Renoir vs: another comparison of Picasso and Matisse

True Art

                                                       Thread Painting almost done. 

Top left and tail. In this technique you can't skip around or you have to do stitch "surgery". This is Sardine painted by Charles Webster Hawthorne, 1903, oil on canvas, Courtesy of the Jean and Graham Williford Charitable Trust]. I can't wait to send him to the DMA. Hope to finish before the fourth. 

Speaking of Art I went to the OKC museum  and saw Matisse.  Also Picasso etc.  Well here is Matisse's version of the Algerian Woman and Picasso's version:   ummmmmm also a touch of eroticism : but more of that tommorrow

Geez! E-books galore

More from the butterfly museum

For the last 10 years I have been following Quilting Arts TV  :  Well they have 17 seasons:  maybe longer. I started w/ season 1.   Every year Interweave the parent company has a hurt book sale.  I always put in my cart 10-15 books and then whittle it down to 5 or 6.  I can't rationalyze $26 books (now $30)  when I pay $2.50 at the library:  interlibrary loan for anything I desire.  So, of course tonite is the deadline for the hurt book sale where the books are 50-80% off.  Never ever had a book not in perfect condition. I have a wonderful library of quilt and mix media books I use all the time.  Constantly.      I only found 6 to put in my cart tonite.    I am  oh so very, very disappointed.  There were about 20 that I would have liked but they were e-books.  I like to smell a book, write on a book, dog-ear a book and hold a book in my hands.  I don't want to cuddle w/ an electronic device at nite.  Anyone out there listening???  Anyone have a connection to Interweave???? Anyone have a connection to the publishing world.  Please let them know I want to cuddle w/ books at nite.

just me:  Oh So Disappointed.

Wise Enough

I'm old enough and wise enough to understand that when you read a book you bring your own personal baggage to it.  I have always been able to escape myself and become part of the place and time I'm reading w/out judgement of being a modern American Woman:  However this book I'm reading...............is a world with no literature.  I cannot imagine that no matter how hard I try

Imagine a life w/ no electricity, clean water, or literature in a large city. Imagine unhealthy babies and no access to health care because you can't read or get a job: A world of superstition: A world where teachers and professors are killed: Khmer Rouge

Read: Rent Collector:Camron Rachel Wright
“Love Forever

If I were the trees ...
I would turn my leaves to gold and scatter them toward the sky so they would circle about your head and fall in piles at your feet...
so you might know wonder.
If I were the mountains ...
I would crumble down and lift you up so you could see all of my secret places, where the rivers flow and the animals run wild ...
so you might know freedom.
If I were the ocean ...
I would raise you onto my gentle waves and carry you across the seas to swim with the whales and the dolphins in the moonlit waters,
so you might know peace.
If I were the stars ...
I would sparkle like never before and fall from the sky as gentle rain,
so that you would always look towards heaven and know that you can reach the stars.
If I were the moon ...
I would scoop you up and sail you through the sky and show you the Earth below in all its wonder and beauty,
so you might know that all the Earth is at your command.
If I were the sun ...
I would warm and glow like never before and light the sky with orange and pink,
so you would gaze upward and always know the glory of heaven.
But I am me ...
and since I am the one who loves you, I will wrap you in my arms and kiss you and love you with all of my heart,
and this I will do until ...
the mountains crumble down ...
and the oceans dry up ...
and the stars fall from the sky ...
and the sun and moon burn out ...
And that is forever.”
― Camron Wright, The Rent Collector

after 10 years

After 10 years and 10 billion classes my Polar Bear Quilt has just bee accepted for Houston Quilt Show.  I remember the first time I registered for a class...It was the last week in August and I had just moved to Texas.  I picked out 5 classes.  Those days you had to wait for a letter to see if you got accepted (now its current time on-line).  Early Oct I had to tell my school pricipal I'd been accepted to 4.  I agonized how a newbie could miss a week of school.  Love that boss.  He let me go.  Also a shout-out for Jennifer Day:  that class I took in Santa Fe:  she taught thread painting.  I felt like I sucked her brain.  I love thread painting:  I turn on a talking book:  murder mayhem and zone out.

starting santa paws

Almost done with Sardine.  Have to fill in the background (green) under her belly before I finish her back leg and tail.  It makes a bubble if you skip around.  Tedious.  Been staring and staring at the pets haunches.  Trying to figure angle of fur for Sardine.  Finally took photos.

                                                  different angles: ummmmm

 back leg and tail:  then I'm done

More photos from this weekend.

Chimps would make a wonderful quilt.  I think I will send one of the cheetah's off to printer.  I use Sano Designs out of NY.

I can't believe these are my photos.

Spent the nite in Dallas. Dreaded coming home to my Lily. Neither Lily nor Maggie ate while I was gone. Liz ate so much she has diarrhea. The outsiders + blue jays went through a week of kibble. Lily brought out every toy from toy box. Moved couch away from wall (she's strong - looking for ball) and she brought out my underwear & sweaty t-shirt. I bet she was missing her mama. Went to butterfly museum and photo safari at zoo. Cathy our leader challenged us to have different photos than the person next to me.
more photos to follow.