artful tour of Cardiff by the sea, and V Day

We visited our son in Cardiff by the Sea recently.

It's a great area, and my son loves it there.

It even has its own surfer dude sculpture, that gets embellished all the time by creative types.

Here is a Valentine's outfit I made for Samantha. Not hard, just fun.

I got ambitious and made Belgian Brownie cupcakes for Valentine's Day for my guy. They were good but rich. I had to put most of them in the freezer for later.

Missing Carol

A dear friend, Carol McDaniel, died last weekend. This is one of her quilts, that I bought at an auction a few years ago. She was a true artist and loved art. She was brave and adventurous with color combinations and was always up for challenges. We had some good times over the years - dyeing fabric, a few road trips, lots of sharing whatever we were working on. I will miss her.

eating ice cream video

One more video, this time of my granddaughter eating chocolate ice cream at Main Place in Santa Ana.

Video with soccer ball

This is a precious video of my grandchild playing with a soccer ball with her great aunt Marti. The owl hat is something I made as a Christmas gift, and it's been a hit.

hexagon ball class

I will be teaching how to make a ball out of hexagons and pentagons on Saturday, February 11 from 1:30 to 4:30, at Flying Geese Fabrics in Tustin. Technically it's called the Flannel Baby Ball class, but I can teach whatever style interests people - crazy, contemporary, etc. If interested, call Flying Geese to sign up at 714-544-9349.

Art Quilts Defined, and At the Zoo

"The art quilt is a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or
that references this form of stitched layered structure."

This is the new definition announced by SAQA. Nice, huh? I guess my quilts still qualify. I promise to post new work soon. I just need to figure out the border.

For those into grandchildren, here's another video of our grandchild, taken recently at the OC Zoo. They're only young once!

A Conversation

Cute video of Samantha talking to Grandpa.