spent some time in the studio this weekend

some pages for the field journal i've been working on using bits from our trip to Oregon and Washington - shells, driftwood, moss, slate, wire mesh, stones - more to come later on this project - i've finally figured out how i'm going to bind the pages together and have been working on the cover this weekend

These ribbons are so Tom ducks to get into the studio - so necessary - it was down while i was working on it - i had him take it down so he knew to watch out - and what do ya know - he goose-egged (aka knocked his noggin HARD) himself within 15 minutes - 

lordy that man is too tall for this world!

xoxox

P.S.    see the hand carved stamps i made too?  in the background in photo 1

Free Saturday

Yippee - it's a free Saturday!  I haven't posted in weeks because I've been so busy.  The best part of the past month was a trip to NY to be creative for ONE WEEK straight.  We go every year to this Fiber Art retreat, held at a SUNY, in the middle of nowhere New York.  And I mean nowhere - Karen and I went to buy a bottle of wine in town and found out the place to buy alcohol was the next town over - 10 miles away!!  Yikes!  Well it was a fabulous time, as always, even if we had to beg wine off our dorm friends ;)  Our class was heavy on design and color theory and I felt like some of it finally sank into my thick brain.  The four of us are using Art Quilt Workbook as our yearly challenge - this time I may actually do the challenge!!  I worked a bit on the exercises this morning and have narrowed my theme choice down to three.  I'm going to spend the rest of the day thinking about a color palette and also gather ideas about the three themes - then make a final decision.