Jan's Art Showing...

On Saturday, Jan had a showing of her art at the Blue Nutria in Clatskanie, Oregon. She was one of about 10 (mostly local) artists present. She had her art backed with black and it just made them pop. Each piece is a little treasure in itself. April and Karen visited her first...earlier in the day. Kit and I came about 3:30 after Jessi and Matt had taken me for a mother's day lunch. Jan's display was perfect! She is even inviting one of the artists to visit us on Tuesday. We will be looking forward to that. She is the same artist that created the beautiful needle felted scarf and cuffs that Jan wears. Jan was able to sell one of Lyla's altered books, so that will put a smile on Lyla's face for sure.

Jan made the neatest business cards to have at the showing. It had all her info on one side and a little piece of art on the other...so unique.

The one piece of art I took a pic of is so bright and beautiful. I love it! If you double click on the pic of Jan, you can see the other pieces she brought to sell. She also brought a wall quilt with her. It was a wonderful display.

Mugging at Pinky's

April bought us all mugs that opened up so we could decorate the insides of them.  The above photo shows the creative results.  From left to right are Jan's, Mary's, Karen's, April's and Pinky's.  They all turned out great and we had fun creating them.  Thanks for the challenge, April!

Mary was busy making hats on her little knitting loom.  The hats are for premature babies and she is donating them to a hospital.   Darling little things, Mary is quite the darling too.

Pinky's cat Louie looked so fetching as he lounged on the chair I had to snap a picture of him too.  All in all it was another fun day with the S&B gang. 

Hi Gabie...

Here are the hats I did get done on Tuesday with the girls. They are fun to do. I am donating them to the crisis pregnancy center in Astoria, OR.

Tues At Pinky's Coming Up...

Hey, I started a baby hat for the Pregnancy Center with a loom I traded for on Mary Jane's Farm Barter site...Pretty fun!

April Has A Challenge For Us!

April told us she would have a challenge for us on Tuesday. She presented us each with a coffee travel mug. It pulls apart so you can decorate the outside of the cup any way you choose. We are to each take these home this week and come back next Tues with our transformed mug...very fun!

The mug April has in her hand shows what it looks like when the colored paper is removed.

The next pic shows the mugs as we received them.

The bottom pic shows Jan's addition to her jean jacket. She did a small project quite some time ago and has added it to the jacket. Make sure to double click to see the detail of her work.

We will all gather at Pink's next week to present our mugs to one another.

Tuesday at April's...

Another great Tuesday...Each of us were working on different projects this week.
Pic #1 is Jan working on her multicolored rag rug. The combination of various colors really makes this one "pop."
Pic #2 is Pinky working on her rag rug in burgundy.
Pic #3 is April's cards that she was working on. We have some excellent card makers in our group.
Pic #4 is Karen's postcard making project.
Pic #5 is Mary's project of making some hot pads for on the table. She did the sewing and now will be adding a back and a loop to be able to hang it up.

Don't forget to double click for a close up of their work.

Star Fish Ornaments...

We all brought beads and tools to work on ornaments. Double click on the group pic to see the detail. All were so different. Some of us made two of them and some of us made a couple pairs of earrings. I meant to take a pic of April's earrings and forgot, so April...if you are reading this, you might post a pic of yours.

We all had such a great day. Marlene learned first hand what a crazy group this is.

I got a kick out of Maddie. She asked how often we meet and we said every week, when possible. She said she only sees her best friend about once a month. In my mind I was saying, we are blessed :>))

Next week we will head to April's and start a mug challenge that she has for us. No doubt, it will be fun! That's what this is all about...art, friendship, and laughing...

The bare pic of the star fish is what we started with. These cute little star fish are from the Phillipines. Mary had a bunch of seed beads for us to use. We all brought extras and beads to use for the project. I think you could do this with any kind of star fish. April has an orament trade for Christmas in her family...so she is one step ahead!

OK, April...I know the beads are not in the proper rainbow logical order :>))