No regrets!

Sweet crochet.  A future tablecloth or a bedspread.  Now a shawl over my seater.  No regrets.  I love it!

unfinished and no way I will

PS
I remember my three children crocheting while I make my doilies and this... no texting and social networking at that time yet. 

wrap with love

Be kind to the earth.  Fill your bin with found and used things that will make beautifully wrapped presents. 

(back)

for a little girl (front)

for a little boy

for the entire family

1) have old colorful magazines at hand / a black and white magazine would give the retro look

2) keep those ribbons to make a pretty bow, tie the sides of a package together (challenge:  don't use clear tapes at all).  use interesting strings. 

3) recycle used paper bags (cover the brand with an interesting collage that tells about the person you are wrapping the gift for.

4) wrap with love.  say a little prayer or a good wish

5) don't get attached!  give those gifts away!

details

what would your details be? a colorful caterpillar amidst leaves and roses?

handstitches, pockets and tiny glass beads?

details on an old curtain stitched and shirred to create another version of the same material

details of a dream expressed on a cafe's wall

or details printed on a baby's skin that will forever belong to him and that will be the footprints he will leave wherever he goes.

when we tell a story, the details make it a different story from all the other stories.  our lives are marked by the details that would add up to a quilt of images that we hope we can always remember...

do you witness the details of your "love" as accurately as the bees do with their flowers?

we are not a boring pattern if we look closely.  if we call forth silence, beauty will unfold before our unbelieving eyes.

look at yours.  what are these details that make you a work of art?