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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Mail Bag & More Thread Magic

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Look what the mail has brought me this week - a large envelop from June stuffed with silk scraps, some commercial, some her own handy wo...
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Friday, November 29, 2013

We Have A Winner!

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Thanks to all who weighed in on my anniversary post, letting me know how & sometimes why you follow my blog, and in some cases, how you...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

More Postcards

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To my surprise and delight, I have received a commission for a dozen of my oak leaf fabric postcards. The original background fabric was ...
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Recurring Themes

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"The creative memory is fickle and needs to be taken fresh. If you seize the day and go to work at the first flush of interest, you...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Blogger Anniversary

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Today marks the 8th anniversary of Idaho Beauty's Creative Journey blog. I always enjoy looking back at that first post explaining m...
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Monday, November 18, 2013

Tears of Mayo

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"Tears of Mayo" by Sheila Mahanke Barnes 2013 I completed the beading on Tears of Mayo this weekend and mounted it over a st...
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Sunday, November 17, 2013

Watching a Sun Set

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Every now and then one really should take time to enjoy the changing nuances of the sun setting at the end of the day. I allowed myself t...
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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Slow Going

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It takes forever to bead a spiral when using tiny beads like these. That needle is an inch long quilting between and the spiral will be...
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Thursday, November 07, 2013

Rest of the Postcards

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It's a wet dreary day so perfect for hunkering down in the studio and finishing up my oak leaf postcards. It would appear I need to a...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Oak Leaf Postcard Progress

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I should know by now that whatever my first choice of thread color is, it will not show up like I think it will. Blendy blendy seems to b...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Color Palette Ideas

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We've had several weeks of glorious autumn afternoons, brisk but brilliant with the color of turning leaves. I marvel at how I can lo...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Dragging Feet Syndrome

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I've been having a tough time moving forward with the second lesson of my on-line linocut class, another one chocked full of good inf...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Life Circles Round

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I'm sure you remember that guava dye run I said my friend Sherrie would be wanting to steal from me. Indeed she did want to, but was...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Disparate Items Coming Together

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It can take an amazingly long time for the bits and pieces we collect for our art to suddenly become the answer to creating a new design....
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