BJP 2008

My webpage is up in the 2008 BJP Member's Gallery featuring the first eight months of my face/profile BJP series.  It is great to see them all together & quite a motivation to finish the final four!

Take a peek by clicking here or browse the entire Bead Journal Website more slowly by clicking here, which is the entry way.

Kate's ATC

I won!  I won!  I won one of Kate North's lovely ATCs!

Butterfly Pink

She offered five in a drawing open to all who signed up for her ALQS #4 (Another Little Quilt Swap, round 4).  Click here to learn more about it, though basically you sign up, make a quilt, send her digital images of it -- then select your top 10 favorites of the others posted -- and she arranges the swaps from everyone's top 10 wish lists.  For the specific guidelines, click here.

Thank you Kate for a lovely ATC and for hosting this swap again.  It is my first time to join ALQS and I look forward to this fun swap .... must go finish my quilt .... so I can possibly finish two to swap.

BJP 2007

Hurray!

Now announcing ... not only have I completed my first series of the Bead Journal Project but they all appear on my page of the BJP website.

Can you believe that it was just last June, well, June of 2007, when I began my first beaded design?  I selected the 4"x6" classic postcard to use for this series of Beaded pieces.   In three short years I have completed this self-challenge.  My oh my, how the time has flown by!

You can see all twelve pieces in the 2007 BJP Member's Gallery, or by clicking here.

Meanwhile, I have four more pieces to finish in my 2008 series of BJPs .....

Felted Bowl

The Sixth annual Houston-area Empty Bowls event is tomorrow. 

This year, I crocheted a bowl and then felted it.

Here is a bottom-side up view.

I made two -- and kept meaning to add embellishments of some sort, but ran out of time this year.  Be sure to come tomorrow and support the Houston Food Bank by enjoying a bowl of soup and selecting a bowl to keep as your special momento.

Empty Bowls 2010

This Saturday, May 22, is the Sixth Annual Empty Bowls event at the Houston Contemporary Craft Center.   As in the past two years, I have made a fiber-art bowl to donate to this worthy cause and I've encouraged my fellow art quilters and fiber artists to do the same.

If you have a bowl to donate -- they started collecting them last week and will be glad to accept yours too!  Just drop it by HCCC before Saturday or click here for more details.

If you are in or near Houston, be sure to stop to browse the wonderful selection of bowls and stay for a tasty lunch consisting of a bowl of soup (naturally!) and your choice of one lovely bowl to keep.  Minimum donation is $25.00, although they have a select group of upgraded bowls (these are fabulous!).  Come in the afternoon and look for me or my boys as we will be there volunteering.

Final BJP, first series

At long last, I have finished my 12th Bead Journal Project Piece from the initial BJP challenge.  This challenge started long ago, in a galaxy not so far away ... and I'm tickled to announce that I've finally finished my first series of BJPs!!!

Here is my final BJP, following "April Showers", we have "May Flowers" ...

Being from Texas, my favorite wild flowers are bluebonnets.  The ones feature here are made with hot-glue-gun-squiggles, painted with Lumiere blues and held in place with additional beading.  One reason this BJP is so late in being completed is that I made then misplaced the glue-gun-squiggles for a few months.  I stitched this piece together quickly once I relocated the squiggles, so I could close the book on my first year of the Bead Journal Project.

I am thrilled I have completed my 12 pieces for this year-long commitment, even if took me much longer than the original 12 consecutive months. Now to finish with my second series .... we won't even talk about my third series just yet ... but I plan to get there .... eventually!

A new Challenge

My Beyond the Borders art quilt group has been working on a new challenge piece.... I've finished my piece and wanted to give you a tiny sneak ...

Can you figure out what classic story these detail shots illustrate?  (I'd love to post more photos of this challenge group quilt, but first we're hoping to enter it into a few quilt shows and exhibits).

While meeting our challenge guidelines, I was quite surprised to realize that I have also made a third in my short-lived "Big Foot" series -- what fun!  Perhaps I will make a few more to add to this series ....