cabin birthday breakfast...

i spent the weekend at our cabin with my bestie from junior high school...it was her birthday...we began our morning by picking and photographing some wildflowers...phlox, blackberry brambles, columbines, lupines and a little grass-like clump that sprouts a tiny periwinkle flower...perhaps a sedge...have yet to look that one up

using the handy little cedar egg timer, we broiled up thick slices of 9 grain bread with cooked bacon, apple slices, brie cheese and a little brown sugar, 3 minutes under the broiler...served with a hot cuppa joe...yummm...next time i'll add a little cinnamon

hope you all are well...we have a new floor so now we just have to reassemble our family room...can't wait to get back to my art desk!

xo

peonies and the scent of light...

ooo my preeecccciiiiouuuussss.....i love my peonies and they are so beautiful this year, too bad husband took away the little fences i had around them to hold them up so they are flop-headed all over the place....but yesterday they were covered with dew...so precious...

...from A Year with Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky...

THE SCENT OF LIGHT

Like a great starving beast my body

is quivering, fixed on the scent of light.

we are here, today, and it is a fine day...happy tuesday, dears...xoxo

please join us at kimmie's for a cuppa on tuesdays...

another washi love...

i spent the day working yesterday, outside, working hard...i have more yet today...i just wanted to stop for a moment to show you my glorious clematis...it seems ever more iridescent this year...i'm planting and mulching...whew...

i saw on the Omiyage blog that you can 'pick up' text with your washi tape...so i typed up today's entry in my "year with hafiz" and pressed the tape on, sure enough, i was able to lift off the inkjet print and add it to a page i will paint later...so very cool, i had to share...here is the link



more micro and tea tuesday...

...so here is the latest...butterflies...forgot i had this fabric, good thing i'm cleaning out!  deciding what to do with the micro bird...how wide should the edges be...i just ran around the edges of it with my sewing machine, zigzag, buttonhole...to catch the tiny edges...the butterfly pieces is about 6 inches square but as i'm going along, i'm realizing i can have more freedom in size this way...tiny stitches all the way to the edges .... or not ...

the bottom pic is for *~patty~* 

i have to wear 2 pairs of glasses to stitch tiny stitches...happy tea day, i'm off to (sneeze) walk the dog (sneeze) in the pollen air...everything here is blooming all at once...aaaaahhhhhchhhhooo!

then i'm off to visit my sweet mum...i'll pop round and visit later...xo

updated micro quilting...WIP

updated ~ birdie all micro quilted...by hand

well, i went to enlarge the type on my post and it disappeared...

since i lost my post, i have finished this little micro quilt...this was a great chair project for today...xo

feeling better today so i'll try to reconstruct my lost post...this piece is made from fabric by rosemary millette...i reversed the image and stitched on the back this time...for something different...this little guy was close to the edge of the fabric piece and so he ended up being about 3 inches squared...i basted the piece onto a backing and proceeded to stitch away....12 colors and i used single strand of floss...i counted about100 stitches in a square inch so you do the math...i am planning to sew it onto a little needle book for my traveling kit...xo 

i googled micro quilting and there is such a thing though sewn with a machine...i am excited to continue to work small...i love small...

the joy traveling tin...

 

 

 

 

...this is my tea post, a day late...a while back i received the sweetest pin cushion from kimmie...it has had a place of honor among my desk things, along with one i received from patty...i think i could collect pin cushions...i had a red tomato cushion when i was young...it had a little red strawberry attached which was filled with sand for needle and pin sharpening...remember those? 

any hoo...while i'm busy cleaning and sorting, i actually had the forethought to pack up a traveling art kit in an old suitcase...it is a leather satchel with the perfect interior full of elastic pockets and tie downs...i'm getting ready for traveling season and have assembled my artsy stuff and some embroidery projects...

i had my flosses in this tazo tin and today, i had an idea to attach the pincushion from kimmie onto the top of the tin with a strong magnet, (the cushion is embedded in a tart pan)...i pushed the pins & needles in as far as i could and counted them (just to be sure)...then i popped in a small pair of scissors and a washi label & i'm all set...
i hope to run around later and visit...hope you are all having a great week so far...the weather here has been gorgeous so i'm out and about all day, taking care of kid & dog, plopping in my chair and going to bed early...a good kind of tired...

xo

first patio tea...

 

 

 

 

 

 pink petal show
 little boy art filled with wired things
 migrated supplies that need to go back home
 cabin journal unearthed

warm & breezy here today, sunny and when the wind gusts up, the petals from the apple tree swirl down to the ground...what a way to start the day, first cuppa joe on the patio...

but there is work to be done...i'm on a roll...and then there is dog maintenance...today i don't mind...but tomorrow, with predicted rain, may be another story...still, she is becoming my very sweetest of companions...she turned one last week...they grow up so fast...

time to turn on pandora radio station, The Supremes...my work music

happy tea day to all, hope i can get around later to visit...xo