Monday and Tuesday.... What shall I Render....? ? ?

Yesterday was a Holiday.... so today is either Tuesday or my Monday since it is my first day back at work...

Blog News..........drumroll please.....
Dr. Carolyn L. Mazloomi just announced a call for entries into a juried exhibition titled "Beyond Category: Visions of Jazz in Fiber."
The show will be featured at the International Textile Biennial (San Jose, Costa Rica) and the University of Costa Rica (Limon) from September 7 to October 12, 2010.

If you would like your quilt(s) to be considered the eligibility and guidelines say each entry is by digital images only. You may submit up to 3 entries. Quilts must be created after 2008. Entries must be a minimum of 36" per side through a maximum 60" per side. Key Dates: July 1, 2010 deadline for entry and July 15, 2010 notification of acceptance.

When you submit your digital image(s), you are required to send: Artist's First Name, Last Name, full address including country, phone number, including country code, and your email address. Submit one overall DIGITAL image and one detail DIGITAL image for each piece of artwork. Send your digital images as a high quality JPEG or TIFF files. Finished image should be 1800 pixels on the longest side. Label each digital image with the name of your artwork title and indicate if detail or full. You must also include an artist's statement (25 words or less) with the piece's title, height x width, in inches, year completed, insurance value, materials and techniques (25 words or less).

Dr. Mazloomi will accept your entry on a CD or send via the internet. She says, "I will NOT ACCEPT entries without the artist name. Believe it or not, I receive many entries with no name attached." The contact information is: Carolyn Mazloomi, 5481 Oldgate Drive, West Chester, OH 45069, email: drmaz4wcq@aol.com.

Shall I say.... Its a lovely day

In the Neighborhood.....  I'm so peaceful and blessed.   Strip pieced again into the night....

2008, Cut, Add, Stitch.... The Dream Lives On!

Remembering a Legend.... and I quilted MLK

His birth month, our holiday! His Legacy is ever vivid in my heart

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BUT just before you do...Hit the follow my blog button.... maybe I'm doing something wrong.... I'm feelin invisibile or rather lonesome for the start of 2010.

Looking for to sharing my quilting life via blogger's world!!!.

Hello world of friends!

An ornament on mama's tree:  St. Ann's Skilled Nursing Ctr

2009

An Ornament

My discovery of Christmas 2009: created by Ed Johnetta Miller, Hartford Conn.

Label noted: White House Ornament!!!

Don't miss out on the upcoming 208-page color catalog that is available for pre-order for $16.50 (Amazon). The book ships in April 2010.


"The Journey of Hope in America: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama"

The National Afro-American Museaum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio is hosting the exhibit "The Journey of Hope in America: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama" from December 18, 2009 untio December 2010.

I was one of over ninety quilt artists whose work was accepted for submission to Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, curator, and founder of Women of Color Network. I am so thankful to her dedication and vision  -- it is  rare opportunity to share my quilt  in this beautiful quilting adventure!

Congratulations to all the quilters with pieces in the show!

Remember that Sweet Potato Pie....

Absolutely the best... very rich!  Almost beyond the test of a sweet potato, the vanilla and spice.   But here's what I wanted to include.... FACT THAT  ... NO   do not PRE-bake pie shells.  GEEEESH  I reallydidn't know...  so I called and asked.   I'm so thankful to Mary!!!!

Upcoming project.....! ! !

I'm almost sick.... Tiana Fabric Fix

YES... I need a Tiana Fabric Fix!!! 

It has taken some 60 years for the Disney artists to begin painting their leading ladies with all the colors of the wind, including the American Indian Pocahontas (1995), the Chinese Mulan (1998) and the Hawaiian Lilo (2002).

Here's our Little Miss Tiana,,, the princess and the frog (Lousiana, USA)

Inspiration...Not forgotten....

Gele   is a Yoruba {Nigeria, West Africa} word for a female headwrap. A "headwrap" is a long piece of cloth that you tie and tuck on your head