Idaho Beauty's Creative Journey

Exploring the creative journey...MY creative journey...as expressed through textiles. What nurtures it, what blocks it? Inspirations, frustrations and "doing the work." Oh yes - and the occasional rant.

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Monday, July 14, 2025

I'm Back

There's a song that goes "Back to life, back to reality" that I reluctantly sing in my head once my week of seclusion (or any ...

Saturday, July 05, 2025

That Unwanted Anniversary

F. Allen Barnes 1953 - 2000 As the anniversary of my husband's death loomed, I came to the realization that I have lived without him for...

Friday, July 04, 2025

Quotes & A Podcast

Here are a couple of tangles I liked from last week. I always enjoy the over and under designs that look woven and/or 3-dimentional. These h...

Friday, June 27, 2025

Be Well Tangling

That accordion sketchbook is working well for my zentangling, small enough to sit on my desk as a reminder to pause for a minute each day. M...

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Zentangle Break

3" x 3" accordion sketchbook Back in May, the Zentangle people offered a 21 day "Be Well" series which I was interested...

Thursday, June 12, 2025

A Mending Week

Arrow pointing to invisible thread loop of finger I have company coming in a couple of weeks; it's prodding me to take care of some thin...

Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Quest Completed

I've been working on the orphan block tote bag in fits and starts, most sessions ending with "my head HURTS" from all the work...

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About Me

The Idaho Beauty: I'm a native Idahoan who has finally returned home after many years of bouncing around the U.S. My "Idaho Beauty" trademark comes from a traditional quilt block name, appropriate for a homesick Idahoan in love with all aspects of quilting. In another life there were motorcycles. Now I content myself with following motorcycle roadracing. When that abates for the winter, I switch to figure skating. I've never had a pair of skates on, but I often dreamed up elaborate programs in my mind. Ah youth... I've always read, all kinds of things, fiction and non-fiction. I caught the bug for journaling from a HS English teacher, and the love of personal correspondence from my mother. I've almost always had a dog. I'm currently without, but the last version was a smallish black lab with an attitude big enough to make up for her size. There was some confusion about who was the master in this house. She'll be hard to replace. I appear to have a calling to create art, but I sometimes flounder in my quest. Thus I blog.

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