Blue Goddess Mandala Table Quilt

Completed, documented, and now for sale over in Lisbeth's Etsy shop! And I ordered 14 more yards of fabric from Spoonflower today. Stay tuned!

Lisbeth is down with seizures again, but she had a good week and a half or so. I can always tell she's in a good space when she doesn't call me alot - and when she does call, it's to tell me to put money in her bank account! :^) She loves to shop!

Goddess Sisters Mandala Fabric...

...in the process of becoming a table quilt. I'm still using my trusty 50's Singer, but must soon make the leap and buy a new fangled machine that does more than a straight stitch! I'm trimming and backing the quilt with this pretty madras plaid. It was part of my mother's stash of fabric that I inherited when we moved her out of her house into an Alzheimer's unit in an assisted living facility. This fabric is so my mother. I will be adding a ribbon trim, and doing some machine quilting next...

Our table runner in the previous post was mentioned in yet another blog post yesterday! So cool! Check it out!

Table Runner Runner Up!

Our Brain Star table runner is featured in a collection on Kirsten Krason's blog, 6th Street Design School today! What a beautiful selection! Check it out!

Milkweed Love

Little Milkweed

was laying on my lap

long of hour.

That is so cute of her,

you do know...

(Excerpt from a recent phone conversation with Lisbeth...:^)

Brain Star Table Linens!

Now for sale in Lisbeth's Etsy shop! We have a Mother's Day special going on ~ buy any two items and get 20% off on any third item! C'mon over and look around!

Mandala Dreaming

Lisbeth spent the night at our house last Friday night. Unfortunately, she had a seizure and slept on the couch most of the evening. She will not remember being here, so we will have to schedule another sleepover soon! I took this picture of Lisbeth asleep on a pillow made out of fabric that was painted with a big mandala by my daughter, Kaitlyn. Both my girls love those circular designs! It looks like Lisbeth is having mandala dreams...

Lisbeth's Drawings

Wedding Lady
Mommy and Allie

Family

Mom Cat, Dad Cat (one of my all time favorites! :*)

Ice Cream

Mommy and Daddy, Going on a Date

Daddy

Ballerina

Self Portrait

Wedding Girl

Mom

Yesterday I had the special honor of being mentioned in Amanda Soule's terrific blog, Soulemama, and I have her to thank for my new followers to this blog today! Welcome all! Amanda posted about fabric designing and showed some super sweet fabric printed with her family's bird drawings. I adore kids' art. Here are some of Lisbeth's drawing from our family archives, all done when she was between the ages of 6 and 11 (click to enlarge!). I have plans to make cards on Zazzle with these (and now that I've seen Amanda's fabric, I'm thinking, oooooh, fabric....).

I have a big drawer in an old dresser full of my five children's artwork - not the most archival method of storing it! I have scanned much of it, as Amanda mentioned she has done with her children's bird drawings. I would urge you to do the same! These precious pieces of art are so very fleeting and often go "the way of all things," to use one of my mother's expressions. They are fun to look back on once your children are adults, as mine are now.

Have a glorious spring weekend!