31 March, 2008

the end is in sight….

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* Thanks to some fantastic macro photography by my superhubby, I have finished some of the nicest handouts I have ever done for a class. (At least I think so.) It is hard to take photos of yourself doing embroidery. Not enough hands.

* We finished our taxes. TurboTax tried to tell us we made $332,000 last year (so not true) but we tracked that down.

* We cleaned the house from corner to corner. I would say top to bottom but we didn’t do the basement. That’s for another time. The main floor is spiffy and so needed to be done. Spring = muddy puppy feet! Still need to vacuum and find someplace to put a dining-room-chair-full of books.

* Walked and walked. It got up to about 45 degrees here and I wore my sunglasses. It was heaven. Our poor old dog was a little stiff when she got done with her first real hike of the spring. It’s supposed to snow tomorrow.

* On our walk got to see the grand re-opening of one of my favorite local fabric stores – Crafty Planet They moved to a new location (still within walking distance – hooray!) and the new shop looks fantastic!

* Off to bed.

20 January, 2008

beads

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One of the classes I am teaching this spring is embroidery with beads. Two local beads shops were having big sales this weekend and so I decided to go and get my class supplies. I like working with semiprecious stones so a sale is a great deal. As I started to gather up everything I realized pretty quickly that getting every color to supply every kind of favorite color was really not practical. So I decided my class gets a color scheme – earthtones. I got everything in the amber-green-blue sorts of colors. I think almost anyone can find something to like in this group and it made it so much easier for me to get nice combinations of sizes and textures.

Pictured above: carnelian, amber, tourmaline, labradorite, turquoise, peridot, bunches of freshwater pearls and crystals.

15 January, 2008

Teaching!

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I have filled up my spring with teaching gigs! Come and see me in Idaho at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts teaching wet & dry felting, beginning shibori and hand embroidery plus a teens shibori class and a kids weaving class. Or you can come to my “Starting a Blog” or “Opening an etsy shop” at the Textile Center in March and April.

12 November, 2007

Class samples

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I spent the weekend scrounging up and making a few new class samples for a series of classes I have been invited to teach in Idaho in April. I am thrilled that they have invited me. I wanted to expand my beginning embroidery class to include a little bit of bead embroidery too, so I made up these two samples to send off as photos for the class.

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