Deirdre’s Sloppy Studio

I spent time in the studio this weekend!  WHOO HOO!

Here is a painting I’m working on – I’m not sure if it’s finished or not

Acrylic 24×30
Gallery-wrapped Canvas

The Quilt Mavericks were talking about the need for an annual event celebrating Strong Women.  Today (June 10) happens to be a day when one of our members will be showing her Strength. So we have Officially declared June 10th:

Strong Women’s Day!

Today celebrates strong women everywhere.  Please show your support and share this event with everyone.  Strong Women are everywhere.

Of course this quote fits perfectly!

“A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.”
–  Eleanor Roosevelt –

And on the 2nd day… God created…

May was a whirlwind of activity and I’ve had no time to blog.  I’ve hardly had time to read a blog!  So this month I hope to make up for my lack of posts.

I’m sitting waiting for Marilyn Sholin’s webinar to begin – She has so many people signed up that I wanted to make sure to have a good seat!  LOL

So as a recap – last post was about the Northern Star Quilters’ Guild Quilt Show. We had a GREAT SHOW and I saw wonderful quilts.

I got to take photos of all the quilts – I haven’t finished editing them all yet, but you can see almost all of the quilts which were in the juried show.  I’ve put them on the guild website and there is a link on the home page.

Hope you enjoy the quilts, I know I did.

This was my favorite quilt in the show.

…and you are invited!

If you are near Somers, NY this weekend, Northern Star Quilters’ Guild is having their annual quilt show – this is their 30th show!  You can find information (and directions) about A WORLD OF QUILTS XXX on our website*.

This year we have Sharon Schamber and The Artgirlz (Tracy & Allison Stilwell) as our lecturers.  I’ve taken a few classes with Sharon and really like her.  Besides being Über -talented, Sharon is one of the nicest people you will ever meet.  If you get a chance to take a class with her – just DO IT – jump right in!

Last night I got a chance to meet Tracy & Allison – these 2 women are over the top NUTS!  Of course I mean that in the nicest way!  I’m going to be spending some time with them today and tomorrow doing the AV for their lecture.

*Did I mention that I designed, maintain and host their website?  We get so many nice comments about the site, and I keep meaning to write a special post about the site.  It seems that I just never get the time, so I’m going to add it to this post.

Soon we will have photos of the quilts from the show on the website.  I am the publicity and photography chair for the quilt show.  Last night I took around 450 photos of the quilts and the setup.  Today I’ll be taking some detail images.  I am so excited and inspired by the talent that I saw – SO COME TO THE SHOW!  HURRY!

Virginia Spiegel’s Collage Mania Fiberart For A Cause will be held May 5-7.  Here is my submission, I finished up an earlier collage I had worked on.  The flowers are finished with small glass beads for some added sparkle.

Please support the Cause, look at the  wonderful art and maybe bring one home!