Except for the Mouse -- Christmas Creation

Here is the finished embroidery wallhanging I started a month ago. I just needed to get in front of the sewing machine and get the machine quilting and border completed.

I am getting more and more in the holiday spirit as the Halloween decorations are in full swing on the front picture window.



Also, I just spent 2 1/2 hours outside in the front yard working on the "swamp" of cottonwood tree leaves. A very nice elderly gentleman pulled up to work on a lawn across the street and came over and helped me. He has a wonderful machine called a Billy Goat that sucked up the leaves in a bag. He then dumped them onto my driveway for me to get into big heavy bags while he played with his machine on the lawn. It took 10 bags in all to complete the job.

This man was so sweet and would only take a cash donation from me. I hate that when people just say for a donation as I always want to give more. In the end I could only scrap up $8 in cash from around the house, but he was happy with that and worked very hard with me.

I think he was really "an angel" who came to help me with a very big task. Hope you have an angel to help you out today or when you need it most.

Inexpensive Decorating

I must report how thrilled I was to find a beautiful quilted fabric placemat and napkin set for my table at Goodwill this past week for only $3.99.

Also, the simple layout of the placemat can be used by myself as a reference for me to create others in the future.



I love the garden angel in the fabric as shown here.


Another surpise is that the placemats are reversible with a bright cheery pumpkin pattern on the back. Halloween is just around the corner!!

Dan Kenworthy Art Creations

"Angel's Wing"



"Mountain Splendor"



A friend of mine in Nashville, TN is a drywall installer by day and an artist the rest of his time. He has now combined the mediums he works with to create these wonderful masterpieces.







In the near future he will be selling his one of a kind pieces.



A "Bird of Royalty" Creation --



These pieces are part of a set of 3 inspired by "Celestial Shapes"

I hope you enjoy viewing them here. If you would like dimensions and prices on anything here, please contact him at kat_hw89@yahoo.com



This piece was inspired by Native American studies -- He is the "Weather God"

These pieces are "Inspired by Nature"




I couldn't resist taking a picture of Dan's pallet of color choices from what he works with on his projects:

Beautiful Coloring Pages for Embroidery

I discovered these beautiful coloring pages that could be incorporated into embroidery needlework and thought you might enjoy exploring them:

http://www.hugolescargot.com/coloriages-animaux-nature/coloriage-fruits-legumes.htm?

and

http://www.hugolescargot.com/coloriages-alphabet/coloriage-alphabet-fees.htm

These are just a couple of pages, but there are tons more tabs to check out.

When a photograph is not just a photograph...‏

Someone sent me these photos and a few more, but I thought they were very artsy expressive and even humorous.

Hope you are seeing things just as beautiful!

Angel Wings

For years I have been drawn to angels and anything related to them.

I have taken a look at how many things around my home are angel related and am including some pictures here.

I know quite a few people in my life that are drawn to angels. Just this past June I made a quilted throw for a cousin in Montana who was very ill after an operation. She too loves angels and felted blessed and loved at my simple creation with thoughts for her. It lifted her spirits and she felt helped her make a remarkably faster recovery than anticipated.


A wonderful angel website (www.angel-guide.com) with many things to explore had this beautiful quote:

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo

Indianchild.com had this wonderful information for me to take in:

Angels - the word is derived from the Greek etymology meaning ‘messenger’. The usual image we have of an angel is a cute little winged creature playing the harp and spreading the message of love and peace across the world. In fact there are several kinds of angels we believe in such as guardian angels, attendants, messengers and so on. So strong is our belief in these that we have captured these benevolent little spirits into angel statues as masterpieces of art and sculpting. Right from the Renaissance Age till date, artists have been creating Angel statues due to the religious and emotional characteristics attached to them. Angel statues are for religious purposes, as garden statues, home décor, in offices, in museums for informative displays, and many other places not mentioned here.

As mentioned before, an angel statue depicts a unique theme or message. An angel donning armour is an emblem of truth and one bearing a sword depicts justice. As angels are basically associated with ‘message carriers’, they are meant to pass across a message. Thus they might be depicting various heavenly virtues like love, peace, protection…each time one sees an angel statue, he is bound by the ancient classics of mythological history and civilization.

Within the past week I have completed two embroidery pieces of angels. The patterns were used from a transfer book of angels that can be used for many different art and craft creations.


I also found a beautiful drawing/coloring page of a famous angel/cherub, Raphael, that would look wonderful embroidered as well.


Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483-1520) was a great, late Renaissance Italian artist. Raphael's Cherub is part of his Sistine Chapel murals (in the Vatican) that he painted in the early 1500s.