Embellished Postcards.

These two cards were made for a trade with my Fibre Art Traders group on Yahoo. The pink one is titled"Queen Rules" and the fish one is one of my favorites.....I love this subject.. Maybe I was a mermaid in another life..:-}

There is something that facinates me about seeing a picture of a single piece of fruit.. These I did with my needle felting machine .....I love the black and white background.

This picture inspired me and here is my interpretation. I was very pleased with how it turned out. I used my embellisher machine to needle punch the base colors of the sky and the earth, then I free motioned with threads the trees and then added more wool rovings on the trees and needle punched those areas with my embellisher.

Dyeing To Have Fun.

I was wanting to do some more hand dyed fabric and this was such a fun day.

This particular piece looks like a face , at least I thought so!

This assortment was in greens. I do a lot of applique and these pieces are perfect for leaves and stems. The color doesn't really show up here very well but it is a pretty mossy green.

The fabric is put in plastic bags with the dye and then laid in the sun to begin the curing process.

Here we are playing!!!!

The dyes which are in powder form are mixed in an area by themselves since each speck of dye is VERY powerful. Gloves and masks are essential when mixing up the colors.

Here are the basic colors. and then differenty colors are mixed to-gether to get other colors...

Here we are getting started.....

I'm the one wearing the mask and the yellow gloves!! heh heh...

A good time was had by all.

Comfort Dolls

I have been wanting to contribute to Pat Winter's Comfort Doll Project for a long time but life got in the way!!!!

Well I finally had a chance to work on some dolls and here they are....

Beading dolls is so relaxing and I enjoyed every minute. I hope to do more in the future. It gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling to know someone somewhere will hold one of these dolls and know someone out there loves and cares about them......

Thanks Pat for this opportunity.

A Fun Time at Retreat.....cont'd

The machine I brought to sew on was my very first machine purchased in 1956, a Singer Featherweight. It is one of a few that has an open arm....It still sews like a little work horse and is perfect for travel....

This was my project ....a postage stamp quilt. A picture of the finished quilt above.. The squares are 1" finished. INTENSE sewing!!! I went as far as I could and then got out my beads and worked on an angel doll for

Pat Winter's Comfort Doll Project

Decisions, decisions!!

Heather made this quilt to send overseas to the soldiers...Each one of is going to do one eventually, and they will all be different.... This one has the canadian flag in the centre of the log cabin... Very effective in the red and white.Hopefully it will bring comfort to a soldier far from home...

Fitting time.....

Karen made each of us the cutest aprons vintage style.... Aren't the the cutest!!

We sewed late into the night.... the fun just went on and on and on and...........

This was Heather's food contribution.... a Thai Salad..... It was sooooooo yummy...

I meant to get pictures of everyone cooking but I guess I got side -tracked!!!

I think Heather has inhaled some spices!!!!!

Here's Carol getting her meal ready. It was a wonderful Shepherd's Pie.......

Karen made a curry with pork medallions.... soooooo good.....

and I made a lunch of coldcuts and potato salad.... with Smore Bars for dessert!

Karen was a busy girl in the kitchen making us eggs benedict for breakfast one morning along with fresh fruit smoothies!!! Oh My!!!!

Here's Karen with the pincushion I made.

and Carol with hers.....

and Heather with hers!!!!

Here's me opening a gift.... Being the photographer, the shots of me are scarce!!! Just as well. .....Since I was sick and now on the Prednisone I look like a chipmunk storing nuts for winter!!!!!!! hee hee

One of my gifts was a tote bag .... I think Karen likes hers!!

and Heather looks happy!!! We are all tote bag crazy!!!

I think Carol liked hers too........

ARE WE GIRLS SUPPOSE TO BE HAVING THIS MUCH FUN??!!??!!
YES....YES....YES......

This is what the place looked like when we arrived...Didn't take long to change this scene....

Well that's all folks...

I hope you enjoyed your visit...... Please come again....

We've arrived and now the fun begins.....

I'll give you a peek at how it looked when we arrived..... all neat and tidy ... and then we unloaded our stuff and got going!!!! Woo Hoo!!!!!!

A Fun Time at Retreat

Hi everyone,

Thought you might like to see what we "Mellow Yellows" do when we get away on our own...

This place is a little bit of heaven for us and has turned into an annual event for the past few years. We love our time to-gether here. It is so quiet and peaceful, far from the maddening crowd. There are many different buildings on the property and are spread out over many acres. We always stay in the "House of Prophet" which suits our needs. We bring gifts for each other, each person is responsible for making one meal, and we have time to rest or read or just daydream!!. Of course we bring our sewing machines, projects to work on and generally have a wonderful time to-gether.I feel so blessed to have these women as my friends. They mean the world to me.... so come on in and check us out!!