Something About Nothing

I went to the Brigham City Art Museum this week to see their display of Art Quilts from Lenore Crawford . She does beautiful work! Unfortunately my camera battery was dead. I took photos with my cell phone but have found better images online. Every quilt she displayed was gorgeous but the flowers were some of my favorites. She used fabric, paint and beads to create masterpieces.

I am surrounded by some of the most talented people! July 24th is a big holiday in Utah when we celebrate Pioneer Day.  It is the day that Brigham Young and his company arrived into the Salt Lake Valley.  One of the big events is a parade.  The Stake I live in was in charge of a float and they did a fabulous job!  Just have a look: Can you believe this fox is carved from upholstery foam? Almost everyone in the stake had a chance to work on it.  My daughters helped put glitter on these flowers.  My talented friend, Carol Ritchie, carved these bunnies from styrofoam.  Look at all the incredible detail!  My friend JoAnn Nance did a lot of work on the float and also created this yummy lunch.  This is Wilford Woodruff.  Our stake is the Wilford stake, named for this pioneer.  This owl and beaver were also carved from upholstery foam.  Doug had to duck under the float to take care of Wilford's fly rod.  I love the details.  Just look at this adorable nest of eggs!  And the weaving on

Thank you Genevieve Gail  for the beautiful felt prizes! Sorry the photo does not do the felt pieces justice. They are all beautiful! I am delighted and trying to plot out exactly what I will use each piece for. And I almost forgot about my own giveaway. . . and the winner of the Sidewinder is (drum roll please!). . . #3 The Kirk Family! Congratulations!

26 Quilters participated in this Alphabet Soup Challenge Each participant made an 18"x 24" quilt about a letter of the alphabet.  The quilters were all so very creative with their letters.  My friend Kaye, took the letter K, for Kotex, a girl's rite of passage.  My friend Leigh's G stood for Gleevec, a drug that saved her life from cancer. I took on the difficult letter of "U" (bottom left) because my family loves The University of Utah.  Education is important to my husband and I.  My parents and grandparents never went to college.  My father never went past the 7th grade and my grandmother and her brother were the first to go to high school out of her siblings but she never graduated.  My husband's parents and grandparents never went to college either.  His mother only attended a few years of schooling because they couldn't afford to send her to school in China.  As a result we have felt the need to pursue our education and hopefully make our live

Do you remember Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits from the 1960's? My guess is that 80% of my readers don't remember the band because they weren't alive in the 60's but I'm guessing everyone has heard at least one of their songs around a campfire: See you have heard of Herman's Hermits! This past Friday, my friend, Dawn, my husband and I went to the Sandy Amphitheater  to revisit the 60's and the British Invasion starring Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits. The sun was so bright when we first arrived. Poor dear! It was very hard to see. But by the time of the first intermission the sun was setting and it was lovely. The show was FANTASTIC! You can tell that Peter Noone really enjoys what he does and puts a lot of energy into his show. I also thought he was very funny as well as still a great singer. My favorite song he sang was: or maybe it was:

I had 3 fun young ladies in my skirt class today. They made the Bella Skirt from Favorite Things. We all did very well considering that 10 a.m. was much too early for all of us.

Summer Campish Class was a success. We were few in numbers but all had a great time painting fabric with Setacolor  paints. Setacolor is a transparent fabric paint which can also be used for sun painting.  We would have sun painted but, despite it being the middle of July, it was raining during our first day of camp.  We used stencils and stamps to create our masterpieces.  And lots of imagination.   This young lady drew her own wolf stamp with amazing details. During our second day we played with resists using corn syrup.   And on the third day we used our fabrics to create string backpacks.  Janice left a little early and didn't finish her bag but the other three finished them and did wonderful work! We had a lot of fun and are planning another "play date" for this fall.