Here's a little book I made for the ar-TEA swap hosted by MaryAnn: I finally finished this at about 1:30 a.m. and popped it in the mail today to my swap partner in Finland. I had so much fun making it. The size is 4" x 4". The cover and right hand pages are done with fabric. The back and left pages are done with collaged watercolour paper. I used decorative papers to do the quotations and photos.

I must leave my computer as I am exhausted. Much has been going very well the last few days and I will be freed to do more creating.

Till tomorrow - "angels be with you".

And thanks for all of your kind comments and observations. I'll be back to you soon.

Back to the blues: It has absolutely nothing to do with my mood. I'm feeling more like a rainbow these days. It has everything to do with the fact that blue was my first most favourite colour. When encountered with the proposition of doing my next creation for the journal quilt group to which I belong, I chose this blue fabric. The page to go with it explains more about it.




When I started looking for more tea cups and pots for all the tea swaps Mary Ann organizes, I came across more blue.



And for this week's Friday finds I couldn't help myself but buy this beautiful trunk which I found three houses away at their garage sale for only 50 cents.



I love the inside of it and when I sent Greg to pick it up I mentioned all the nails in the greatest hope that the wooden containers came with the nails. YES! They did.



My dream will be to empty out the nails right quickly and clean those containers, then decorate with ribbons and tins and odds and ends to look remotely like this idea I found in the book Designing with Fabric which I was fortunate to receive from Mary Ann also.














We're off to the farm again for a couple of days. Angels be with you.