2016 Projects – TQS BOM 2016
The May border for my 2016 Block of the Month for The Quilt Show is complete!
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Photo Friday – Mirror Montage
This has been one of my favorite challenges thus far in the class. We were to create a “Mirror Montage” with a mirror image of an original image sitting on top of it. Here’s mine of a tulip:
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Photo Friday – Red
This week’s photo challenge was to shoot a photo with red as the dominant color. I was thinking about the challenge walking to work the next morning after reading the lesson and I realized that I had just gotten off a Red Line T train, walked past some lovely red …
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2016 Projects – #BringItHome – Playroom
This week, I finally finished one of the items on my to do list to “finish” a room. All I needed to do was to hang pictures in my daughter’s playroom, which is now done. Here’s the Before picture, from the night we moved into the house: A year and …
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Photo Friday – Spring in the Public Garden
Okay, I blew off this week’s Photo Challenge assignment. This week we were to take a picture of a loved one. Not a hard assignment and I did take several cute photos of my daughter, but we got home at 10 pm and I just couldn’t bring myself to turn …
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Photo Friday – Dreamscapes
This week’s photo challenge used Photoshop to create a “dreamscape.” I spent many an hour eyeballs deep in Photoshop trying to get it to work and finally, after some great advice from some of my fellow students in the class, I landed on this: I have to be honest though, …
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Photo Friday – Golden Hour
This week’s photo challenge was to capture a photo during the “Golden Hour,” that time before sunset when shadows are longer, the light is golden and everything looks softer. When reading about the effect of Golden Hour light, I immediately thought of the golden daffodils in my front yard that …
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2016 Projects – #APQResolution – April
It’s an embarrassment to me just how many things in my UFO drawer only require 5 – 10 minutes worth of work to finish them. This month’s UFO needed a hanging sleeve and then needed to be hung. The quilt itself has been finished since 2008? 2009? And now, it …
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Photo Friday – Lexington Green
Our photo challenge this week was “Happy.” I took the easy route and submitted a photo of my daughter painting her hands blue. (She was making hand prints on paper and having a lovely time getting covered in paint.) However, since we have a No Kid Photo Online policy, I …
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2016 Projects – #BringItHome
I’m a little late on my posts this week. Monday was a holiday here in Massachusetts. (Patriot’s Day – We had Red Coats and Continental Soldiers on Mass. Ave. on Sunday and Paul Revere rode by on Monday on his way from Boston to Lexington.) And yesterday, I decided to …
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