Finding time for play

Yesterday was one of those days you wish you could do over. It started at 4:00 am with a phone call from my MIL thinking having to go to the ER. No worries, she is fine. I won't go into the rest, just know that a certain therapist will be sporting a new you-know-what today. I'm riping her a new one, pardon my vulgarity. Argh!

So on to the fun stuff...before the day spun out of whack I was quietly enjoying some creative time in this wonderful mess...with these lovely dyed pieces...
A few days ago I was going through my digital downloaded sheets from Patty of Lisa's Altered Art (yes, I love her offerings) and came across a sheet of fun girlfriend images she altered and added humorous phrases to such as," tattles", "pees when laughs",etc. We can all use some humor right? Well I needed some humor so I printed them out on my cotton poplin and began collecting fabrics and the hand dyed crochet and lace bits I had hanging in the studio. Before long I had several pieced together. I gathered embellishments for one and had some fun.
I started with the whimsical image and chose fabrics to coordinate. I used solid fabrics to embellish or add GLITZ, and each received a fancy fabric for a little GLAM. Each will be backed with the dyed lace and lace will also be the flap. The dyed laces are old pieces I gave new life to and they will represent "Old and treasured friendships". They will be titled,"Girlfriend pouches" . Something you would give a close friend or family member who enjoys a bit of vintage and humor to be used for hands free shopping when you two go out and about shopping. They are a little larger than my neck pouches with plenty of room for essentials. I'm just having fun with these and making them a little "Bohemian" because when kicking it with friends, you gotta relax and be carefree but.....you can still do it in style :-)
Thank you Patty for inspiring yet another ton of fun in my studio. I really need this!
Today mom escapes from the rehab facility and not a day too soon. I will spare you the horror stories because I am just grateful she is alive. (not kidding)
Make it a great day!

Cold but beautiful sunrise

Mr. insomnia visited me last night so I stitched for four hours and cooked a roast for BBQ beef. It is 7:30 am now and I am finished with dinner and getting ready to run errands then visit mom. Too bad we have to waste time sleeping, imagine what all we could accomplish if our eyes could stay open 24/7 without toothpicks :-)

I snapped a few sunrise pics to share however my stitching project isn't ready yet. It is a fun project I thought of last night around 6:00. I needed some humor and these little bags fits the bill. More later.....hint:"Girlfriend pouches"
Now for the beautiful sky pics............first pic is orange-ish....
then only seconds later its turning pink...

Now to finish shredding the BBQ beef and head out the door....

Have a sunny day

Not ungrateful, just busy!

I have not been home very much lately let alone online for more than a few minutes at a time and I didn't get to thank everyone who voted for my Christmas stocking. Thanks to you I won the challenge and I'm very excited. I love the new magazine ,"Creating Vintage Charm" so naturally I had to enter the challenge using one of two images provided in the magazine. This was my first CQ stocking and it was fun to work on something different and quite a challenge since I had very little time to dream up and execute this project.
So thank you so much for your vote and very kind comments. I'm looking forward to the next issue already!

Some sweet images for you...