Marilyn's Grandson button finished...

Marilyn's grandson is now on his very own 1 1/4" button.  It was about done for awhile but wasn't happy with it and then I realized his ear was too low...  When I fixed that I am now really done.. The background is not grey but I scanned it and the mop reflection made it look grey.  I will have to search for her email address.

Worked a while on Margreet's block and should have something to share tomorrow.. Will start on Shirlee's button tomorrow and then take a button break and get back to stitching.

Time to face reality.....

Remember last August when I was getting ready to take button painting seriously???  I set up one of my beloved little hospital tables  and I think I made some brash statement  that if I confined my area I would have to limit the numbers of bottles of paint I was using at one time...

Well I must have made that assumption after a couple of G&Ts because it was pure wishful thinking on my part...








By last month my painting table was looking like this...  There was about two square inches that weren't covered with bottles of paint and, with the ends of the table open,  bottles of paint were falling to the floor...  Of course Morris was always on the watch... chewing the top of paint bottles is one of his favorite pastimes.

So it was out to the barn last week to make a new "topper" for my hospital table.  It is about 4" longer and about 3 " deeper but the biggest change is the long tiered paint rack at the back and I have screwed on trays at each end to keep bottles from falling off...  (Morris going"Grrrrrrr rats! )

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Mondrian has arrived!!!

Margreet's Mondrian blocks have arrived.. and I had studied some on his life and had an whimsical idea in  mind...  But I'd never  settle on it until I saw Gayle's work but it will work well together...

Gayle used his later years and love for jazz as her inspiration...  I'm choosing his peripatetic life.. Living through two world wars and moving with the art world he was continually on the move throughout his career...

Margreet has limited us to the three primary colors plus white and black....no greens.  I probably would have used a little green so will adapt. I want my images to appear flat so will use a chain stitch for filling in areas of color. Also I'll do no seam treatments... DH is out of town this weekend so I'm not answering the phone, shutting the gate and will paint and stitch.... well also defrost the freezer and clean the oven....

One other small detail...  the line on the upper left is a little out of plumb and  that will drive me NUTS... will have to fix it..

A girl and her doll

What a lovely way to start the day...  Hideko posted her work on the girl with a doll she chose... and it is so endearing... Although I only sent out six in this RR, I ended up with 18 of these images and will send them out in other RRs until I have enough for an album.

I wanted "girly" and sweet and Hideko definitely captured the feeling of the period of this painting... Look closely at the bottom and you see she has created an entire country scene with manor house and all.  With all the special touches now the block itself has a story.

She has posted about what the painting reminded her of as a child and it is very touching.  To hear her tell it you can go to her blog.  I could do all these blocks myself but they would all look like MY work, my voice.. It will be so much more special for each block to have another "voice."

Thank you so much Hideko...  I shall treasure it.

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