Photoshopping Remains of the Day Romance!

This is my "take" on Teresa's "love shack" over on the Paper Romance Ezine. There is a heart hanging inside that you can see through the window. And I, too, have been captured by Mary Ann Moss' Remains of the Day Journals.... Just scroll down her page to see them...

I assembled the outside yesterday...

will make my tie in a few minutes...

and then begin my signatures. I am sooooooooo loving this class!

Oh...and that shot was taken before I did my free-motion stitching all over the top!

Also I am taking D.J. Pettit's Photoshop class!!!

I am not doing as well in it.... but I will persevere!!!!

Lineage of Love

I finished up my Lineage of Love piece

from one of Pam Garrison's classes at Silver Bella 09.

It has photos of my mother and two of her sisters

and also my grandmother.

The little blonde girl is me!

Put some of my mother's junk jewelry on it and also some crochet!

Wrapping up Silver Bella Posts!

Since Virginia's ornament is appearing on other sites....

thought I could share it here, too!

She was in the SB Felt Ornament Swap.... doncha love it!?

I upped the contrast as I took this in our hotel room!

We bought out Rebecca Sower's key necklaces at Vendor night!

I dearly love it!

Below are Kelly, me, Debe, and Virginia

in our necklaces

before we left for the airport to return home.

If you haven't seen enough, go here Silver Bella Flickr Pool!! Happy Thanksgiving!

and Gig 'Em, Aggies!

Silver Bella.... 2009 ... more...

Above is what I made in Rebecca Sower's class that I call the "cigar box class".

She gave us kits that had everything we needed. All I supplied was the box and the background paper. I also used a few of my own buttons and stuff and one of Virginia's for what is strung on the wire. I love her classes - I always leave with a finished project. I am going to glue a button on one of my blocks and maybe add a mica sheet....but otherwise it's complete!

These two are Rebecca's class samples. I also have a stick I can use, but I chose to use the flowers in my first one. Yes, I will be making more of these! I simply love them.

Below is Sabrina that was at SB for the first time.

She's from Florida... hopefully I have her moo card somewhere...

Here are Peggy, Katie and Janey.

That Peggy is always moving! Janey and me!!! Janey was one of my first Silver Bella friends at Silver Bella 2007!

Jo Packham was a wonderful speaker. She had us all in tears.... and laughing.

I didn't crop out the background cause you can see Teresa McFayden at the podium and Jo Packham, our speaker, of Where Women Create...which was there taking photos for an upcoming issue...standing in front of the podium... and I think that's Jennifer Murphy at the table to the right with her back to us...I took her Bundle Up Birdie class and loved it... and the blonde at that table is Charlotte Lyons. Jennifer and Charlotte and Teresa all have Silver Bella updates on their blogs today.

Carol at Raised in Cotton has some great photos of vendor night on her blog.

.... more later this week ....

Recovering from SB 2009

SiLveR BellA 2009

has come and gone...

but it will take days to tell you about it.

This is the centerpiece at Saturday's luncheon.

Cari Kraft made them!

The photo below is from Peggy...

Natalea, do you see Janey behind the tree!

We sat together in Pam Garrison's Lineage of Love class.

Janey loves me ........ pictures tomorrow...

Today I'll share photos of my two online friends that I met in person for the first time...

First is Katie!

And then I found Lynn a little later....

This is a picture of the 3 of us at the luncheon....

Katie is tall! I thought of her as petite!

Isn't that funny how we picture people?

But I was correct in how sweet and loving she is.

She is a beautiful woman inside and out! It was such a joy to meet her.

We only had one class together and we sat on opposite sides of the room...

that class was oversold - Rebecca Sower's cigar box class which was my

absolute favorite class!

Lynn is adorable. She is sooooooo cute and lively.

She needs a new picture on her blog.... she is a thousand times

more darling in person! I'll have to send her a new photo of herself!

Of course, I'm a thousand times cuter in real life myself.... so I get it.

......smile.... More TOMORRRRRROW!

You know where I am....

Gone to Silver Bella!

Sleep, Showers, Silver Bella

I just had to show you how ARt DoG watches football.

He's lying on an ottoman... he's quite large!

He loves football watching days!

Then Sunday there was a baby shower at my house....

I made a little corsage for the honoree to wear!

And I made a book of dresses....

had everyone write notes or tips to her

and, of course, I forgot to take a picture of it assembled.

But I had made a cover for it and I put holes in each shoulder

and tied with ribbons.

You know ....

where I go on Thursday, right?

SilVeR BELLLLLLLLLLA!

What I've Been Working On....

Above are three pieces I made for a Silver Bella swap... they are due this week.

I have been so blank about what to do!!!! I couldn't make a decision and kept pulling

stitches out and starting over.

They were to be 4 x 5... our

hostess for the swap

is going to make us little

books with 3 samplers in them,

plus surprises! We

get them on Thursday

night at Silver Bella!

Below are some things I made over the last few months that are NOT going to the Silver Bella swap.... I tend to play a little too much sometimes....

This first one is based on a tea towel that Anthropologie has out...I've given you a sneak peak in the past of this one.... I may use it in my QB5 Birds at Work and at Home book.....

Here's another based on an Anthropologie tea towel..... I just draw them off and stitch..

making a few changes... like I added the row of flowers below.... hey... that counts.

And..this was something I was considering doing for Silver Bella Sampler Swap... but nah...

Silver Bella 09

Yes, I'm going to Silver Bella again!!! Are you?