WIP WEDNESDAY

Ahhhh...

a "real" beach on the Pacific Ocean, 

not a Puget Sound Beach.

Puget Sound beaches are fine, 

but they don't

make my soul sing the same way.

I used to joke that I ended up living here,

 in the Pacific Northwest,

 because I had been wishing for islands and beaches.

Now I've clarified the wish

 to include

 tropical weather,

palm trees,

and shell encrusted soft sand beaches! 

All that said,

Seaside and

Cannon Beach

on the Oregon Coast

are wonderful

wide and flat stretches

of clean sand

and beauty!

Cannon Beach has a superb quilt shop 

called Center Diamond

right next to a fabulous

glass blowing studio/gallery.

I used to take the kids here when they were little

and often wonder if that is why

my oldest is now glass blowing.

We lucked out with

very low tides

warmish 50 degree weather

and,

unbelievably,

not much sun but also

NO RAIN!

Ooohhh....

a dream house!

Seaside Brewing

had fine burgers

great service

and this most delightful philosophy!

I've been taking some art classes 

at our local community college.

In the last class,

we had a section on 

surreal art

and I found Magritte's works

to be 

fun, light hearted, and curious.

This particular work

references the idea

that the goal of painting realistically

was no longer a goal 

because the artist is not recreating a realistic pipe

the artist is creating a painting of a pipe!

So....

since I am only creating 

a quilt of a cow...

This idea brings me to my WIP.

A Mary Lou Weidman cow

from her book Out of the Box with Easy Blocks.

(a great relaxed easy to follow pattern)

I need to add some face

with big eye lashes?!

and the words 

"This is not a cow".

So much fun,

I feel another cow in my future.

Moovelous!

I am linking up with

http://www.freshlypieced.com/

for WIP Wednesdays!

Check out what other creativity is out there!