On Sunday December 20, 2009 from Noon to 5:00pm there is a treat in store for you.
The Muckenthaler Cultural Center (AKA The Muck) in Fullerton is hosting a Fine Arts and Crafts Fair as part of their Annual Holiday Festival. Imagine that! There are two wonderful fiber exhibits showing, more info at http://www.themuck.org
There will be fine arts and crafts vendor booths, children's arts activites, music and dance performances and tours of the beautiful 1924 mansion which houses the center.
Some of the Cut Loose Quilters will be there selling art quilts, cards, quiltlets, fabric post cards, ornaments, pillows and more. I will be there as well as Cindy Cooksey, Jamie Fingal, Stacy Hurt and Terry Waldron!
Come and enjoy a great opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts at reasonable prices.
Please join us!
12/2/09
10/11/09
Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton CA
This is a lovely place....a vintage mansion, now concert venue, art galleries, lawns for craft fairs, car shows and two (!) beautiful Batchelder fireplaces.
Currently, there are two exhibits. Downstairs, find "Natural Fibers", featuring fiber art including a very beautiful willow sculpture by Carol Shaw-Sutton, (a former teacher and always an inspiration) and wall installation pieces made from twined palm and canvas as well as Joseph Cornell like boxes filled with textures created by collections of seed pods, eggs, and mysterious natural forms.
A day well spent! Do check out the "Muck" as it is known to it's friends and supporters....lots of music, art and beauty right at Euclid and Malvern in Fullerton!
Upstairs find "Contemporary Quilts", an exhibit of a range of textile work including friend Stacy Hurt's piece Children of Lir ,( the photo does not do it justice) several pieces by friend Cindy Cooksey and friend Jamie Fingal, all members of Cut Loose Quilters, 
(see www.cutloosequilters.com/) as well as quilts by Rose Hughes, Carol Henke and others of Quilts on the Wall, a local art quilt group. For more of their work see www.quiltsonthewall.com/.
We enjoyed both shows, and then wandered to downtown Fullerton where we had lunch at a small cafe, enjoying chicke posole soup and tasty sandwiches and omlets, and then window shopped at Gilding the Lily which features vintage trim, hats, charms, buttons, game prize tokens, and a printer's chest full of what art quilters call "embellishments!"
Ever since I was the little girl who was allowed to choose her own hair ribbons at Sprouse Ritz, I have loved all kinds of ribbon...still do...just look what I found at Gilding the Lily....
9/19/09
Down Home Antique Emporium Holds Fall Open House
9/11/09
Cow Chip Bingo???

Cow watching begins at noon at EMHS...I will be there, because this is too silly to miss! Besides, by chance two of the tickets I bought contain the number 68 (my graduation year) and 70 ( my brother's graduation year!) I, of course, will win with that lucky start. Come on cows!
9/10/09
Lost at the beach?

user's guide and you could actually get an idea of what is ahead? I do understand the concept of moving in faith, I just wish it were easier....
I am not a contol freak, really, I am just a planner and a dreamer and seem to have lost my way a bit....it has happened before, I have wandered a bit, but always, eventually find my way to MY WAY, it just seems a bit painful right now.
Thank goodness for friends, for those lovely people who call or email that they are thinking of me and/or praying for me. I am just a bit undone...my brother tells my father, "Don't worry, she always lands on her feet" and I am grateful for the worry and the trust in my abilities, but OH MY do I wonder where Richard gets the confidence in me when I am lacking it myself today.....I know I will get back to MY WAY, MY PATH, but I am wandering today....
Perhaps I need to get lost at the beach....found photo from the other coast I am sure...a reminder of a visit to Cape Cod years ago.
9/8/09
OCQG Potluck
Every year in August the Orange County Quilters Guild hosts a potluck prior to it's regular meeting. Quilters, being creative types, decorate their tables and awards are given. There is always an award for the best recipe, the most original table decorations etc. This year, Juanita Swarts (shown above) and I decorated a table with the theme from our upcoming quilt show, "Quilts-Our Global Language". We had a lot of fun doing this and even won a prize..fabric of course! 
