Month: November 2010
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Tutorial: family silhouette
Here’s another version of the silhouette, only this time I combined several images to include the entire family. (Many thanks to my friend who let me borrow her wonderful family!) To create a family silhouette, I followed the basic instructions given a couple days ago except this time, when I took the pictures, I had…
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Tutorial: embellished silhouette
Yesterday I gave you a silhouette tutorial. Here is one example of how it can be personalized and embellished. This is my mother-in-law, Ellie. For as long as I’ve known her, she has dyed her hair red so I decided I needed to do a red silhouette for her. She was born in 1937, so…
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Tutorial: silhouettes
With Christmas just around the corner, I thought I’d suggest a potential gift idea. These are quick and easy enough to make one of each child or grandchild! I’m always drawn to portraits of any kind, but silhouettes can be particularly interesting. It is amazing to me how much a silhouette still looks like the…
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Ikea Hack complete!
Today we finished my tea center using the Ikea Forhoja shelves that I upgraded. I love it! Gives me a great place to keep all of our tea making supplies right above the water dispenser, which puts out water that is so hot I have to add some cold water right away. I’ve been working…
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Ikea Hack
Today we worked some more on those Ikea shelves that I painted earlier this week. I used Mod Podge to glue fabric to the front of the drawers and then sealed it with another layer of Mod Podge. Don’t you just love that fabric? For the first four drawers I used some of that luscious…
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AQS blog of the week
Today the American Quilter’s Society Facebook page voted my blog as blog of the week!
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Another excuse to get away
We just got back from a little get-away. Mostly we just wanted an excuse to use the RV one more time before DH winterizes it. We went to our favorite park which is less than 15 miles from home. It gives a chance to get away from normal everyday responsibilities and distractions. We go with…
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Sheer Whim Wins Third Place!
I just got the phone call! Sheer Whim just won a third place ribbon in Art-Miniature category at the 2010 International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas. You can see all the winners here.
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Blogger’s Quilt Festival
The International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas begins this week. This is one of my favorite shows to attend. It’s huge! It draws people from around the world. There are so many things to see that you can walk down the same aisle several times and see something new each time. You can see the…