HALLOWEEN HAT CONT'D.

The hat is almost finished.  I just have to write some words (embroider them) near the pot and add bits to it and then my least favorite part is putting it together.

Here it is so far:

I also have purple glass leaves to add to the tree.  Just remembered.

Portraits 3 & 4

Here are portraits #3 & 4 for you to see.  Please copy if you feel you would like to use them.

spent the day from Dr. to Dr.  Eye Dr. in the morning then to kill time I went to TJ Maxx and spent some money.  I was pleased as I found a nice black skirt that is light enough for Florida but still okay for when I am here.  Also bought a cardigan chanel type jacket to go with it.  Harv shouldn't let me out of the house with time to kill.  After that to the dermatologist to have 2 spots removed and he found one on my back that he said bothered him more then the front ones.  Good job he checked me over.  Will know in a week if they are all negative or not.  If not he said it would be just bazel cell cancer and would be removed with no problem.

Girl #3 is labelled "the Day Dream" and # 4 is "H.R.H.".

HOUSE SALE CONT'D.

At the house sale I founda portfolio of 12 Gibson Girl photos by Charles Dana Gibson.  The 12 in the portfolio were made in 1909 for subscribers of Colliers Magazine.  They had 70.00 on it but because it was 50% of that sunday they were down to 35.00.  They are so lovely I couldn't let them go by.

They were made to be framed and I did see individual ones framed on Ebay.  I have no where to hang them but I can copy them and use them in CQ sometime.

I am posting the portfolio and the first two of the girls.

The first one is called "A daughter of The South".

The second is "Not Worrying About Her rights".

I will continue to add them until I have shown all 12. ENJOY!

The prints measure 11 1/2 x 16 1/4.



FAIRIE SWAP

Karla Nathan has great swaps that she puts so much of herself into.  The current one Karla has Fairies for the theme.  She is a great artist and she has made covers for a book and we are each sending 8 pages which will be shared so our book when returned will have the covers and 8 different pages made by others.  Karla does great watercolors and she painted the cover of the book herself and it is great.  She has near 100 participants and you can just imagine 800 pages spread around while she compiles almost 100 books and returns them to us.  What a gal.  Shealso has a great blog and etsy site.

She asked that we do our artwork on the front of the page and just put some sheet music, etc. on the back so no blank pages.  I did a fairy on the front and then used her sheet music for the back but added a little book that tells about Fairy rings. You can turn the page and read the story.  I sent mine off a good week ago so Karla should have mine by now.  I look forward to receiving my book sometime the end of sept. Her little Yorkie named Twinkie gave birth to 9 pups which is a huge amountfor this little dog.  They will have to hand feed them for the first while so the books certainly can wait.  Pups come first.



HOUSE SALE

My daughter and I passed a house sale a couple of blocks from me 2 Sundays ago.  They were just closing and said they were going to have it again the next Sun.  She saw 2 wrought iron love seats outside that she might be interested in but the price was to be reduced 50% the next week.  Well I told her I would run down and make sure they were still there and I did.  I went in and the house was still very full.  It was a large and expensive house and had some great things.  But I think they had never thrown out 1 thing in all the years.  It made me feel better about my stuff.  Well they still had them  and I told her so.  She said she wold run down later.  Well I should have just bought them because when she got there someone had bought just one - the best one of the two.  She needed two so that was that.  BUT of course Mother had to look around = the Mother that is trying to clear out her own stuff.
Well I found a pile of doilies and lace pieces and for the price I could not resist them.  I also bought a 100% wool Black Watch plaid blanket for $15.00.  I hd found one years ago at the flea market and put it in the Questers Auction which we hold every Nov. and it sold for over $100.00.  Quite a few of the gals have cottages in WI or MI and wanted it for there.  We will see how much this one goes for.

I also found a wonderful picture photo buy that I will show you in a future post.



HALLOWEEN CQ

Last year I made a witches hat for my daughter.  I had seen a couple made by gals in colorado when I was at the CQI retreat.  I started with a Simplicity pattern for a child's costume and just cut it a bit larger.  I am sure my daughter did not wear it but did have it on display with the Halloween books that we both made.

I decided to do another one for a friend and here are pics of the pieced hat and the completed one from last year.  It is a fun project to do.



HARV

This picture of Harv is the one I was trying to find to show you on his birthday.  It was taken last april at a PVA Bass fishing tournament that he goes to every year since we have had the home in Florida.  You can see my smiling happy guy better in this pic.