Flowers in Fabrics, Paint and Real Life on Bloomin' Tuesday!

Another beautiful quilt from the Winters Quilt Festival... & some real flowers from same festival! Diane knows the artist who made these wonderful roses!

And this quilt grabbed my eye. Loved the pop out flowers!

And the real trees in the background really made it shine.

Remember the Melinda Bula art quilt I made for my son and his new wife for their

wedding two years ago? I had to do a double take when I saw it at the Winters

Quilt shop. Melinda is coming this month to teach others to make this

beautiful quilt.

I had an opportunity to see this years Sunflower art show in Davis on Sunday.

This is the painting that was picked for the seed packet this year.

The artist is four years old (4)!!! 1 2 3 4!

I was able to get into the big room full of quilts but we could not find the light.

So I walked around in the dark and took photos using my flash

and they came out surprisingly well.

Here's another done by a very young child.

I hope your day is filled with beauty like these!

Enjoy!

Winters Quilt Festival & Grandkids Fun!

On Saturday I went to Davis to pick up my friend Diane and we drove to Winters to the outdoor quilt festival. It was a beautiful warm breezy day...just right for viewing hundreds of quilts blowing in the wind outside! The highlight of the day was seeing actual quilts from Gee's Bend! This one struck me for being so colorful!

We walking along Main street looking at fronts and backs of these

wonderful creations of so many talented hands.

Diane fell in love with this one particular quilter, a guy named Mike!

His style was not unsimiliar to her own, although with a definite masculine flare!

This is the back of one of his many quilts in the show!

I have many more photos which I can share at another time.

From there I drove to the home of my daughter/SIL and grandchildren.

It was instantly apparent that my grandma's bag is never ever

going to go out of style!

We did our usual art projects, torn paper pictures; paper airplanes;

felt gluing pieces too.

While cleaning up at home I found these two stuffed animals in a bag in the garage.

They had been my daughters when she was a little girl.

I was about to take them to the thrift store to donate, but DH stopped me.

So instead I took them with me yesterday and the kids, who had not

shown much interest in them at our house

suddenly swooped them up with love and said YES they wanted them! So Lizzy the Lion and Poly Bear have a new home!

This photo is on it's side, but shows the men repairing my grandson's guitar.

As usual we had music time with grandpa playing guitar and singing and the kids joining in on drums and tambourines. GD did ballet, GS picked out a song (really!) on the keyboard!

They also had played basketball out front too on the newly installed 9' hoop

and my little Gson was able to make basket after basket after basket!

He is quite the athlete! Needless to say it was another very very good day!

;-)