Patchwork fields

Thinking about my bottle tree.

I've been wanting a bottle tree for a long, long, time. The first one I ever saw was way back when I was at AU. I kinda had a bottle tree (bush)while we were at Bell Road, and I moved my small collection of Blue bottles. After almost loosing the collection to a clean up effort, (I can see where they may look like drunken garbage)I decided I better plan my bottle tree here at ThirteenEleven. Our yard here is still a bit of an overgrown kudzu jungle, and I think there is a fine line from a bottle tree looking junky rather than artsy, cool, and historic so I am not sure the timing is right for the tree. These are some Ideas that I like, I tend to favor the more organic looking trees over the post looking trees, and I definitely like the all cobalt blue trees over the multi colored trees.

Winter Wonderland

View from a Restroom Window in Banff Springs

Russian Icons

Yesterday, I decided to drop by the local Art Museum. (Originally a jail.)

I went to see a private collection of Russian Icons.

I thought I would share these snaps from my cell phone of the one and only.......

SAINT NICOLAS

a little closer.......... he looks like "the one".
this representation must be a younger version...
and here........ another representation of Saint Nick....

It is hard to believe these are egg tempera on wood/board and several centuries old.

There are actually a number of Russian Icons listed on ebay......

You have to see this blog....DailyCoyote

All of the photographs are copyrighted (or I would show one here)but there are some incredible pictures that tell the story of raising a coyote, Charlie, in the wilds of Wyoming. Love it!!!!

http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com

New Banner

Look at the new banner and I made it myself. !!!!!

The letters on the left look a little fuzzy so I need to fix that.

More Pretty Places

Vinoy

Places

Pencil, Ink, Cray-pas

Colored Pencil
Block Print----done in 1990 @ AU

I found these leaves under ThirteenEleven's Pecan Tree.

Just an interesting pic from ThirteenEleven's file.

Zinnias

Playing around with Fabric

Inspired with what Plum Tree Studios is doing with children's clothes and LullaBelle and Easy Edges Studios are doing with bags, etc. I thought I would play around with some scrap fabrics that I picked up working on the condo project. It is a square pillow topper. I guess..... It still needs ironing and my tension was a little tight. But kinda fun for a first fabric project in a long time. In college I made a lot of pillows and gave to friends and family and sold at a craft sale. I saw some things like this at market the other week, so I thought I would give it a try.....

Jill's Crop Circles

Art inspired from.....all the trips out west.......

Crop Circles from Jill's trip out west....

Nasturtiums

My Nasturtiums were bloomin' and I found this great book cover showing the Arts & Crafts stylized version of the same flower.

Beads

Snowflake Obsidian, Hematite, and Black Onyx
Picasso Jasper and glass seed beads

Architectural Elements