Here's to change!

With endings come new beginnings. With change comes growth. 2011 has been a wild ride for many throughout the world (including me). Perhaps 'the world as we know it' has ended and a new one has begun. Or maybe life is just one continuous flux.

I hope 2012 brings creative challenges and peaceful grace to all of you who visit. Sharing my work and life with you makes me feel as though I am a part of something larger than myself. Reading your comments and blogs inspires me. Thank you.

The image is from a French site and I think the image has to do with traffic fluctuations, which fits right in with my life. It inspires me.

Daily work

I have new things to try that have been merely thoughts for the past month or so. As the holidays wind down and the long winter lies ahead, there is time to begin again, with a new rhythm of work and family and art... hopefully... most everyday.

At the moment, my inspiration and energy is waning and I am waiting to feel rested. So for now, I will stitch these circles and wait for the energy and the calm to go with the inspiration.

I can see the fatigue in my stitches... perhaps I just need some rest. Time for along winter's nap.

Thread takes a holiday

Wishing you a calm and beautiful holiday!

A bit of fun for a busy season

With so little time to stitch lately... a bit of pencil on painted cloth.

Gifts, thoughtful gifts

This piece has become blue, still makes me think of clowns and frenzied children. But it doesn't matter... the cloth has served it's purpose, it's purpose of distraction, allowing my mind to wander... and new solutions have come to mind during the past couple of weeks. Solutions to 'finishing' some of the many pieces that I have completed over the past few years... presentation solutions. So this cloth has been a gift to me, it doesn't have to give anything else.