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Another side of London, this centre is a ten minute train ride from Clapham Junction – the contrast is stunning!
Can you see us?
Dreamtime:
Wonderfully textural plant:
Gorgeous feathers:
and gorgeous grass:
Loving these feathers:
Shelter:
We are family:
Soul Food :
Total refreshment for body, mind and soul.
I really must keep up with posting here. I am trying to work out a way to combine my blogs – I feel I am compartmentalising rather than presenting a whole, something I am familiar with in terms of my thinking. However, I am finding it much more difficult than I imagined.
In the meantime, here are the quilties :
May theme was free – I decided to use some multi-dyed cotton cut into strips, woven together again into two pieces, the one placed diagonally onto the other …then the stitching – my favourite part.
June theme: Birds, Butterflies and/or Bees. I chose birds – this one may look very familiar if you followed the sketchbook entry – i took it directly from one of the sketches – it works for me!
My contribution to a book made for a friend who was not at all well – many friends made pages and the book was an absolute beauty, the recipient was more than happy with the surprise .
The quote I used on the back is one I love and one which said what I wanted to express:
“Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting
that a new world is born”
Anais Nin
This fabulous carton arrived this morning from Jan Bartlett. Both the carton and the contents are just fabulous and beautifully crafted. They included an exquisitely made accordion journal (hard-backed), a handmade charm and so much more. Thank you very much Jan.
This has been a wonderful experience of exchanging art with others – a very different idea to the usual trades. Many thanks to the artists involved and to Susan for creating and initiating this project.
I am moving my art blog over to WordPress – I prefer the format there as I can accommodate the different media on separate pages whilst staying within the same blog.
The new blog address is:
http://meanderingmuse.wordpress.com
Hope to see you there 
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This is my interpretation of this month’s quiltie theme on Unlimited Textiles - Nature. I took a rubbing of some bark with a crayon on white cotton which I then coloured with blue/green inks – the scan is not showing the colours too clearly. I then hand-stitched a small amount, not wishing to detract from the natural pattern of the bark.
Oh another beautiful carton and art, this time from Lubna, a wonderful artist friend. The carton is not showing to clearly but was decorated so well. It contained a beautifully crafted journal, a lovely vintage ATC and a handmade ceramic hand glazed and with glass fused on top. There was also an incense cone enclosed which was to sit on the hand. Lubna makes such wonderful mosaics and ceramics – please go take a look at her work : Lubna
I have been RAK’d by Shakti and Mika with Art in a Carton. What a fabulous surprise it was with wonderful contents which speak to me. A beautiful Goddess doll, a shrine containing a small Goddess doll , a canvas on a stand which reads “The Magic World is Inside Us” and a fabulous ATC . Within the Shrine is a card which reads: “To the renewal of Gaia, Our Mother, and to the Goddess” and on the Shrine itself it reads: “Woman is like God, because she gives birth to the people” – African Proverb and “It is by and through Her that all things moving and motionless shine. It is by the light of this Devi that all things become manifest “. Now wouldn’t receiving all these blessings just make your day too ? )
I have been quiet online for a little while but have been creating nevertheless. My neck/shoulders and therefore my arms/hands are still giving me problems so I am much slower than usual. I am finding though, that if I take my time I am enjoying the processes just as much, if not more – I have become more relaxed that’s for sure – plenty of practice ). Textiles seem to be calling me again at the moment – I am continuing with the large couched piece that I started some time ago – taking even longer now lol, but am considering the centrepiece again and think I may do a circle of crazy-quilting as I could then use images/text/symbols which all have meaning to me. I will update further with a new picture when I can.
I am feeling to work on several personal projects now and am reducing the amount of swaps etc that I am involved with choosing to focus on small exchanges only. I am happy with this. I will try to be more regular in my blog updates. Below are the pieces I have done whilst being invisible ;o).
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