BUSY BUSY!

In between my oldest's graduation from high school 

(hooray!), 

end of school year concerts 

and craziness, 

and visitng in-laws, 

I managed to squeeze in 

some much needed me time!

I was leader of fun

at a very creative pin cushion party

at Aunt Mary's!

Everyone got one of these cute fabric baskets

I made from this tutorial

 http://ayumills.blogspot.com/2008/05/tutorial-fabric-basket.html

( I love the fortune cookie fortune, "Expect great things today")

Here's our end of class pin cushion parade!

Virginia's too cute flower...

and creatively improvised wrap around wrist cat...

Kim's delightfully whimisical little monster...

Carmel and Alex's clever creations...

and Katie's Vodou doll and monster 

with Carmel's Vodou doll and fried egg! 

If you notice, 

the pins in the cushions 

have shrinky dink bits on them!

Here's my crumby toaster oven

with angry eyes!

hee-hee

After class, I noticed these wonderful wildflowers....

great color combos!

Today, 

I took a doodle

 fusing class

with Laura Wasilowski 

at Quiltworks Northwest.

(She's the Dean of Corrections at the Chicago School of Fusing!)

We were given two pieces of Laura's hand dyes

and this fabric choice of lights and darks

and true colors (light givers Mary Lou style)

was a recipe for sucess!

Here's fun and super calm Laura explaining her 

fusing design process

and a little bit about her stitching.

Here's a link to her blog

http://artfabrik.blogspot.com/

These are her leftover bit creations.

Here's a quilt made by a worker who took Laura's class before...

YUM!

                      Here's a bunch of Laura's quilts that are for sale...

and here's some of the class's creations...

and here's mine...

a dandelion for possibility

 and the words

"trusting"

on the stem.

I am working on trusting...

everything is as it is meant to be

the universe has our backs

look for the angels

:)