9 days to go!

Have you given up on me? Please don't...I promise to be back soon. And in the meantime...


9 days till wedding bells. Overseas guests are starting to come in, to-do lists are being crossed off, (although they are still quite long), baking and freezing, baking and freezing and the excitement is building up!

Last weekend Shiri, Shari (her delightful friend) and I worked on handmade this and thats for the tables, as well as baskets for the flower girls, (see above).

Here's a peek at Nina's dress. I cut the flowers out of felt and embroidered them with different colored floss. I added some buttons and sewed them carefully onto the dress. I had such a fun time with these flowers, making each one a bit different and yet keeping them coordinated. Nina is a very happy flower girl.

and now...


Surprise!!!!

With Alex's dedicated assistance, and in the midst of all the chaos we are bringing you two new additions to our How-to section! The first is a new color experiment and the second a detailed illustrated How-to make a pillow.

You will find these on our website in the How-to section. Print them out, enjoy them, you deserve it!

Take good care of yourselves and we'll talk again soon!

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I'm still here...

I'm still here...

After a long bout with bronchitis, which just wouldn't go away, I moved right into the "oh my, the wedding is just 2 months away!!" phase. Shiri and I quickly completed the wedding invitations and sent them out. She came for her dress fittings, and once the dress was ready, I started beading on it, and making the veil.





We still don't have anything to wear for Reid and myself. Nina's dress will undergo embellishments by me, and we need to get her shoes. Then the baskets for out-of-town guests and -

OK, I need to stop, I'm getting myself all worked up.

So, dear friends, I will be back to you again, promise!

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102°

Sorry for disappearing...I'm sick.

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Marching into March!

I know it's a cliche, but seriously, time flies! I once complained about how the older you get, the faster times goes by and a friend said, no, it's just an illusion. He then gave me an example that illustrates the illusion of time. You know how when you turn over an hourglass, at first the sand slowly pours down into the bottom compartment. It's moving at the same pace the entire time it takes the sand to pass through into the bottom compartment, but at some point, near the end, it looks as if all of a sudden it's just racing at a faster pace, blub blub blub and it's gone. See, it's just an illusion.

I don't know about you, but it didn't make me feel any better.

Anyway, my last post was on February 22nd, 2009 and I didn't even notice that it was the one year anniversary, to the day, of this blog. WOW!

A celebration is called for! In honor of our 1 year anniversary we have an extra special giveaway for the month of March, (BTW, congratulations to Taffy on winning last month's gift, the bracelet!).


This month it's a signed copy of my book My Point Exactly.

How do you enter the giveaway? Tell me about one piece of art or craft you've been working on this year. Even better, send in a photo.

The contest starts today and ends March 9th @ noon. So, what have you been working on this year?

It's only fair that I show you what I've been working on here at the studio. Some new greeting cards with my sisters in mind ...

I miss my sisters.

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This week's color experiment is a pastel combination. I'm not a pastel kinda gal but even I need to rest my eyes every once in awhile and play with something calming. It's a Colour Streams thread and I'm loving their combinations. You'll find the experiment in the How To section of our website.

Have a great, very great, week!

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Milwaukee 2009, again

I thought I'd add photos of the two other classes I'll be teaching at Seminar. The first is Let There Be Light, a class on painting and stitching a design with a message of hope. There are two colorways for this class.

Making Memories is a one day class which includes a photo album and a design for the cover of the album. Lots of fun! Three color choices.

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I've been reading your color combination descriptions and I LOVE them! What poets you are. Please keep them coming! Don't forget the deadline for the giveaway is noon on February 26th.

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Shiri is here for the weekend and we've been busy with wedding fun stuff; dress fitting, shopping for beautiful paper for the RSVP cards that we are making on our own, working on them till 2 am and loving what we made in the morning. Shiri has done her own invitation designs, drawn the motifs on the cards and found a reasonable printer to do them in letter press. They are gorgeous and mostly they are her. I don't think she'll let me show them to you just yet but I'll keep begging.

Now I'm sitting here, writing to you and listening to my girls play the game of LIFE. You can learn so much about people if you listen carefully. Shiri paid off her college debt the second she got enough "money". Nina just bought a trailer home and she's thrilled with it.

I'm going to have to leave you for now, off to designing the maps of Philly for the wedding guests.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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Milwaukee 2009

I love the name, Milwaukee. Milwaukee.

a n y w a y ... ANG has put the classes for the 2009 National Seminar up on their website. The photos always upset me, not because they don't do a good job, just because they are small photos. They have to be small in order to put all the classes up.

I don't know if I'm allowed to do this, but I'm going to anyway. A teaser from my A Year in Cards class. Click on the photo to get a real good view...

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February Giveaway! (and other stuff)

A bit late, but still February! So this time it's a bracelet. I made a series of these and they were very popular, so I made another batch. There are three left, this is one of them, and it can be yours. (Freshwater pearls, Swarovski crystals, gold plated beads on a satin cord).

What's the assignment? Describe your favorite color combination. But no Green and Yellow, oh no! I want: Green like the green that you see in the first blades of grass in the spring, but not too limey, and yellow like an over ripe lemon, with a hint of brown creeping in. Draw a picture in words. This should be so much fun!

The giveaway starts today and ends at noon on February 26th. Don't wait till the last minute, cause I'm so anxious to read your combinations!


and on to other stuff...

On Saturday Nina and I traveled to New York to visit Shiri. We had a marvelous time. Nina had a blast with Toby. We had a typical touristy New York day: riding the subway, playing the huge piano at FAO Swartz, a quick visit to the American Girl doll store and we ended with dinner and a movie, (OK it was take out and Netflix).

Here are the kids on the subway.

It started quite calmly, with just a glimmer of mischievous in the eyes.

Next came the sticking out of the tongue. I smell trouble...


Notice the drawings on their hands? Those are super hero tattoos, silly!



This is what it looked like 10 seconds later!

I love New York!

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Havana anyone?

Just a very quick note to tell you that a new color experiment is available in our How To section. Pay us a visit!

I'm off to new York for the day, what fun!

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so much to tell!

I have a list of things to share with you, none are related so I may sound a bit wacky. Oh well, it won't be the first time. Anyway, here goes:



* YEA! I will be teaching at the 2011 ANG Seminar in Columbus, Ohio. I will be teaching five (yes, 5!) classes but the most exciting of all is that one of the classes will be the Teaching Excellence class. It is a real honor to be chosen to bring this class to seminar. I will be introducing a brand new concept, very cool and has to do with color.


* Two of my jewelry pieces have been accepted to be featured in a most beautiful jewelry magazine. Can't say much more now but I will share more very soon.



* By the end of the week we will have two super items for you, our monthly GIVEAWAY and our weekly COLOR EXPERIMENT. (It seems I am trying to torture you all with these teasers, it's not intentional, truly)

* I can't do math. And you didn't tell me... I posted the BIG ONE WEEK SALE announcement on February 3rd. I then did the math and told you it will end on Feb. 14th... I don't know what I was thinking of at the time but I was certainly not channeling my second grade math. And you didn't say a word... tsk tsk tsk. There are three more days left so go take advantage of my ditziness.



* There is a wonderful Cezanne exhibit coming our way at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It's called Cezanne and Beyond and it will feature great works by Cezanne as well as works by artists who were greatly influenced by him. In honor of the exhibit I added fiber interpretations of two of his great works to this post . I haven't played around with my fiber interpretations in awhile, I forgot how much I enjoy them.

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