Queen of Arts Show and Sale in Solvang

Here's my spot at the show. We had a great turnout and three days of sales and visiting with friends. Syd started this show 13 years ago at her home in Ballard and its grown to 36 artists showing their creations at the Elverhoy Museum indoors and out.
Dawn made these great planters out of recycled tires!
New art friend, Sukey Hughes and I traded every day. She had paintings, prints, puppets, cards and shrines. I now have some great presents for family and friends.
Cindy's wonderful glittery pins and angels and shrines delighted everyone.
Barbara's felt scarves are always a big hit.
Sue and Vicki has some fun new items this year, dolls, hooked hot pads, luggage tags and cards.
A smiling Penny made special gift tags from vintage art, fabric collages, and brought tin robots, postcards, and paintings.
Carol had her jewelry, book arts, paintings and more....
Most of our rug hooking group showed up to shop and visit. Half of our group was in the show so it was fun to have their support and company.
Kristen's little doggie came to visit at the end of the show and I got to hold him. We finally got a photo of his wonderful ears...Kristin had to say " Where's your treat?" to get him to look at the camera.
We had a great 3 days with perfect weather and great friends....and lots of sales....most of us are happy but tired today and look forward to next year.

Owl portraits, Yarn tag, wool.....

Stayed up late, which is normal for me, and got these 2 owls finished up for tomorrow's show and sale. Took an owl family portrait, too, while they are all together...some may fly off to new homes this weekend.

My latest "Yarn tag"...visible from Hollister Ave. near Von's....I used an afgan from the thrift store for this one. It is fun and colorful and easy to see while driving by.
A nice pile of wool goodness awaiting me for a cupcake order coming up soon.

Tiny sweaters, more owls, and books....

Four tiny felted sweater garlands that I just finished up for the show this weekend. One more on the way!
Hope to finish up these owls by Friday....I drew them a little too close together but I think I can cut them apart and sew them up if I am careful.
Am enjoying this book.... and the one below is about the Yarn Tagging that I mentioned before.

And just want to say that I hope to be putting some of those little hooked heart pins in my ETSY shop later this month and thanks for asking.

I really appreciate all your visits and comments, I read every one and sometimes have to think a bit if you ask me a question, so I'm not ignoring you, I just don't know the answer right away!

Getting ready...

Mushroom ornaments for the Queen of Arts show...I think I made 2 dozen so far...

some wooly felted hearts with buttons and stitching...
and a funny doll that just got her new hairdo last night....lots more to do before the show on Friday.....

Happy Halloween You All!

Four little black wool kitties wish you a Happy and safe Halloween!
I made the fabric owl in the back row but the rest are my small collection of Halloween goodies.
Now that the boys are older and no costumes are being made, it's a bit calmer around here. But in years past I think Halloween was one of their favorite holidays and they had me making costumes up until the last minute...skeletons, power rangers, grim reapers, etc. I love seeing the neighborhook kids in their costumes trick or treating. We don't get very many up here in our mountain top community, just a few groups but it's still fun.
Driving down our winding mountain top road you will come across this witch hanging from a forest tree and her two companions below. Our 80 year old neighbor has put up decorations for Halloween for 20 years and they are still fun to look for. There is a giant black spider that also appears on Halloween by our creek and the Painted Cave hanging from a tree above the road. It is always gone the next day and we have no idea who puts it up....

By the way, if you are interested in the Yarn tagging, there is a good book on Amazon that I just ordered called "Yarn Bombing"...check it out! I think it is about mostly European sites, but full of fun ideas.

New Owl, cupcakes, heart, pins and Yarn Tag!

Here's the newest owl that I've hooked up for the show next week. Tonight I will sew him up and stuff him and start another hooking project.

More cupcake photos....I made 20 of them in many different flavors.
New heart with birdie hooked up this week.
And below some heart pins....
And now for something NEW! Have you ever heard of YARN TAG? Well, my art friend Jeanette introduced me to it and we are having fun tagging trees and poles with fun wool tags around our city. We give each other clues as to where they are and then see if we can find them.
Below are some that I've done and the last one is Jeanette's latest! I just love how she used the buttons to put it on the tree!
Jeanette even created a blog called http://yarntagyarns.blogspot.com/ to keep track of our activities. Go check it out!
And start Yarn tagging, if you are brave enough!


This one has a pocket on it!
Jeanette's lastest one in the Magnolia center....

Cupcakes, hearts,acorns, and a kitty...

Here are just some of the cupcake pin cushions I put together out of my collection of recycled wool felted sweaters. My friend, Syd and I had made some fiber cupcakes for our birthday party a few years ago, but when I saw the ones that Betz White made I got really inspired and cooked these up and had fun with the embellishing.
Some of the winged heart pins that I'm working on for the next show. Some have a tin heart and some have a fabric heart.
I also made over 100 fiber acorns! These have a real acorn cap but the bottom part is made from various fabrics, mostly velvet. Last year I put about 6 in a cellophane bag tied with a nice ribbon and sold them all.
The hooked kitty is finally completed. All stuffed and ready to go, I took him to the rug hooking meeting and Carol decided that she needed him, so he now has a nice new home in Carpinteria.