A 10 Minute Challenge

In a group for felting I belong to we had a 10 minute challenge to do a gingerbread man. Well, here is mine..my dh laugh at him but that is OK..I hand felted him and know I could have done better if I had a machine..so if you get a good laugh, that is great and hope I made some part of your day happy..I did him in about 8 minutes so I added a scarf and than tried to add eyes but only got one on before the timer went off..not bad.. He is blue as I did not have brown..so I have a Blue felted gingerbread man!!

Knitting swatch and felted piece

these two pieces is what I did not being able to sleep last night, no thought in them at all..just something to do..I will redo them by adding other embellishments to them, melt them and so on..Gave me something to do..my great nephew Ethan came out of surgery this morning without complications..he is 7 months old..God is good..reason for not being able to sleep or concentrate on anything for a few days..

Bonnie Sabel New Book Positively Postcards

I received my copy of Positively Postcards by Bonnie Sabel and Louis-Philippe O' Donnell today in the mail. We were in group that swap our post cards..I had sent her one for an open theme..Bonnie liked it so well she was going to have it in this book..but the publishers cut it out..so Bonnie wanted me and another person to have one. Thank you so much...The cards are so magnificent and loved them all..It is not signed as it came directly from the publisher..Bonnie give directions on how she makes her award winning quilted cards. This is a book to have on your shelf if you love making post cards or even if you don't. It is so vibrant with colors. You will love it.

Hand Felting

I have been hand felting all evening and enjoying it very much..boy I can not wait for my machine..big one that is..
I have signed up for a challenge for postcards, bookmark and an 8x11 piece..it is wonderful..when I get done with them I will post photos.
Also not good at embroidery and forgot I had sign up for a swap in my group..so this has me a bit nervous..yes, me..lol..but I am trying to learn the other stitches besides the basic ones we all use but might have to refrain to the basic here..I have not been on my machine for a few days and really wanted to get to it today but did not..
My son's quilt has really got me this time..I hate to remove that dragon but I want flames to go up to the border and can not when the dragon's head is pointing down..so who love taking out stitches, my are invisible threads, even worse..lol

Brain surgery

All day I have been on needles and pins. My great nephew, Ethan, is having brain surgery tomorrow morning. He is 7 months old. My twin's other grandson. He has a cyst in the back of his brain. It is pushing on the brain. Thank goodness babies have check ups all the time. This is how they found out. His head was larger than what is was suppose to be for a 6 month old. Please all that visit my blog, prayers and more prayers...They said it was a 60-40 ratio on this surgery. I love you my dearest Ethan.

Wonderful Day

We celebrated my dh birthday yesterday instead of Sat.
I have not done any sewing as I was cleaning, a bad word, lol, to get ready and cooking so today the house is clean and do not have to make dinner so I am a free bird to anything I want.
I think I will make tyvek beads in my "Working Studio". and will have to wear a mask or respirator, it is just to darn cold to work outside.. My "Working Studio" is what use to be my mold room where I kept all my molds, paints, greenware, bisque and did my ceramic pouring and such. We have slowly taken most of the molds (702) out of there and changed it over to my "working room" this is where I do my burning of textiles, making silk paper, fusion, painting, stamping, dyeing (but some in the kitchen/dinning room) and such..So all these supplies is out of my studio.

Nephwe's birthday

My gift for my great nephew Philip. He is autistic, his birthday is on my husband birthday on April 7 th. He love to swirl fibers all around and he loves light bulbs, so what better than putting them both together. I sent him a light bulb book marker with fibers at the end and my sister said he just loves it.. We, sister and I, do web cam mostly every day and now he will look at her computer and say "Aunt Lorraine", of course I just love it and also I can see him..and we will exchange faces..he is so funny sometimes. He is going to be 13 and has a mind of a 5 year old. Happy Birthday, Philip, my dearest nephew. I love you..Auntie Lorraine