i had such a wonderful time with my artist friend marisa on friday.  she is wonderfully talented & gifted-not only as an artist but as a person.  marisa has such great passion for her art-her work reflects her joy-whatever medium she is working in (the girl is multi talented.) 
 visit her website:  http://www.creativethursday.com/
and don’t miss her wonderful new creation’s “the [...]

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i bought a large collection of edwardian paper dolls years ago, having no  idea what i would do with them.  i’m having so much fun creating!

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i wanted to share this fabulous early 1800’s embroidered silk i used in “life is but a dream” - you can view the entire hanging on my website in  frozen charlotte’s gallery two.

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for me the perk about cleaning and rearranging is unearthing treaures i’d forgotten i have-it’s a little like christmas. i thought i’d share this one square- a personal favorite.  circa late 1800’s square, cotton from 24″ goods, half drop repeat.  the image is similar to “can’t you talk?” from dr. jaynes medicines trade cards.
i thought about having a “before” picture [...]

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