Tabletopper Quilted

Well here is another UFO done. It was a tin of square by Moda and pieced and sewn and machine quilted by me. It was a nice and easy fast and fun project.

Hope you like it too. It can be used on a end table or anywhere you would like.

High Desert Bead Society Round Robin

The High Desert Bead Society is doing this round robin starting this Saturday at our meeting.
Six ladies will bead on her and then we'll put their names in a basket and drawing the winning name to win the doll completely hand beaded. It should be tons of fun.

The girls that will be beading on her are:

Ruth Osborne, Dian Moore, Paulette Smith, Paula Euell, and Alice Perkins, all of the Prescott and surrounding area's.

Good luck girls in this fun project. I will be posting updates on this doll as it goes around.

Doll form made by our own Rhonda Kivett. Thanks Rhonda, great doll.

Back of Global Warming doll

And here is her back.

Global Warming Doll

This is a doll for our Global Warming Doll Bead along on my BAD yahoo group.
It was headed up by Robin Atkins, one of her dreams to do someday and thought we all would like to contribute to her cause...

The form was made for me by Susan Feldcamp, a bead friend from Mesa Arizona and is made of felt. It was fun to bead on felt, I never did this before. Thank you Susan for such a wonderful gift.

The bottom of the snow is all in various colors of white, in ll' seed beads

And the tips of the branches are called ICE in l5's, love those l5's for my dolls.

It was a fun project.

Alicia's Princess Quilt

Here is a picture of my g/daughter's Alicia's Princess quilt. Aren't all little girls into this Princess theme these days!

My daughter picked out the fabric and now have to wait for my turn with the machine quilter.

Alicia will love it for sure. Its smaller than a twin size, more like a throw for over her bed. The quilting will really really make this quilt. I can't wait to get it quilted.

Quilted table runners

And here are some pictures of two quilted table runners I finally got the bindings on.
I've had them for many, many, months, another UFO done.

Machine quilting by: Gwen McNallan, Prescott, Arizona

Progress on Rock

Well I thought it was time you saw some pictures of my Beaded Rock, which as you saw many posts ago, it really is my d/h's sponge he used to wash his car with.

Its going very slow for me because I hardly have time to work on this. But hopefully, by posting some progress pictures, it will keep me going.

Hope you like it, its great fun to work on and I have no idea where it all is going!

Rose of Sharon

Well I was just going to the sewing/beading room and looked at my flower garden and thought you all have to see my Rose of Sharon, its getting so tall and the best blooms we have had yet since we lived here, which is 6 years this past June. We have to keep wire around them because of the deer, arent they everywhere!

HAPPY 4th of July

HAPPY 4th OF JULY TO ALL OF YOU.

Please keep our soldiers in your prayers in these uncertain times.

Were going to a 4th of July party later tonight when the sun sets, listen to music there, they all play different instruments and then watch the fireworks.

Hope you all have a safe 4th of July.

Southwest Queen Head

And here is her head all beaded in l5's.

New Round Robin

This little Star will go with the Santa, we can send two items.
So Santa will have a Star to go along with him!

New Round Robin

Well its been a very busy week this week for sure.
This is a new Round Robin thats starting up and I'm sending this Santa. I love him.
The face was made by Maggie from my BAD Yahoo group and Rhonda Kivett make the form.
He will be gone for months and months and won't even be back for Christmas, sniff, sniff.
I hope he comes back looking like an "Old World Santa".

Applique Butterflies

And I was telling my long time friend "Hersheybar" about this project and she asked her applique group if they would make some.

Now just look at these, aren't they just darling.

Artists all over the world are making Butterflies! Makes me happy!

Nassau Appliquers, North Merrick, L.I. New York, way to go ladies, you did a great job too!

Butterfly Project

The High Desert Bead Society just finished up a wonderful special program for the Houston Museum.

In an effort to remember l,500,00 children who where killed in the Holocaust they are asking Artist to make butterflies. They will be a breath-taking exhibit when its done. The due date was the end of June but they are extending it, not sure how long, so there is still time if any of you Artists would love to participate. More details here: butterflyproject@hmh.org

Here is the picture of the butterflies flying to Houston this week. Most of ours are all hand beaded, some painted. Thanks again to all the members who participated in this great exhibit.

Sul's back

And here is the back of SUL!

Sul - my healing doll

Here is Sul, my healing doll from a class I took on my BAD yahoo group. She was a joy to work on for sure and I can't tell you how much I learned from her. You can read below in my blog most of why I made her and why.

But just to review a little, the sword charm is the knife that went thru my liver and caused me all this medical grief for almost a year now. Colors of reds in Sul for the courage to go on, the pastel colors meaning calm and to try and keep calm thru all this recovery, lots of greens for my new life and try and achieve harmony and balance in it, the frog for my transition back into real life and out of being sick, the garden theme and the earth on the bottom of her and roots for me to be nurtured, rocks leaves and the writing of her name on the doll for healing.

And a very special thank you again to our wonderful teacher Kristen Evans, a very very knowledgeable teacher to say the least, she truly has refreshed my outlook on life now. I want to continue in this avenue of symbolic teachings so to speak and work out more of ME thru my rock. I think that would be a great way to continue on with this journey. And the best part of all this, it was so FUNNNNNNNNN! Thank you, thank you Kristen again.

And I thought of something that my Dad told me years and years ago, "NEVER, NEVER STOP LEARNING DIAN, ALWAYS TAKE CLASSES ON SOMETHING, ANYTHING, YOU WON'T BE SORRY" Boy, those words sure ring true for me today!