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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Palouse Progress

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Last day of the month and I had hoped to have another quilt completed. However, I'm still fighting a bug which has slowed me down. Still...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

First Quilt of the Year

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"Brilliance of the Night Sky" Hand-beaded Art Quilt 8" x 10" framed Sheila Mahanke Barnes 2012 Fever be damned, I was d...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Another troubled week

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Emerging design. Non-emerging design. For all my optimism, it was another week of stumbles and restarts. The good news is, after another rou...
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Bright Ideas vs Reality

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The vision gap that kicked off last week continued no matter what I picked up to work on. Compared to the previous week when I felt I was ma...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Vision Gap

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Ah, beading...you are so addictive. What starts out simple begins to build, more ideas, more beads... This is what I worked on today, thinki...
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Friday, January 06, 2012

Direction

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Today was pretty grey but yesterday the sun made a stunning appearance, lighting up the willows I can see from the front porch with a shimme...
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Thursday, January 05, 2012

Settle down - or not

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My last post talked about the scattered feeling I had as I assessed my progress toward the upcoming exhibits. I've thought a bit more ab...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Brainstorming for 2012

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I have not been able to coalesce my thoughts as to where I want to go with my art this year and other aspects of my life. Instead, I've ...
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Sunday, January 01, 2012

A New Year

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Gotta tell ya, seeing this movie in the theater today was a great start to the year! Kinda made up for the fact that The Rose Parade, which ...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

New Year's Eve

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Here it is the last day of the year, and I am still in a cheerful mood . The year is going out on a high of sorts, at least my mood is high....
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Cheerfulness a deterrent?

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"Eggplant ala Albars" 12" x 12" Art Quilt Gerrie Condon 2011 "Being cheerful is really no recipe to get down to wor...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas

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Greetings of the season regardless of your beliefs. It's that warm fuzzy time of the year, and I hope that you are enjoying it in some w...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Mountain Ash Snow Berries Fabric Postcards

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I put the finishing touches on these around midnight last night. A last row of red stitching next to the satin stitched edges. (Click on pho...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Mountain Ash Berries

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Priorities scolded "no", the muses encouraged "yes". You can see who won out. Just had an overwhelming urge to start pla...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

POAC Exhibit "Cabin Fever"

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" Poppies & Peonies " 23" x 18" Art Quilt Sheila Mahanke Barnes 2011 We hung the latest POAC exhibit yesterday, and...
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Thursday, December 08, 2011

Ahhhhhh

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Back in business...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The Part

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At last, the part for my sewing machine has arrived and has now replaced the troublesome one above. Tomorrow, machine quilting can begin in ...
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Sunday, December 04, 2011

Thankful for the Sun

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Yes, the sun made an appearance today, taking the edge off an otherwise chill day. As I stood by the lake, soaking it in, I chanced to look ...
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Saturday, December 03, 2011

Playing Telephone

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My cousin, Laura, sent me a little challenge, a box that is making the rounds in a game of Telephone. To be honest, this is not a game I pla...
Friday, December 02, 2011

December Goals

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I get a big kick out of Austin Kleon 's newspaper blackout horoscopes. Above is mine for December - something to think about and it make...