Have you ever seen a batiked globe? Juanita created this one. Gorgeous, yes? The fabric postcard "Peace" was made by Joanell Connelly.The only thing I did not understand was that the prize we won was for the "Most Eccentric!" Hmmmmm...what other kind of globe would quilters have but a fabric one! What is so eccentric about that?
8/28/09
Mountain Man Music Jam (Mountain Women Too!)
8/26/09
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
8/14/09
Five Stories Up
Why is a level of a building called a story? Well, there are stories and then there are stories...
The building with the American flag is the Spurgeon Building, named after a founding father. I love the various levels and shapes and colors.
Just what lurks and lives on rooftops here in Santa Ana?
Interesting ducts and dishes, shapes repeated and satellites for entertainment.
Yipes, stripes!
Every day, since coming to the Santa Ana Senior Center to work temporarily, I park in a five story parking structure. The view is different from up on the open air/top story.
This is the view north and down. Old bricks and new railings, I believe these are apartments above retail, but I can only guess because it all looks different from up here.
It is interesting being at or above tree tops, even if it is only Birch Park at Third and Birch. This is the park that my mother came to when she attended Santa Ana High School. The botony class came for leaves to press for their class project,(1947) to learn Latin names. Now the park is home to street people. (2009)
And then I looked down.
Stripes and shadows.
This way, out!
8/8/09
Tea for 5
The Tea Bags, a group of lovely ladies, has invited me to be part of their tea parties. Thank you Cecelia, Sue, and best friends/sisters Diane, and Elaine. Elaine hosted us in Oceanside amid lovely antiques including this wonderful piece. No, it is not a Victrola, but a Columbia Grafonola! Gorgeous wood, a very sharp needle and the record? "Mickey's Grand Opera!" A collectors piece I am sure.
Have you ever heard a mouse and a duck and a chicken singing opera? Me neither! Thanks Elaine!
These two charmers are Gracie (age 11, on the right) and Sally, ( age 6, on the left.) In case you haven't guessed they are Jack Russell Terriers. Sally has a foot fetish and was licking ankles and toes under the tea table!
Here are 2 of our "Tea Bags"...that is Diane on the left and Cecelia on the right...you can see we enjoyed the meal! I am the one holding the camera...HA!
Diane and Cecelia are both Agri-Women! Diane raises sheep and pigs and Cecelia raises goats and chickens! I was the lucky recipient of fresh eggs and homemade gouda cheese...yummmm!
Elaine harvested some tasty recipes off of the internet and we enjoyed Orange Cranberry scones, and Blueberry scones, deviled eggs(Diane), cucumber sandwiches (Sue) and fresh fruit (me)....just as during the tea party there is more than we could enjoy! Lots of goodies....and more to take home! Then more great conversation, a tour of Elaine's place and a bit of music. Yes, Cecelia is truly a renaissance woman..she is a nurse too!
Next time, they will come to Orange and we will do some antique shopping in Old Towne!
Elaine harvested some tasty recipes off of the internet and we enjoyed Orange Cranberry scones, and Blueberry scones, deviled eggs(Diane), cucumber sandwiches (Sue) and fresh fruit (me)....just as during the tea party there is more than we could enjoy! Lots of goodies....and more to take home! Then more great conversation, a tour of Elaine's place and a bit of music. Yes, Cecelia is truly a renaissance woman..she is a nurse too!
Next time, they will come to Orange and we will do some antique shopping in Old Towne!
7/31/09
Long Beach International Quilt Festival-Project Runway at Make-It University
Check out the lady from France on the left, fun foam guitar in hand, and reefer madness in her eyes...amazing how many quilters know how to roll a...well, you know! She let me know after requesting that I take her picture with her camera, that her inspiration was Jimi Hendrix....hmmmmm!
Don't bogart that doilly, ladies!
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