Today I made a rooster mosaic. You can see the glue is still wet. I'll grout when the weather warms up. 75

Today I made a tumbler quilt for Safehouse. I don't have a picture of it, because there is no large space clear. But you can see one in my post on March 5. Just picture it in purples and pinks and orange. Number 74

Thses are fabric postcards. You saw the fish before, but I stitched it since then. I think I'll send out a bit of Spring to some friends. 73 for the year.

Pink Tulips is my entry for the Teachers' Exhibit at Two Twelve Arts in April. Just finished it today, number 69. the vase fabric is cotton lame, the rest are batiks.

Today I went to the Festifools FoolMoon workshop, and made a paper lantern fish. My daughter and granddaughter invited me along. It was a fun project. When this is dry, I may add colored paper to it. Number 68
Foolmoon is a procession on April 1st, at dusk, that starts at the UM art museum. All the lanterns will be lit up.

I decided to count one point for each of the cooking sessions this week. I spent a lot of time on it, and cooking is an art. So, now the count is 67.

A good friend of mine gave me a gift of a custom made apron. It has Day of the Dead on one side, and Chocolate on the other. She knows me well. I love it. Can't think of better themes than this. And it's great to have for cooking frenzies, like the last few days.

Yesterday, a friend and I went to Hobby Lobby, and I got 4 books of beautiful scrapbook paper. I don't do much paper art, but these are so beautiful, I couldn't resist. I will use some in Art Salad class. Then, because a good day should last as long as it can, we went to Creative Papers Online warehouse, in Ann Arbor. Our eyes are full of eye candy.
When I got home, I made a huge pot of Stuffed Cabbage, my mothers' recipe. I now have 8 frozen meals of that, and six frozen lasagna meals from Mondays' cooking session. Times two, because each package is for 2 people. I don't cook often, so it has to last a long time.
Full eyes, full stomach, full freezer, aahhh!

Today I used all my energy making lasagna. This involves shredding eggplant, sauteing mushrooms and onions, browning meat, cooking pasta, mixing seasoning into cheese, cooking sauce with meat, and assembling it all. Then it waits in the frig for a while. Then I bake it, and eat it.Then it cools, and gets cut into portions, and frozen for other dinners.
It isn't really a days' worth of work, but I have a good book to fill in the between time. My granddaughter gave it to me. It's The Atlantis Complex, an Artemis Fowl story by Eoin Colfer. I really enjoy it. Read the other Artemis Fowl stories first, it's a series, written for children.

I have changed the settings on my blog, to make commenting easier.
I'm up to 65 new art pieces this year, with this addition of fused glass.

This is what I made. I had to practice before class. Numbers 34 to 51

Things my class made! I taught a fused glass class this week. Good to be doing fun things.

If you go to Holland, Michigan, check out Shaker Messenger, a store filled with Folk Art, including mine! It's on River Street, just south of 8th. They have very nice pottery, wonderful paintings, by Irene Gates, and others. They also have a lot of Michigan foods!

Another new purse! I am having a good time. This has a magnet closure. Number 33

A purse with curvy flaps, my design. Number 32

My own design purse, made with Australian fabrics. Number 31

A circle purse, made from a pattern by Square Rose. I love the fabrics, aren't they pretty together? I also got fabric for 5 more purses. Those will be my own design. number 30

This Purple Chicken finished today, was started at the Baguettes getaway. The background fabric is quilted on all the lines, to enhance the chicken wire look. Number 29

Black Rooster, red feathers.
Chicken pillow. numbers 27, 28

Angelina fibers are used for the butterfly and flower. This will be the Art Salad project on Monday night, at 6. People will make a small sheet of their own combination of Angelina fibers, and put it on a fabric postcard. Number 26

A felted journal cover, made at Baguettes retreat. Number 25. This was way fun.

Two folders, for holding business cards i pick up at art fairs. Numbers 23,24

The border is dark red, with gold compass designs.

Last weekend, at the Baguettes winter retreat, Deb and I cut a million tumbler shapes, from scraps. With my half, I made this queen size quilt top. It's shown here in strips, and I am sewing the strips together today. It's actually larger than it looks. I overlapped the strips, to make it fit on the bed. Number 22

Hawaiian Holiday has moved to the Saline library. Please go take a look. It'll be there until the end of March.