorrow off of work so today is my "Friday" yippee! Have a great day and thanks for looking!

Karen

 

progress on one journal page, cleaning out a cupboard and beautiful skies...

I have been working on my newest journal page which is turning out to be a quilt, a small one....

I changed one of the elements on the side, same words but
written on different material, I have also sandwiched it together
and  I am making it a mini journal quilted page.

I have been quilting it with embroidery thread....

I do like experimenting with different materials/mediums. I originally was going to incorporate this into a cover for my iPad but, I decided to turn it into a quilt... still working on it. The other weekend I decided to clean out my cupboard where I store all my plastic containers, yup it was a mess and yup I had more lids that bottoms...

to the recycle bin they went....

On Monday we had some more clouds and rain (we have had a lot of rain for where we live), and I just love to take pictures of the sky....

The sky is so beautiful, and I have so many pictures of the sky and clouds... so day I am going to have to print some up and hang in my house. I am hoping to start a new tangle this coming week along with cleaning out my sewing room closet (ha ha). So it is time to head off to bed...  thanks for looking and have a wonderful day tomorrow!

Karen