Celebrations and Publication!

This photo is for all my dog fans. Oatie will be six months on July 2nd! He is getting to be such a good companion. He sleeps on the floor almost under our bed, follows me everywhere, loves to go to the beach and is a good rider in the car! This is his second haircut and he is too cute!



More Swap ATCs arrived last week. Thank you to Meri, Barbara and Marci from the cloth, paper, studio forum! I am busy now making 6" x 6" cloth doodles. I just sent off my painted journal pages for a trade. If you would like to join our group, go to http://www.clothpaperstudio.com/



Symbols of the Beach

My cause for celebration is 3 fold this week. I was published in Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine in the July/ August issue! WOO HOO! Thank you again to Susan Sorrell for the Symbols class! Today is my youngest son's birthday. Matthew is 25 years old and he proudly wore his Bluejays Baseball watch that we got him to the game tonight at the Rogers Center. My third celebration was for my son James' graduation from the University of Toronto Teacher Education. (OISE) He is now a Secondary School Teacher!



Finally I took a picture of my finished 'GO Green' Challenge that was an extreme challenge, using mostly leather and lace. Below are two of my painted journal pages.




My three Dotee dolls for the cps swap!

A graduation Photo: me, James and my hubby Ray. Got to love the coordinated green!

Until next week friends, I'll be on summer holidays!

As Promised

It is Tuesday already and I have begun my weekly blogging as promised.

I joined a new group last week suggested by my friend Anne Marie. Cloth Paper Studio is a group very interested in sharing fibre art and doing swaps. I signed up for the first 4x4 swap and I have almost finished one block of three! I love to do the hand embroidery and I have been without a TV project for a few days. I changed the look of my blog determined to learn how to use it. I still haven't figured how to do a badge from places like Flickr. I also set up a Flickr account: www.flickr.com/photos/donnafunnell I now need to learn how to use Flickr. All this technology goes on and on.

My first order of business with CPS is Pay It Forward. Yarngoddess is sending me something and I am sending some of my handpainted fabric to the first three artists that respond to PIF in my blog. Send me your snail address by private email after you have confirmed that you want to receive my fabric. Most of my fabric I painted is using the Colour Vie system of paints and can be seen in my quilt 'Intuitive Hearts'. This was the quilt that was auctioned off for the Breast Cancer Support Project. ( see previous post )

I have been working on Lesson 5 of the Embellish, Stitch and Enrich class I recently took with the Thread Studio in Australia. Dale Rollerson is the instructor and I really learned how to use my embellish machine in a creative way. I really love to hand stitch on my embellished fabrics. I highly recommend this online class. http://www.thethreadstudio.com/ I made many new friends from down under, the UK and the US. We started our own Yahoo group so that we could keep corresponding and sharing ideas and photos of our embellishing art. We also traded ATCs. I made 19 ATCs! Whew! But the ones I received in return were fabulous! I plan to display them in a fabric journal some day or a fancy box! I met Jenny who has a mini schnauzer and is a former teacher in this online class and we continue to email on a regular basis. I am including a photo of my favourite embellishing piece based on a Fred Williams painting.

Lots to do tonight, my small fibre art group 'Material Girls' are meeting tomorrow night for a Christmas potluck and sharing on the topic of threads. We like to do studio play dates together. Our last one was painting threads and cheesecloth with Setacolours. I am making a surprize for each of the Material Girls, something embellished and embroidered. I am a firm believer in RAK. (Random Acts of Kindness) I'll post a photo in Cloth paper Studios. clothpaperstudio@yahoogroups.com Until next week, don't sweat the small stuff.