So far, there are 20 items for the Earth Challenge. I expect more Friday. This show is open to Bagettes, Cakeeaters, and Running With Scissors members. This will be a humdinger of a show. Be sure you are included. You people are very creative, and talented.
Give me your entry by Friday, along with a check for $15, and an item the size of a greeting card, for sale for Food Gatherers. Remember there are prizes, too.

A hanging lamp my talented daughter Karen made. We mailed her sticks from our red twig dogwood bushes, she made this. Cool, huh?

My booth for the art fair today. It was a fun day.

The tags are made, the racks chosen, the boxes packed, and the car loaded. I am ready for the Running With Scissors Holiday Art Sale tomorrow. Come see us all at the K of C Hall in Berkley, on Twelve Mile Road. The show is open from 10 to 4.
The picture is stuff I have been making for this sale, and there is more.

I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving, and time to spend together with family and friends. Hopefully all the seasonal household preparations are done by now, and you can put your feet up for a while. Life is fleeting, memories last beyond your time.

This happy group at Two Twelve Arts, made Christmas stockings for Saline Social Services. It was the first gathering of the holiday. On December 5, come to the Holiday Art Sale at Two Twelve. Thirty artists will display a wide range of wonderful things for sale. And there will be free gift wrapping of your purchases. Do all your shopping, and let us wrap it up for you.

Silk Sunflowers, a new quilt. This is about 21" by 25". Number 339

This is the Cousin It scarf, with fringe.

Sorry for the blurry picture. I added sequins and a 3D leaf. Help! I can't stop! 338

Another wild and woolly Cousin It scarf. Number 337.

Alright, I couldn't stop. Eight more flower pins. Four have been sent to ABQ, four more go to Games Night friends. This is number 336.

I have a new die cutter, and I made these 14 pins today. Some are going to the teachers at my daughters' school, some to friends. I'll count this as only one, 335.

There are 18 pillows with faces, so the count is 334. They are Naughty or Nice pillows. They say "Naughty...I intend to stay this way", and "Naughty is my best behavior," as well as 16 more things. They are all different, hand drawn, and painted.

I had extreme amounts of fun today. It was so fun, it was almost toxic. I can hardly wait to share this fun. I made all these felt flowers, and more. And I'm getting a die cutting system so I can do it at home. I promise, this is dangerously fun. I'll call it all just one item, number 316. But wow, it was much more than one point of fun.

More collages, numbers 307-315. Almost there.

These are 5" square collages. Numbers 301-306.

The rooster, grouted. Number 300.

I just fixed the writing, so you can read them. These are not counted yet, until they are done.




These mostly naughty ladies will be little pillows, after they dry. This was a lot of fun.

Five new necklaces, bringing the total to 299. Whew! I didn't think I'd make it this far.

Three more purses finished, numbers 292-294. These are bigger, about 10" by 12" or so.

Here it is, number 291. It's about 8"square.

I grouted the poinsettia mosaic, but have problems with my camera interface. I don't know if it's the camera, or the computer. I'll try tomorrow. The grout is green. Number 291.

Numbers 286 to 290. Five more finished purses. The small ones are about 6" by 9".

One of these cornucopias is mine. It's the far right end. We made these in a class at 212 Arts, way fun. Number 285.

Hi, did you miss me? I have been working, but had nothing finished to show. Now I have 6 of the 10 purses I've been working on done. These are for the Running with Scissors Christmas Bazaar, Nov. 28, at the Kof C Hall on 12 mile in Berkley. Be there, and see all the wonderful stuff.

I spent almost the whole day cleaning out my fabric stash. With the stuff I gave away yesterday, there are 9 bags of fabric. This allowed me to put the stuff that was in bags in the closet, and in the corner, on shelves. So, I have a pile of African wax resists, stripes, dots, ones I dyed myself, 2 piles of Kaffee Fassett prints, 2 drawers of batik scraps, a box of sparklies, a box of banner fabrics, and more, organized and ready to use.
And I put some of the felt away in big boxes. There is more to do. I have to find a place to store the roving, and another felt box. The room feels bigger. I have a backache.

Sparkling Poinsettias now hangs by the front window at My Favorite Cafe.

I added the Three Days of Christmas to the show at My Favorite Cafe. It hangs in the corner of the south room.

The Sunflower on Blue is replaced by this, Gourds and Asters.

Turquoise felt bag, with very cool Corian button. Thanks, Margie! Number 278 for the year.

You saw this before he had a background. I'll count it and the poinsettia when they are grouted.

Some flash glare shows on this new Poinsettia mosaic. Might use greenish grout.

Three Days of Christmas, with 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. This will hang at the My Favorite Cafe show. number 277.

A new banner, birds with a quilt braid below, number 276.

I am the Featured Artist, at My Favorite Cafe, on Ann Arbor street, in Saline. The show will hang for 2 months, until the end of December. There are 29 pieces hanging, all are for sale. The north room, decorated in a Thanksgiving motif, has a Fall Flowers quilt, a banner, and more.

On the middle of the north wall hangs a Kettle of Leaves, with a Sunflower on each side. The Orange Flowers in a Blue Vase hang on the back wall.

Two Sunflowers hang on a dividing wall, in the Thanksgiving room.

Sunflower on Blue hangs in the north room, the Thanksgiving room.

A Rooster and a Blue Tree mosaic hang by the front window.

In the south room, the Christmas room, the Felt Squares hang right by the front window, on the wall behind the Rooster mosaic.

On the dividing wall hang two poinsettias.

In the little couch nook hangs the Holly Wreath.

These are on the south wall, along with the next two pictures.

The Bird Wreath, with mosaics next to it.

Closer shot of 3 mosaics.

Three new banners, made for the show at My Favorite Cafe. Numbers 273, 274, 275.