Incisive Excellent Prune

“in order to be irreplaceable one must be different” Coco Chanel

"But not too different." Sandy Donabed

Thanks for all the e-mails about the choice of article that I was asked to submit. I have submitted a (new) #4 choice where I talk about enlarging toile print and redwork embroidery images to tell a story- and don't we know that telling a story is what I am all about! Anyway, I hope it goes because it would be great to write about something that I have so much fun doing. Plus I have enough examples to illustrate practically the entire magazine. Sigh. So, keep your fingers crossed for this project.

Geesh, I love toile fabrics... not necessarily used as room furnishings, the big splotchy prints are not to my taste for upholstery or drapes, or godforbid, wallpaper, but I love the little vignets nad love to make them into things that were never intended. And I love to use them in quilts after I have messed with them. I have been doing this since the old ALIENS quilt back in the late 80's, then again on the JACK AND THE BEANSTALK piece in early 90's, but my biggest brush-with-toile was on the MENOPAUSE quilt (I think back in '94 or so) where I made a Chinese man's image into me with the addition of some red hair embroidery, and made a French girl into my Chinese friend in my crit group by cutting off the blond ringlets and substituting a spikey black head of hair! On that one I also turned a couple of sheep into weird hybreds representing my very hairy dogs. This quilt was funnily enough sold out of it's first little show to a man from Japan (who paid me cash yen) so it's living in Kyoto now. Go figger, as they say.

Anyway, I think there's lots of material there for me to write about. And ruminate about even if it never gets to writing.

SOOOOO- here are some things of interest I have been collecting that aren't taking any theme so I am going to go ahead and post because my desktop is getting too cluttered. I guess the first three fall under a 'Hallowe'en' category, after that, who knows.

THORAX CAKE, certainly not for the faint of heart.

Spooky Glowing Water from the Make blog.



Amazing Pumpkin Carvings, and how to make your own.




Scale models of cities around the world

A cream-puff bride.

I am so happy I didn't marry a baker.

Bus Stop Shelter

Art from Garbage

And finally, in a quest for something a bit more meaningful, I will leave you with A Miniature Earth because even if you've seen it before it is worth another look. You're welcome.