Art & Quilts

  • Family Tree

    I have been drawn to trees….Artful Trees, Trees with buttons for their leaves, and whimsical looking trees….so, I began creating a tree.  This began right before my father died.  I loved the background, my hand-dyed fabric, and I called it… Continue reading

  • Art in Progress…

    What I did on my day off.   I completed the background of another beach scene….I loved the way the colors worked together. The bright white spot in the sky is the way the dyed fabric came out.  I like… Continue reading

  • Art

    I unplugged from my life and my husband and I took a long weekend to Door County. The weather was Fall…temps near 40 and climbing up to 50…with strong winds off of Lake Michigan.   Our first day we sat… Continue reading

  • Women’s strength!

    ‎"WIND is like a Well. Sometimes we come to fill it up….and other times we come to get filled."   An-Gel Kenneally I love the creativeness that flows.  How a room full of white paper is transformed. How each drawing has… Continue reading

  • A Sunday Full of Feelings!

    I have a blood clot in my varicose vein. On Tuesday, they gave me an antibiotic, due to the redness around it.  I proceeded to get very sick…a negative reaction to it. So, I did the other two things the… Continue reading

  • Avoid the Pain.

    In the "Untethered Soul – The Journey beyond Your Self" By Michael Singer…he writes about how our inside fears determine our life. "People end up using their relationships to hide their thorns. If you care for each other, you are… Continue reading

  • Artful Things!

    Tonight at WIND we painted with Pastel Chalks…from a women who was an artist. Her daughter shared her with us tonight…as well as her artist tools.  I hope her spirit was delighted to see them out of the box and… Continue reading

  • What I Love to Do!

    Another Art FULL Sunday!  I woke up to grey skies and muggy temps.  I went down in the basement and began sewing.  Here is last Sunday's dyed piece with borders.  I loved it as I sewed it, but now standing… Continue reading

  • We All Get to Play!

    And so the WIND began…  It was perfect.   Inspiration, words, images, ideas, women, conversation, creativity, connection, visions, self, expressions, friends…. In comfortable ease, we cut, we glued, we read, we searched, we found, we pasted, we listened, we talked,… Continue reading

  • Organically Like Art.

    Tonight is the first meeting of WIND.  I am excited.  I have no idea how this will go, where it will bring us, but my intentions are for it to be a mentoring women's group, with lots of action.  … Continue reading