One Day!

The Paradise City artisans set up today!  Took about 3 hours to get my own booth up, and the show opens at 10 am tomorrow!  The ground is soggy, but the load in was easy, and the rain should stop shortly!  I'll be in the third building on the left.

Two Days Until Paradise City Arts Festival

And here's the 2nd screech owl...

Screech Owl #7 - Red, in progress

Three Days Until Paradise City Arts Festival

Of course I have other things to do, but if I'm lucky, maybe I'll finish a pair of owls in time for the show!  This one still needs the beak stitched in.  The second owl will be red, 'cause they come in two flavors.

Gray Screech Owl - detail, unfinished

Four Days until Paradise City!

We can all dream, right?

another small quilted greeting card!

Five Days!

There's just something about sea turtles... they are amazing, ancient creatures.  And, maybe it has to do with where my husband proposed!

Six Days!

This is one of my more abstract pieces.

Sun in the Forrest

Seven Days!

We have a hummingbird on our feeder!  (Last year we also had a downy woodpecker that would stop by for nectar!!!)

Hummingbird Moon - detail

Eight Days until Paradise City!

Thistle Finches - detail      Always fun to use up all those scraps for backgrounds!

Nine Days until Paradise City!

Every spring, Paradise City runs a silent auction and donates the proceeds to a local non-profit.  This year it's the International Language Institute.  Here's my contribution:

4" x 6" untitled

Ten Days until Paradise City

the plan for tonight... assemble hardware and equipment for my booth! 
My husband designed the flamingo for me as a birthday card, and we couldn't resist turning it into a small quilt!

Steampunk Flamingo - detail

Eleven Days until Paradise City (sorry I missed a post on day twelve)

I'm in bird mode this spring.  Here's an evening grosbeak.  I can recall seeing them at my father's feeder in the winter as a child, but I don't think I've seen one as an adult.  I've always loved gold and black birds as a result though.

Thirteen Days Until Paradise City

This is a detail from Tea with Wren #3.  (The Carolina Wren says, "tea kettle, tea kettle, tea!"

Fourteen Days Until Paradise City!

This is my entry for their special exhibit, Birds of Paradise

Green Jay 10" x 14"

Fifteen Days until Paradise City!

Paradise City Arts Festival
These folks have been my neighbors at the show for the past two years.  I hope they're back this spring, they have wonderful garden sculpture!  (Note the allosaurus skull in the background.)

Sixteen Days Until Paradise City!

Paradise City Arts Festival

Crow Among the Hydrangeas and the Roses   15" x 17"

New! Mini-Quilt Greeting Cards!

Bringing a few mini-quilt greeting cards to Paradise City Arts Festival Memorial Day Weekend at the Noho Fairgrounds! Here are some samples.

Dawn Hills

Sonoma Red

Lazy Afternoon

Blackbird Moon

Fishing for Dreams