On one of my many scavenger hunts last week I found a bag with all of these rolls of cool Mirrorflex tiles. Each tile is about 1/4 inch square and is really sticky. I searched online but it looks like this company is making large sheets of this for walls and back-splashes..which would be cool.

I’m not sure how it will show up in an art quilt but I’m glad to have it in my bag of tricks.

I don’t have any pictures to share today. This is only about words and feelings and the place I find myself in my life.

Last year my mother passed away so there has been much time spent with my father being his sounding board for where he finds himself in his life. I am thankful that I have been able to be there for him, even though most of the time it is long distance. I am grateful that he was well enough to travel to Denver with Ron and I last summer to visit my oldest son’s family and our newest [at the time] grandson. I am thankful that he was able to spend a few weeks with us in Arkansas over Christmas and New Years. His health has taken a decided down turn so I don’t see any more trips together in our future.

I had the chance to spend a few days with all of my children, their spouses and all the grandchildren this past summer. We got to see the newest grandson then.  That may not seem like much to people who’s families live close, but mine are scattered to the corners of the USA and sometimes corners of the world. I am thankful we all were able to be together at my dad’s. It is a rare occurrence to find us all under one roof.

It am thankful and grateful for a husband who is just as likely as me to throw caution to the wind and take on new ventures. And I am blessed that there always seems to be enough to eat on the table, health care expenses are paid and there is enough money in the bank to care for all our basic needs…and a little left over for those spur of the moment things that make life so interesting.

I am thankful for 3 small fur babies who wake me every morning with slobbery kisses and then cuddles on my lap after their morning constitutional.

And most of all, I am thankful and grateful for all the friends and acquaintances I have met online through groups that I belong to. Like pen pals of old from grade school, these people play an important part in my life.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you as you count your own blessings.

 OMG…this is what my studio looked like this morning after installing a picture window in the north facing wall.  Be still my heart…no more fighting to find the right light so I can simply have task lighting if I need a little help for my aging eyes.  After the wooden framing is painted I can put things back into place so I can play. What a joy it will be when the rose of sharon blooms outside my window.

I had resisted a window in the room since I didn’t want fabric fading. Boy was I wrong! I can keep the  covers pulled on the shelves to protect the fabric. But I need the drapes open to put joy in my heart and light in my studio.

Here are a couple of the pieces I am shipping off tomorrow for the new Texas Quilt Museum. I am sending 4 total pieces for Karey. I hate that some people are making negative comments about the call for donations. If you don’t want to donate… don’t.  I think it is a tremendous opportunity to help the museum and to get a few of my pieces out from under the bed and into the public eye.

This was made for the Quilting Arts magazine’s Rock On Challenge a few years ago. It is all silk with hand quilting and embellishments. It is now mounted on a 12 x 16 canvas that has been painted and textured to enhance the quilt.

This piece is  11 x18 and was an experimental piece made in a workshop with Lucky Shie at Arrowmont Craft School in Tennessee.

I think our diary theme that day was ‘eggs’. Certainly not my normal way of working.  One of the other pieces from Arrowmont is posted on this blog. It was turned into a  baby quilt for my newest grandson Tristan.

I am also donating a more traditional watercolor technique topiary quilt hanging and the “Roy Orbison Memorial Highway” that was in Quilting Arts magazines. You can see a photo of that on the side bar.