With my Mum’s arrival in the studio she returned a piece she had started last year.

I have a small 6×4 beaded piece which sits in my studio- which I mention in a precious post regarding Zentangles. It was easy to grant her request for a piece of fabric and accessed some of the many beads she has donated to my space and let her have a go.Her hand stitching is currently better than mine but her eye-sight means she can only work in small batches.

In the last couple of weeks we have learnt that one of my husband’s photographic mentors has passed.We like to think he took the iconic pictures of Steve in front of the combine harvester on his Pallouse workshop with Art Wolfe.Steve has become the unpaid poster child for this course it appears regularly in photographic magazines.We all love this image but Steve learnt the magic phrase.”Good image but what does it mean ? ”

The description of this piece from Mum was that” this Deb in the heart of the Rockies with all the layers of the mountains around her”.Once we established that I’m in the heart of the cascades with a bit of a giggle we settle on this interpretation. This piece has returned back to England with her in a small purse I made for her.

Wow Daniel Smith really pulled the cat out of the bag today.I went to an excellent lunch time session by RayPfortner.com.

We covered lots on how to document or “digitizing your art” interesting content and as ever a fascinating audience.

I met Kate of redharparts.com at the check out  .We chatted about seattle.urbansketchers.org.That is not where my talents lay but I was interested in the mending of costumes at Port Nisqually that I can do with confidence.

I have been described this week as the Inchie queen by one of the members of the online community The Extraordinary League of Crafters.One way to make a girls day.This batch was made for our New Year swap.Upper batch are paper ( grocery bags a personal favorite-thift store stamps,wax crayons and a hybrid ink stamp) The” Take a Chance” stamp was a purchased for a class project back in the day.A nice link to the fabric inchies is that the blue flowers are from my fav teaching blouse.More layers of meaning.Have to confess I’ve been musing around making fabric handstitched inchies for a while.It was nice to have the opportunity to make these for Laura my swap partner especially as we negotiated to make them 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 inch just lets them be a bit more juicy.

Mushroom by Mischevious Raven

Now that is a strange title.My package has arrived from Mysterious Raven.The mushroom will fit perfectly on the tree dress.The banner will work well on the porch.We are having high windstorms so will be dressing the deck at the last minute this year..