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is it art?

This quilt called Is It Art? by Melanie Martin was the Best of Show winner at the New Zealand Quilt Symposium in Palmerston North in January.
As you can imagine, it caused quite a stir within a somewhat conservative quilting community.
The maker had apparently done considerable research around street art tagging and all it's subtleties before embarking on the project. Personally I loved it and the fact that it challenged our thinking about both graffiti and quilting, and how both are viewed in both society and the art world.

hydrangeas

My garden is full of hydrangeas and I have take a zillion photos of them over the summer. I love hydrangeas. Once upon a time I hated them. My grandmother had them in her garden when I was a child and I thought they were flowers 'just for old ladies,' like lavender. Now I love both.

christmas is for kids

That's one of my mothers many truisms which I have tried not to buy into all my life. However it is nice having kids around on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.

All ready for Santa with a beer and cherries plus a carrot for Rudolph. Sorted!

It's taken me over a week to get this published. 

Maybe my New Years resolution is to be more on to it!

kinda looks like christmas

The cake is iced, the tree is decorated..kinda looks like Christmas.

christmas cake - √

The Christmas cake is made. I bake it in a wooden box which cooks it perfectly with no burnt edges. It has been 'fed' with brandy top and bottom, wrapped and put away. I will feed it once more at the beginning of December then again when I ice it. Feels good to be organised and I know it will taste all the better for it.

celebrating kaffe

Today I wandered out my front door to find a parcel of Kaffe shot cottons that had arrived, all the way from America.

Any then my friend Paula, completely out of the blue, sent me a link to a Kaffe video. It must be a day for celebrating Kaffe.
This is the link she sent me.


Then I explored Vimeo for some more movies and found these two:


Kaffe 2014: The Colourful World of Kaffe Fassett from Animated Magic on Vimeo.


Meet Kaffe Fassett on Creativebug from Creativebug on Vimeo.
It just makes you want to get out all your fabrics and start playing!