Art by the Sea Jan 21 & 22

If you live in the area of Vero Beach/Melbourne/Fort Pierce, Florida,

be sure to come to the Art by the Sea exhibit 

at the Vero Beach Museum of Art

My painting Cactus Flowers will be in the show

along with many other fabulous creations.

We have a great art community in this area so don't miss out.

See you there,

Chris

Happy New Year

Thanks for joining me this past year in my flights of creative mischief

and hope to see you again in the coming year

May your new year be filled with joy and light!

Chris

As the old year winds down

I am thinking about and planning some projects for 2012

I saw lots of embroidered tops on a recent trip down to West Palm Beach,

especially at Anthropologie

so I dug out some of my vintage patterns and collected floss and fabric

I plan to make up several kits in the next few days for embroidering and sewing.

I will also be listing a bunch of my vintage patterns on etsy so stay tuned!

DH gave me a wonderful magazine for Christmas called Jane Austen Knits - I love it!

And here I am casting on the Theme scarf out of some Cherry Tree Hill yarn from my stash

the color is called Spring Frost and it is so beautiful!

I also started working on a quilt for DH's birthday this spring

The pattern is from the February 2009 issue of American Patchwork & quilting

which I picked up at the Used Book Store

I think he will like it (well, I hope so anyway).

He likes to have a small quilt down at the bottom of the bed

just in case his feet get cold!

Thanks for reading

and hope you have a fun weekend!

We are just staying home for New Year's Eve

but I am going to a painting party on New Year's Day

and we are attending a big birthday party on Jan 2-

should be fun!!

that's all for 2011 -

see you next year

Chris

A holiday painting for my Captain

 I painted this for my DH for Christmas - it is based on a photograph that he took on Christmas night 1997 when we were anchored in Boot Key Harbor at Marathon. He went out in the dinghy and took photos of Kalahari, our sailboat, backlit by the sunset.

I have been working on skies so this one reminded me of early morning in the Keys and I worked on the strip of land from my fond memories

Hope you are having a wonderful Boxing Day!

Chris