Princess Bubbles Creates

The students were so clever and creative last week!  It was a joy to be with such talented ladies.  Here are two more samples of their work.

Sumptuous surfaces indeed!  Would you just love to get your hands on these?  So yummy and full of potential!

Needless to say that I did not have the time or the energy to do any creating myself this past week.  I give my all when I am teaching as I want my students to have a really good time.  So here a couple images of what they created. 

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.