FANE gallery show for 2012

Every year the FiberArt NE aka FANE group, of which I belong, has a gallery show at the Mahopac Library. This will be our 4th year. The show will be in May and will coincide with Northern Star's   quilt show. Which is always the 1st weekend in May. The gallery show on the other hand will run for a month. I'm not sure of the exact dates.  The last couple of years we have had a little book printed with our work. This year It was decided to print a tutorial on the technique's used to create some of the pieces.
It should be very interesting to see. I'm afraid I never got around to make up a technique sheet so my quilt won't have a how to page. That's because until a couple of days ago I had know idea what I was going to do. And so missed the deadline.All the quilts will be 12" x 12" mounted on a 18" x 18" white canvas.

People always ask "How long did it take you"...How do you answer that? Does thinking about it for several months count? Spending hours going through photos for inspiration count?  Bye the way this was inspire by a rug at the Winn Hotel in Vegas. Once I've decided on what to do, the actual work zips along at a pretty fast pace. Especially, if I like how its coming out. This time, I decided to incorporate my love beads into the piece. So this little puppy here took about 3-4 days. Now I need a name. God, how I hate trying to think of a name...Ughhhhh!

A New Bracelet

I had a Party to go to in the City. That's NYC. It was for a friend visiting from Australia. I have a group of girlfriends from all over the world. We have nicked named ourselves the Sisterhood of the Traveling Scarves. And when anyone of us are in a city at the same time we have a get together. This time it was close to home. Theme for the party Black and Silver. So you know I had to make a new Bracelet to wear. I already had the LBD (Little Black Dress).

Katina & Me

Jeannette, Katina, Ellen & Me

Here are all the sisters who where able to come to the Party that Ellen graciously gave. And Let me tell you she certainly knows how to throw a party. Starting on the left Katina, Kelly, Ellen, Pat, Me, Kathy, and Jeannette

OMG I can't believe I ate the whole thing

                                         asparagus in oil and garlic and  rice balls 

                                                                       stuffed peppers

                                                                  stuffed baby artichokes

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I certainly did. It's funny, but I can be pretty good about controlling what I eat around the holidays Except when I get to my daughters' house. Way to many Italian goodies. You see what I mean? The main course was  homemade pasta with truffle sauce and a fresh ham...I'm afraid to get on the scale...LOL Just kidding ..I didn't eat the whole thing.

Christmas Wishes

 Oh my gosh, where has the time gone. Christmas is almost here.With holiday decorations up before Halloween in all the stores, it seems to take forever to get here. And then, all of a sudden it's in 2 days. Well, at least I got all my shopping done. Just have to do some wrapping. My baking is also done. I don't do as much as I used too.  Just my Strufoli aka Honey Balls a  Neopoltan treat.  These days my daughter does  most of the baking. Although tomorrow, I will be making Rice Balls/Arancini.  A Sicilian dish that my Grandmother used to make. I only make them once or twice a year for Thanksgiving and or Christmas.This year I'm doing it twice.

So I will like to take this time to wish all my family, friends and followers of my blog a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year/Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo. . 
These are my wishes for you all:
For The Sisterhood of the Traveling Scarves: I wish you all safe travels and low airfares. 
For my Quilting Friends May your quilts get into all the shows you entered and win you many awards.
For all Health and Prosperity for the New Year.

For the World out there.  How about a Little Peace and a year without Terrorism. A Slogan from the 60's 
"Make Love not War"...that's it. No more preaching......

My latest jewelry designs

Just a couple of my new pieces. All are handmade by me. All are for sale. For more information and prices please email me privately.

Today I'm rearranging and cleaning out my studio and my son's room. Which has become a dumping ground for excess crafting supplies.
These are 3 master molds of my dolls. Dolls that I had sculpted during the early 90's. Now I haven't made a dolls in almost 20 years and I don't have any of my molds left. So I can't make any even if I wanted to. And yet it is so hard for me to put these 3 pieces in the trash. I feel like I'm throwing away my babies...Silly, isn't it. I haven't even looked at them in years. Well, I will bite the bullet and toss it...

check out my QR code...Cool. now I have to figure out how to post on the side bar so that its permanent.