My studio - Digging out from Christmas Avalanche II

Well, I'm embarrassed to share these photos.  I have been working on sorting all the scraps and putting them away.  Okay, I admit I keep getting distracted.  Have set up an area on top of all this mess to photograph my sister's gorgeous jewelry. I have made a dent in the blue scraps.  Okay I admit a small dent and only to make a project for the scrap color challenge I joined.  I will get cleaned up by next Wednesday! My son and fiancee are coming to visit.  Haven't seen him since he graduated last spring and took a job playing jazz on a cruise ship.
When i get cleaned up I will share some tips on studio design on a tight budget.

My studio - Digging out from Christmas Avalanche

So, I thought my studio was a disaster last May, trying to get two college graduation quilts finished...

I got cleaned up from this mess, but then this Christmas disaster struck.

Sketchbook Poject Day V

Nothing fancy on this page just random Haiku.

Martin Luther King March 2011

Stanford has celebrated Martin Luther King Day with a march and a great service.  This years theme was "Let the Trumpet Sound"  Ms Barthenia Brown was the Coordinator.  Below are some pictures from the march and the service.

Sketchbook Poject Day IV

Sketchbook Project Day III

Sketchbook Poject Day II

Here is page two of my journal

sketchbook project

I was part of the Brooklyn, NY sketchbook project.  My book was on the theme of Below the Surface.  I will post a page from it each day until it is all posted.  Here is the front of my book and the side.  It was almost 3 inches thick but only 22 pages.

This is a picture on me stitching the pages together on my sewing maxhine.

 My book standing up.  It is all done in cloth and mixed media.

The inside front where my book cove is attached.

Page 1

Pen and Ink

I am finally getting around to posting my finished pen and ink lighthouse.  I used it as one of the gifts for my family Christmas games.  I also made angels, satin ornaments, wallets from chocolate wrappers, book marks and lots of those bags that get thrown in the microwave to heat up and put on sore backs.  They had a lot of fun steeling the gifts from each other.  My second oldest  sister and her husband got the lighthouse painting.  It will go great in her TV room which has a lighthouse theme.
Here is a picture of the finished lighthouse, the edge is cut of due to the scanner size.

Here is a picture of the Apple Dry House:

Christmas Angels

Here are pictures of a few of my Christmas Angels.  I started by layering fabric and free-motion quilting. Some had stars, some leaves, hearts and some intersecting lines Then I drew the angels on the batting side and placed the backing fabric face down on the quilted side.  The hands were pinned in place and then the outline was sewn around.  The heads were attached separately after the faces were painted and finally the hair.