This is a triptych done for St. Mary's Catholic Church in Amarillo, Texas by quilt artist Terry Hancock Mangat. You can google her and see more of her wonderful work. This is beautiful. It was hanging at the International Quilt Festival in Houston last week.
Back to packing for Silver Bella!!!
Silver Bella is THIS WEEK!!!!! I finished my aqua/silver ornaments for the swap I signed up for at Silver Bella. Thank goodness I only signed up for one swap. I made stockings out of wallpaper. Sewed them up on the machine and then painted them aqua with alcohol ink, put glitter on, rubbed some snowflake rub-ons (hope they stay), attached tinsel at the tops, sewed buttons, tied bells, cutout vintage girl and used a glue dot to put her in. Too many steps!!
But now they are packaged up and look oh so festive! So the most important thing is taken care of. Now...what in the world am I gonna wear to Vendor Night? Guess we should've voted for pajamas after all. Noooo...it's junk gypsy...but it will be fun. Lots of lace, jewelry and jeans..and boots. Haven't really decided if I'm taking my boots....I do not want to take more than two suitcases to this. I'm so stubborn. You can look up gypsyville.com if you don't know (and want to know) what I'm talking about.
Quilt Festival, quilt festival, quilt festival! Always a highlight of my year! It's a day of seeing so much of the things I love to make and hold. Just being around this kind of stuff energizes me. And Virginia and I attended for our 21st time!!! It is a day we get to just hang out and visit with each other, handle beautiful fabrics and then walk away, drool over ribbons and dig through piles of "stuff". You should've seen us digging in a bin of ribbons and trims that were $2 a bundle. Of course we are very selective and limit ourselves to 3 or 5 bundles. We know our limits. I'll upload some more glimpses into our day over the next few days. I have to be getting ready for the granite and tile guys to show up Monday morning and take over my life for a couple of weeks.
And...this time NEXT WEEK...I'll be at Silver Bella!!!! There's a link on the left here.
On a much sadder note....please say a prayer for my dear friend
Nathalie . Pray for strength and comfort for her and her family as they deal with the murder of her sister this week.
Eeeeek! So appropo! I was determined to use some of these Halloween images I have. So I made myself get them in the mail last Saturday......what typically happens to me is the event arrives and my good intentions are still lying unassembled on my table in the "art room."
I think they are all pretty cute. I love fall colors! And I simply cut cardstock in that gothic shape I like, split a spider web napkin and glued it on
and then some images I had,and accordion pleated black crepe paper on the backs and stuck it down. I glued on some white trim (need to get more of that) and I actually sewed a button on the tops...I'm so domestic. ha Oh...also put silver glitter all around! The little witch card is obviously different...
Gotta start working on Christmas...it will be here before I know it. Boo!
Now that I have a blog, I will be sure and take the appropriate photos for y'all. But here are a few from last year and I must issue a disclaimer that I do not know who made these and if you know, please tell me and I will credit them. But I did not do them...I just adored them. However, we spend 90% or more of our day shopping at the vendor booths.
That pink dress is covered in buttons. I could do that! Maybe.
Art quilts are my favorites! I no longer quilt...but I will again...someone has to finish all those that are stacked and waiting in my house. Virginia, Keri and I are all very much into Paper Art and Cloth, Paper Scissors has a great area at the Festival now. These little houses were at their spot last year with their ATC Swap which Keri and I participated in. They have Make It University at the Festival! I plan to spend most of my day there this time. 
That is their wall of ATC's that we sent in and then we got to take the same number that we made.
See the black one with the bird on a nest of scripture and other good words and some fibers? That is one I sent in. I have done that image on several things...like my banner at the top of this blog.
