Hope everyone had a nice Labor Day weekend. The weather sort of cooperated (at least part of the time) so it was a good weekend all around. I decided to take a break from the city yesterday, and drove to Canmore. When I got onto the highway, and started heading west, I realized that the…
Good afternoon, SAQA’s benefit Auction 2010 is just about a month away. There are 288 gorgeous works of art up for bid at prices from $750 to $75. We need to let everyone know! So I am doing my part by posting it here. Go to www.saqa.com, and click on “News and Events” at the…
So now I can tell you to keep an eye on the next issue of Quilting Arts Magazine (August / September 2010). I believe it will be on sale on August 3rd. There is an article by me titled “Creative Play with Discharge Paste”, and I found out the other day that I am the…
Ahhh! Vancouver … I decided to jump on a plane for Vancouver on a whim. Linda and Laura Kemshall and Catherine Nicholls were going to be in Vancouver for the launch of the new Thr3fold book and I decided to go. My friend Aarol met me at the airport and we had a lovely morning…
Well, I am going to try this for the third time today. I just lost this blog … again! So, now there are two of them out somewhere floating in the outer regions of the web. This is a new domain, and it has been somewhat frustrating to say the least. Oh, well … here…
Good evening, I am finally trying to get my life back together after a hectic couple of months. I did move into a new house, and did a lot of packing, cleaning, culling, unpacking, more cleaning, more culling. CQA came and went in the city. I had a great experience teaching, and hope to be…
It’s me again. Here’s the second piece I sent for the Quilting Arts Calendar Challenge 2010 “Flavor of the Month”. This one was not selected as a finalist, but thought you’d like to see it. It is called “This is my mother” and it is for the month of May, in honor of mothers everywhere:…
Good evening, Last week I received some good news: one of the two pieces I entered into the Quilting Arts Calendar Challenge 2010 “Flavor of the Month” was accepted as a finalist. The piece is 12″ x 12″, and it is called “Sopa Rosita”, it is the flavor for the month of November. My sister…
Good evening, I just wanted to apologize for the “Technical Difficulties” we are having with the blog, so you can’t see the photos that were posted in previous blogs. We are working diligently to resolve the issue, but we need to re-upload all photos, so it may take a while. In the meantime, I ask…
Good evening, I finally find a minute to sit down and send an update. I have been absent for a while, and if you check my blog from time to time, you might have noticed. A lot has happened in the last few weeks, mainly, we sold the house and I finally purchased one. I…
Good morning, It’s been a while since I posted a message. Life got in the way, and it seemed I had nothing new to say. Yesterday it was a beautiful day here in Calgary, so I got in my car and drove to Canmore. I hadn’t been there in a while, so I enjoyed the…
Good evening, When I was in Houston in October, my friend Marcela took me shopping to a very nice store (new to me) called Anthropologie (since then I have found out that they have opened a store in the West Edmonton Mall). I loved everything in it, and I managed to purchase a few things….
Please note that there are no photos available for this blog. Good morning from Calgary once again, We woke up today to sunny clear skies and “warm” temperatures (about 5 degrees Celsius as a high today – everything is relative!) and they are supposed to stay around that for the next couple of days, which…
Happy New Year and best wishes for 2010. The New Year has started and with it a new decade. My start was quite different this time around. I spent New Year’s Eve on my own,. Woke up at 12:01 when the neighbors lighted some fireworks. Went back to bed, and woke up really early to…
Merry Christmas from Calgary! This is the view from my window on Christmas Day, early in the morning. We had a wonderful time. The three kids were home on Christmas Eve, they came early to help cook and prepare for the evening. I picked Sabrina up at her friend’s at 10:00 a.m. and we went…