Art Abandoned

Patience

My word of the year (see my sidebar). I just ran across this quote and had to share:

To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically patience protests us from [...]

Happy Halloween

Featured in an old article of mine “Getting Your Pumpkin On”

Sandra Dallas – a kindred spirit?

I was catching up on some blog reading today and came across this post about “women’s art” by Sandra Dallas:

I love quilts. I appreciate the artistry and workmanship and the fact they are women’s art. But mostly, I love finding the secrets they tell. But I also love samplers, because like quilts, they [...]

Beginning lace class

Wow, I am SO behind. However, this is a look at the beginning lace class I took a few weeks ago. The good news is that the teacher is following up with another class, so maybe my next piece won’t look so bad! ha h

First, I want to thank Linda with the Rocky Mountain [...]

Cutest mice EVER!!!!

Is this NOT the cutest mouse you’ve ever seen? If not, there are more here!

I took a fantastic bobbin lace class today and so there will be posts soon! (talk amongst yourselves about the cute mice)

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Cute (but pricey) embroidered high fashion purses

I’m not sure how many of you watch fashion/tv blogs, but TLo (formerly Project Rungay) just posted this cute cute purse that Tilda Swinton was carrying. There are more over on Olympia Le-Tan’s online shop and they are fabulous – reproductions in embroidery of some fabulous book covers. However, hold on to your seat with [...]

Stitching in public

Every other week I meet with a group of crafty stitchers at Panera bread – the group started as an extension of my Crazy quilting group. We get together, several of us order dinner, at least one only gets a drink, there are desserts (we moved from a Starbucks because of the larger selection of [...]

I should just admit….I’m an addict

Sigh. I just realized I have a problem. I know, all of you will laugh because those of you who are on Facebook or who follow me Twitter-wise or whatever, probably know this, but I have a blog problem.

I know, it’s not news.

However, I may have just reached my peak. I have subscriptions [...]

Perfect Moment Monday – touring the lights!

One way we always cheer the holiday spirit is by driving around and looking at everyone’s fabulous Christmas lights. This year I took a map from the Denver Posts’ Holiday Lights Map and we used that as a way to find the “sights”. We went to a lot of wonderful displays (a few that weren’t [...]