If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you know that my mom and my sister and I go on a short trip together every year. Oh, we DO have fun! This year we went to New Orleans. It was fantastic! Intriguing culture, amazing food, and good company! We spent some time at the…
Rollins College, in Winter Park, FL has a beautiful campus on the edge of a lake, with huge oak trees. It also has Cornell Fine Arts Museum, which I visited for the first time recently. While looking for the museum, we ended up in an art building with a display of student work in the…
Surrounding Orlando are several quaint neighborhoods and Maitland is one of them. With sprawling oaks, brick streets, and old buildings, this tiny neighborhood is full of charm. Perfectly in step with the area, the Maitland Art Center sets the standard. It’s a cluster of small buildings and it was built in the 1930’s as an artists’…
I’m continuing to enjoy working on my quilt which was inspired by the beautiful scenery of California. Here it is at 14 blocks (plus one in-progress.) I’m really happy with the way it’s progressing. Check out how much the in-progress block, above, changed in the photo below. I think I probably sliced and diced that…
Remember the great scenery I saw along the coast of California? I couldn’t get those strong water colors out of my head and knew I wanted to make a quilt inspired by them. Amazing, right? And, yes, the water was actually that color. I wasn’t quite sure how I wanted to represent this idea, but I…
We had a wonderful visit to Santa Barbara for my niece’s wedding. Doesn’t she look great? She and the groom were very relaxed and happy. It was a very fun event! The next day, my sister-in-law and I headed off for a few days of exploring. Having never been in the area before, we found…