The Fab…Life!

Well I guess summer is over and I enjoyed it.  I didn’t go on a big vacation anywhere.  I stay close to home and we enjoyed some mini weekend trips.   We found  there was lots of things to do right in our own back yard.  We took the boys to the  zoo, the aquarium, lots of festivals and the Nature Center.   My goal was to stay within 150 mile radius.   We did that.   It was educational and we had lots of fun too. We didn’t make it to the water park this year.  The boys enjoyed lots of water fights  in the the back yard !  The bonus was – savings ($) and we were not drained like you can  sometimes be when you return from a long trip.   I worked on lots of projects by staying home…added bonus for me.  Now, with  school back in and the evenings turning cooler, my  mind immediately switchs to Autumn.  The quilt in the picture is the result.  This piece could be  a  nice memory/art quilt to add your own touchs with pins, mementos, photos, etc.  I  used Autumn colors  for this piece – thus came the name Autumn Jewels.  This quilt is for sale in my Etsy shop www.rainstudio.etsy.com . Over the summer most of my exploration projects were color studies using strips of fabrics.  I’ll be posting some of those pieces in the coming weeks.  Well I’m off to check on a piece I’ve got out back.  I hope it hasn’t blown away…exhale.

Yesterday while I was cleaning out some  quilt project starts, I came across this poppie one.   Seems, I forgot I had it.   Most likely I didn’t know what to do with it and got bored.  It looks different now.   It start off just three red blobs of paint against the blue background.  And its still three red blobs!  I decided to try for more definition.  So I got out the bleach and went to work.  I’m really  pleased with how that turned out.  Now I’m trying to decide if I want to  define it more with some black paint or proceed with some stitching.  Maybe just a little bit of bla….Well I just don’t know yet!   Exhale…

I could not resist sharing some of the beautiful fiber post cards, that I have received from all over the world.  The talented ladies that sent them are part of the Art4Mail group on yahoo.  We swap fiber post cards and form many friendships along the way.  These are from a recent Oriental Swap.

Oriental fan by Vicky Baker

Kimono by Darlene Maurer

Crane by kathy Letsinger

Dare to Dream by Judy Domke

Card from Susan, originally uploaded by Rains Studio.

Exhale….I am re-posting the photo of the beautiful card Susan Lenz sent to me. This was the trade for the Cyber Fyber Show. In error, I deleted some of my photos from flickr. What can I say! I am still a newbie to blogging. When I looked back through my archives, I found a few post with missing pictures.  And that was one of them. I guess it doesn’t hurt to look back at your old post sometimes. In my archives are a few post that are blank and they will stay that way. I do apologize for this error and I now know what not to do in the future……exhale!

“Memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past” -Grandma Moses-

originally uploaded by Rains Studio.

I was on a roll when making these little dolls. I’ll be using these in some other projects of course…… I’ve got my great nieces in mind for some sweet gifts.