Thursday, July 21, 2011

Look Who's 1 Year Old Today....


That's right! My sweet little grand daughter is 1 year old today.Her mommy (Framed by Amber) took this picture and the little dress was made by Rosie Rose.Happy Birthday Auna, Nana loves you very much.

Live Deeply,
Vicki

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Teaching Rug Hooking in Clarksville.....

Miss Auna is almost a year old now and she thinks she is a big girl.She is trying to feed herself.She did get a little of it in her mouth but most of it got on her face and hands.

This last weekend I taught a rug hooking class for an art group in Clarksville,Ar. I had a great time and I hope the ladies did too.

It was a beginning hooking class and everyone worked hard and did a great job.

Lynn was my hostess for the weekend.I really enjoyed getting to know her, her hubby and her mom.

Kaethe got comfy on the couch as she hooked.

Sherry is working on a horse.

Janie is making great headway on her rabbit.

Barbara is working on a bird.

Sally's little sheep are coming out very cute.

We added some green strips in the background of Lynn's horse.

I hope all the ladies will send me pictures of their finished rugs.

Live Deeply

Vicki

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Funny,Funny,Funny..


I love this lady's work! I hope to take a class with her someday.

I love this video! Can't tell you how many times I have see someone wearing something that caught my eye and all I could think of is "that would look great in one of my rugs."I love hooking with recycled wool.

Live Deeply and recycle something,
Vicki

Monday, July 4, 2011

I Love My Country......

Happy 4th of July to everyone!I hope ya'll have a safe and wonderful day.I feel very lucky to live in the USA and I love my country.But there are people in this country who are trying to change our history.I keep hearing about our Constitution saying we have "separation between Church & State".That the church should stay out of the "State".If you read the letter I have posted below you can see where that saying came from and what it was meant to be talking about.Thomas Jefferson wrote this letter to a church that had wrote him with worries that the "state"was trying to tell them what to do.Jefferson's letter make it clear that he was talking about the "state" staying out of the church not the other way around.Below is a link to where I got the copy of this letter.

Jefferson's Wall of Separation Letter

To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.

Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.

I hope we as a country will take back our history and teach it to our children the way it really happened.

Live Deeply,
Vicki

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Hooking Today....3 Cut......

I started working on this little violet pincushion that the students of Victoria Hart Ingalls did at the NWA Hook-in.I was teaching a class so I could not take her class.So I bought the kit and now I am working on it.

You might notice all the values of the greens laying at the top of my frame.He you have looked at my blog for very long, you know I am more of a primitive hooker.But I am trying to learn to fine hook.

I have all the hooking done now and I will get the rest on the pincushion done soon. I also started the edge of the jar rug.I started with one color and got it half done but I ran out, so i had to take that out and find different
color wool.I am pushing it close on that color too, but I think it will work.

Live Deeply,
Vicki

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

I Need A Help....Please...

Midwest Fiber and Folk Art Show so over, this is my booth all packed up.Doesn't look like much like this.As much as I love fiber shows,I am not sure this is my market.I meet some great people but the show did not pay for itself.I don't know if I had kits for needle felting and rug hooking, it may have helped.Seemed that most of the money being spent was spent on supplies and not the "folk art" part of the show.How do you pick shows to do?How do you know what show is the best for your art?How do you sale "your" art to the people at a show? I am not a good salesperson at all. I tend to take the low presser style "Hello. if you have any questions please let me know".So as you can see, I am questioning if I am doing the right thing by doing shows at all.

This week I have been hooking.I just finished the hooking on this rug.May need to change one of the flowers on the side.This is the rug I did in Anita White's class at Eureka Springs Rug Hooking Camp.