Journey Seeds

flea market finds

vintage apron

blue vase with hydrangea & counted cross stitch runner

 vintage buttons for a friend...

Spring Eggs & Mother Holle

Cloth Eggs made by E.

Handknitted mouse from Knitted Toys by Zoe Mellor.

A lovely tale of Mother Holle told in German at the Waldorf Kindergarden.

Pocket Curtain

I started working on a Pocket Curtain out of the book Simple Sewing.  I wanted it to have some color in it, so I choose to use a few colors for the pockets against a white curtain background.  I used 100% linen as it was on sale at 40% off.  

Simple Sunday Collage

Knitting Needles

Flickr Photos

You don't need Knitting Needles to Knit

Simple Sunday Collage

Aprons

All Photos from Flickr 

Vintage Sewing Machine

We found this gift for my daughter at the local Flea Market this week.  Vintage...beautiful condition!  The owner was the seller and he knew all about the machine which was nice.  E loves anything vintage.  Why don't they make machines like this anymore?  Everything is plastic.  This is a piece of artwork!  

Winter

 This showed up in my inbox today from Rising Tide North America.  It's about False Solutions to Climate Change.  Learn about things that are being hidden from you.

Saying Goodbye To Winter.  Mary Azarian is one of my favorite artists.  This was a gift this past Christmas from my Mom and Dad.  

A new book for Emma and I.

Toads hang about all year here. Gnomes and fairies have been known to hide here as well.

I am thinking about planting a garden devoted to Dye Plants this year.  Here is a comprehensive list of Dye Plants.  We have alot of projects going around here so not sure if it will happen but, it's something I've wanted to do for a long time.

Green is peeking up everywhere!

Simple Sunday Collage

Quilt Collage

All Photos taken by Artists on Flickr (search quilts to find these artists).

On Conflict and Consensus

This booklet is a good review of the Consensus model of Formal Consensus Decisionmaking.  

Consensus is the website for resources for this model of organizing.  

Our Collective met yesterday to participate in a Conflict Resolution Workshop.  We covered many areas from talking about internal issues in the Collective, to problem solving, learning/reviewing positive forms of communication...with role playing activities to help facilitate positive change.  While it is was agreed upon that the meeting would remain confidential...I thought it helpful to post the important above links to go over and review.  

Conflict Soup

Today at a local Collective, we are having a Conflict Resolution Workshop.  We've had alot of internal problems at the Collective. Today is an attempt to perhaps begin to heal those issues or see if what we need to do is end our effort.  I'll write more about the workshop later. Collectives are difficult beasts to maintain.  I made a Vegan Soup for the day...one of those throw everything in the pot type of soups!

Here is some thrift fabric that I picked up for projects as yet to be determined.  An entire piece of wool felt, wool sweater, flashy red/black print fabric and a round tablcloth on top.  I will most likely make creatures or dolls with this stash.

Art Quilt

House Art Quilt

Here is another first attempt at an art quilt.  I used fusible web to secure the pieces down.  I then sewed around the edges a bit with no particular pattern in mind.  The fabric is hand-dyed from Art Fabrics...which I got a bunch of years ago.  It's been fun to dream up projects from fabric I have laying around.  I have a long way to go in learning about art quilting techniques and journal picture making.