will be teaching another beaded button class at quiltworks / beads and beyond in bellevue washington on sunday october 25th, from noon to 3pm. i will let you know when it is up on their website:
quiltworks / beads and beyond .
this is a watercolor i made for my boyfriend, jesse. it is ~ 8 x 10". i matted it in a black double matte and framed it in simple black frame.
i taught a class yesterday at quiltworks / beads and beyond in bellevue. our project was a beaded house. this is mine in progress.
click this photo to go to flickr and see the rest!
yesterday was a quiet day. good. i went out to breakfast, then came home and worked on de-cluttering the kitchen. i later took a nap and read, then i had a massage and jesse and i had dinner, watched 2 episodes of dexter, and went to sleep.
today i did a bit more cleaning in the kitchen, finished getting ready for my class tomorrow, and have painted a bit, read a bit, and slept a bit. going out later to make some photo copies and things.
i also listed 4 new little pieces of art on etsy -- this is one of them.
home from rose city.. it was a really good trip. jesse and i drove down to portland on saturday morning. we met up with his friend jennifer and explored the saturday market a bit - it was fun but packed since it was their 1st weekend at their new expanded location. homemade coffee icecream with toffee bits for the win. then we wandered around a bit, and went to powells. i had never been there before - really! it was pretty cool. we all got some books. i think i could have settled for a good long while in the children's book room! i am a junkie for children's books. they have the best pictures, though!
then we had a wonderful dinner at mama mia's. they had gluten free pasta! and the broccoli, cooked in olive oil and garlic.
after that we checked into our hotel - which was awesome. a really nice room. it had a little kitchen, a living room area, and a huge comfy bed. it was near the water and nice and quiet. a good deal. after that we took jennifer home and saw a bit of her neighborhood -- Hawthorne, which was very cool. then off to sleep.
sunday morning we enjoyed the free breakfast - far superior to most free hotel breakfasts, then wandered hawthorne a bit - went to the yarn garden! they had the Diarufuran diakeito yarn i needed for the fit-n-flare trumpet skirt in knitting ligerie style - which i had such a hard time finding even online! so that was pretty awesome. (this is the skirt, by the way : trumpet skirt.
then we went to the rose gardens and the japanese gardens - so beautiful and peaceful! then dinner and off back to seattle. it was a long drive home and i was nodding off - so it's a good thing jesse was driving. it was a great trip and it was just SO GOOD to get away and relax. i really like portland and i liked jesse's friend and we just had a really good time. we'll go back soon and see her again when she comes to seattle soon. we already have a list of things we want to do NEXT trip. next time we will take the train. it's great to live fairly close to a fun city like portland.
class went well today. it was a good group - from beginners to experienced beaders and quilters. more quilty-sorts than beady-sorts, i think, but a good group and a good mix. the button in the middle is the one i made today during class. all my students seemed to enjoy themselves. i am not sure yet if next friday's class will have enough students to go through - i'll know in a few days!
someone was telling me today that my doodles would make cute dolls. well, they HAVE made cute dolls, though not lately. I made these 2 cat dolls for plush you a couple of years ago. As I recall they were 6--8" long each. The bodies are hand and machine appliqued and embroidered and the faces are hand embroidered and drawn with fabric pen. Meow!
