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September 20, 2012, Barb's Finished Christmas Quilt

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September 20, 2012....My sister-in-law made this beautiful Christmas quilt. Here it is complete with the binding on it. The top picture shows the backing folded over the front. You can see the quilting clearly in the red backing material. That was done for Barb by her niece, Sheryl.

The bottom picture shows the finished masterpiece. I'm not a quilter, but I have learned that great artistry goes into assembling the block pieces by color and shape to create the final beauty.

September 14, 2012, Quilting a Christmas Quilt

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September 14, 2012....Barb sent this quilt to her niece (my daughter) from Idaho for her to quilt on her room size quilting machine. The cat enjoyed it first. :)

July 23, 2012, Barb's Potholders

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My sister-in-law made these cute potholders for their travel trailer:

July 12, 2012, Seat Belt Covers-Padding

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July 12, 2012....My daughter made these lusciously soft, beautifully embroidered, seat belt covers for my car:

May 19, 2012, Baby Girl Outfits

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May 19, 2012....Sheryl made this adorable outfit for a niece who is expected to arrive in September.

It is sized for a 6 month old because newborn babies always have more clothes than they can use before they outgrow them:

May 12, 2012 New Doll Outfits

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May 12, 2012....Sheryl made these lucky doll some very cute new outfits:

February 7, 2012, God's Art and Embroidery Art

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February 7, 2012....This is my cat, Lama, (God's handiwork) laying between a pair of beautiful hand-embroidered pillow cases:

January 29, 2011, Barb's Creative Non-breakable Frames for RV's

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January 29, 2012....My Idaho sister-in-law, ever the creative one, is decorating a new Recreational Vehicle that she and my brother have recently purchased.

She wanted to make it just like home with family pictures in it. However, she was afraid an ordinary glass frame might fall and break. So here is the new frame on the refrigerator of their new RV -- made with a beautiful fabric. (And notice the beautiful babies.) You can get a better view by clicking on the picture to enlarge:

January 28, 2012: Assembling Julie's Quilt

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January 28, 2012....My daughter is assembling the squares in a quilt that she is making for her daughter. The picture can't capture the deep richness of the colors or the complexity of putting the squares together:

January 11, 2012....Crocheted and Quilted Flower Basket

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January 11, 2012....My daughter won this beautiful crocheted and quilted flower basket at an Alzheimer's fund-raising quilt auction:

This is what the artist wrote:

Width: 10" Length: 8"

Designer: Original design

Materials/Techniques: This was a dresser scarf that I re-made into a quilt. It has a lovely and colorful three-dimensional thread crocheted appliqué, machine quilting, a batik piping and a batik backing and binding.

Artist Statement: This quilt is made from an estate sale find - someone worked very hard to make a dresser scarf and I wanted to give it a new life as a Priority Quilt. The workmanship in the thread crocheting is beautiful and deserved to be seen again!

Dedication: To my Dad, who we lost to Alzheimer's on December 14, 2010.

December 28, 2011, School Fundraising Quilt

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December 28, 2011....This is a quilt that Julie made and donated for a school fund-raiser. Each block contains hand or foot prints of the second grade students. It was a big hit and the moms and grand-moms bid it up to a very nice price. :)

December 22, 2011, A Family Christmas

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December 22, 2011....This picture is from a family Christmas celebration. My daughter is showing off her new toasty warm slipper-boots.

December 16, 2011: Outdoor Christmas Flag

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December 16, 2011.....This is the really cute Christmasy yard flag that my daughter created for me. It is hanging on my patio:

December 4, 2011, Appliqued and Quilted Christmas Gift

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December 4, 2011....This is the appliqued and quilted Christmas pillow that my daughter made for me:

November 26, 2011, Show Dog After the Show

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November 26, 2011....This is a gorgeous Yorkshire Terrier show dog named Havoc. He is wearing his satin coat that is made so that the shiny side fits next to his fur to help prevent knotting.

My daughter made the beautiful coat for Havoc, whose "mom" is a friend, and soon found she had more requests for the darling little coats than she had time to create. (She also made that comfy red bed for Havoc.)

Obviously, it was a big day for Havoc and now time to crash. :) Please click picture to enlarge.

