Princess Bubbles Creates

I taught Sumptuous Surfaces to eight awesome ladies this week, at the Wellington County Museum.  The creative energy was fabulous.  The openness and sharing attitudes were tremendous.  The joyous spirit was shared by all.  Check out the class photo!  Can't you just tell the workshop was a blast!  Too fun!

I love being a woman!  I have been told that I am quite feminine but I have never really thought of myself as really feminine.  I was a tree climbing tom boy growing up.  My wedding dress did not have one stitch of lace on it.  I love being the mother of sons so that I didn't ever have to deal with long hair!  So isn't it funny that today I purchased all these divinely feminine fabrics and trims?  I guess the older I get the fru fru feminine I become!  I can't wait to play with my pretties!

Last Friday I thought I should add something to this crazy quilt block.  Then I thought that's crazy I have tons of time before Wednesday rolls around again.  Well, I decided to go with my first instinct (which is almost always right).  I added  the bead trims in the upper right of the top photo.  I also added a swarovski crystal butterfly to the ribbon flowers.  I am so pleased to be making progress on this!  It feels good.

Okay, I definitely struggled with this stitch.  I thought perhaps if I looked at some different instructions that would help.  There were no other instructions to be found.  Getting beaten by an embroidery stitch makes me feel like a dork!  Normally I would persist until I mastered it.  I just don't have time for that this week and frankly I don't like the stitch well enough.  It is highly unlikely that I would ever use the stitch so why waste my time.  We can't love them all.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of going for a bit of a hike with a dear friend.  It is lovely to have a friend that also likes to have a camera in hand.  Going for a hike with a non-photographer isn't nearly as fun.  They don't always understand the constant stopping to catch an image.  I saw some remarkable spider webs yesterday.  It was quite difficult to capture a good image of them as there was a lovely breeze.  This one isn't bad.

I hope this works.  I made this slide show for my photography club.  Unfortunately we couldn't get it to work on any of the computers at the club.  So I don't know if this will work on my blog.  It does work properly on my computer so we can hope.

I am really glad to be participating in the work in progress Wednesday at http://www.pintangle.com/    I know for certain that I would not have worked on this quilt in the last week had I not been participating.  Having a deadline really helps me.  I added this plated or folded ribbon to the block.  I wish I would have been able to add more but one thing is better than nothing.  It is a step in the right direction.