November 23, 2011, Tiffany-Style Lamp and View From Living Room

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November 23, 2011....This is the Tiffany-style lamp that I made in 1987, just two years before the 1989 earthquake. Miraculously, it did not go over and break. It is now fastened to the round table that it sets on, so the whole table would have to go over or the house would have to collapse for it to break (God forbid).

This photo was taken looking out of my living room on to the deck and the Santa Cruz Mountains beyond on a cloudy day.

This was the most difficult lamp that I have ever made. However, I have the pattern, mold and glass to make the Tiffany-style cherry blossom lamp. The question is, will I ever actually make another 2000+ piece lamp. :)

November 20, 2011, Dolly and Tiffany Lamp

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November 20, 2011....This is Dolly and the Tiffany-Style lamp that I made. Dolly was a gorgeous and utterly devoted Himalayan Cat. She lived for thirteen years but succumbed to kitty-asthma this March. I sure miss her:

November 18, 2011, Barb's Christmas Quilt

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November 18, 2011....My "Idaho" sister-in-law made this beautiful Christmas quilt.

She always gets a big head start on Christmas. :)

November 6, 2011, Handmade Serving Dish for Julie

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November 6, 2011....This is a small serving dish that I made for Julie. The clay is rolled out and thrown over a mold. Then the design is added and it is bisque-fired, glazed, and finally high-fired in the kiln. (The picture is of my beautiful mother when she was a young woman.)

November 2, 2011, Frog on Tomato

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November2, 2011....On the subject of tomatoes, my daughter took this cute little guy living in a tomato bush in her garden last summer:

October 30, 2011, Gardening Art: Hanging Tomatoes

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October 30, 2011....Autumn is in the air, but the feel and smell of spring is strong in this photo of my hanging tomato plants with a view of the Santa Cruz Mountains from my patio. I also planted some peas with the tomatoes, and they produced enough to top my salads several times.

PS: Note the two 35 year-old Elephant Palms on either side of the tomato tree that I grew from about 2 inch plants:

October 29, 2011, Barb's Leaf Embroidery Quilted Table Topper

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October 29, 2011....Barb made this lovely quilted and embroidered table topper. I tried to talk her out of it to no avail. :)

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October 24, 2011....My sister-in-law, Barb, made this stunning quilted table cover for me. She calls it "Christian Easter." Please click to enlarge and see the amazing detail:

Mark 16:6

the angel said, "Do not be so surprised. You are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who was crucified. He isn't here! He has been raised from the dead! Look, this is where they laid his body.

October 22, 2011

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I found this in a box of my mother's keepsakes after she passed away. She loved sentimental stories and poetry. It is very old and wonderful; and contains no exact date, but my mother noted that it was in a 3^rd grade reader from 1934.

One, Two, Three__by Henry Cuyler Bunner

It was an old, old, old, old lady

And a boy who was half-past 3;

And the way that they played together

Was beautiful to see.

She couldn’t go running and jumping,

And the boy, no more could he,

For he was a thin little fellow,

With a thin little twisted knee.

They sat in the yellow sunlight,

               Out under the maple tree;

And the game that they played, Ill tell you,

               Just as it was told to me.

It was Hide-and-Go-See they were playing,

Though you’d never have known it to be.

               With an old, old, old, old lady

And a boy with a twisted knee.

The boy would bend his face down

On his one little sound right knee,

And he’d guess where she was hiding

               In guesses One, Two, Three.

You are in the china closet!”

He would cry, and laugh with glee.

               It wasn’t the china closet;

But he still had Two and Three.

“You are up in Papa’s big bedroom

In the chest with the queer old key!”

And she said: “You are warm and warmer,

But you’re not quite right,” said she.

               It can’t be the little cupboard

Where Momma’s things used to be,

So it must be in the clothes-press, Gran’ma.”

               And he found her with his Three.

Then she covered her face with her fingers,

That were wrinkled and white and wee,

And she guessed where the boy was hiding

With a One, and Two, and a Three.

And they never stirred from their places

               Right under the maple tree—

               This old, old, old, old lady

And the boy with the lame little knee,
And the boy that was half-past 3.

October 20, 2011 Halloween Scrabble Jack

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October 20, 2011......Barb, my Idaho sister-in-law, made this really cute Halloween wall hanging. Please click to enlarge: