Painting lives on....

Hey look! 

Fayesart still paints:

 I believe I've posted the one above before but it's one of my favorites.

 "Tree escape"

"Peach Preserves"

Just finished a little tribute to our apartment.

A visit

Sugar Beet and Scooter got to visit me the other day:

Aww that face will melt your heart

I finished my quilt!!

 I can't believe it......after over 2 years I finally finished hand quilting my quilt.

These aren't the best pictures because of the light, but it is beautiful and it's more beautiful because it's actually done!

 A big thank-you goes out to my mom, sister and grandma who all added a few stitches to this quilt.
And to my husband my biggest encourager and cheer leader.
I made this quilt without a plan and I don't really have a plan for it now...but it is lovely and done.

 The cloth is either leftover from other projects or bits and pieces of cloth I had or Grandma gave me.

 HeHe...Pardon me while I do my finished project dance.

Yippee!!!

What should I start next???

short apartment tour

Since I showed you the outside I thought I'd give you a little peak inside.

The red kitchen was red when we moved in , but my darling added the wonderful shelves and hooks for coffee cups which helps with a bit of storage and counter space this little kitchen lacks.

 A small kitchen is actually quite efficient because everything is right at your fingertips! one sunday I believe we fit 5 people in it.(not terribly comfortably:)

 This was in summer also .... note the fan.

The chairs we picked up along with three bolts of upholstery fabric and an air conditioner at a garage sale on our honeymoon (we were meant for each other both my hubby and I like a good deal) for $15 and I recovered the seats with some of the fabric. Can't say I would want to Reupholster for a living but it was very rewarding and I think they look great!

I love that we have a piano (heaven know how they got it up the stairs)
And that's the front room and the kitchen...just to give you a taste.

First Apartment Garden

So it's been awhile since I posted . Life has been crazy what with getting married and moving and all, but I wanted to show you my little scrounged together Garden on the loading dock of our building.

My Hubby and I's first home is a downtown upstairs apartment. Full of charm and....a quite a few stairs.

 These pictures were taking earlier in mid summer. I had tomatoes in buckets, glad bulbs bought on our honeymoon. Scrounged pots and pots brought from my home and even a little make do table saved from the dumpster.

 The teapot and cups were salvaged from a collection of misfit pottery my dad made and left in an old shed on the home farm.

 Look! fresh tomoates!!!

 I do have to say that one of my favorites was the basket of wave petunia hanging from the balcony...they bloomed all summer long and are now just shriveled up for winter.

Now that we will most likely be moving soon...I look back fondly to our little garden:) on to the next adventure! maybe even a real flower bed? we shall see......

job continued

 Newest project: the champagne lady. I did not draw this one out,but I get to finish color coding and cutting out the over 5,000 pieces! more than a weeks worth of work.

Labeling and seperating the pieces. It's gonna be months and months til these pieces of paper will become an amazing work of art.

new job.

 So I started full time work at bogenreif stained glass studios in June...it has been interesting and fun and monotonous, but the final products are beautiful! This is just an idea I sketched out for a waterfall window.

 This is the my very first design that was actually turned into a window. It was fairly simple for this studio, but exciting to see my pencil design come to life!

 This window wasn't very big, but oh the little pieces it had! I got to practice my foiling skills as each piece needs to be lined in a copper tape so that the soder will stick the window together.

 Here's a close up of my workstation for the week.

 This is a piece of glass that actually came from the tiffany studios. it had actual waves in it and we used it to make the folds of a ladies dress.

 The giant 17'' dome is finally coming together...amazing! the bottom two pictures are of a redraw I did out of a clients drawing. I just had to make it possible to make out of glass.
The top drawing is mine and the bottom is the original.

End of summer Tomato pie

 I decided to use up the last of the fresh apples and tomatoes in an odd but delishious summer pie.

 pie crust, cream cheese, apple slices, onions,

 Green and red tomatoes, fresh rosemary,

 and sharp cheddar cheese!

 yum! it was tasty too. :)

And breath...

 So yes it has been months and months since I last posted. Oops.
A quick recap of life: 2 jobs, a boyfriend, and online college class, famers market, regular family life and regular summer busyness... and now it's autumn .....sigh.... I can breath again.

 It has been a wonderful busyness and I've enjoyed all the challenges and joys. One of my highlights has been my small cut flower enterprise for farmers market. God showed me a special glimpse of his love through these seemingly useless beauties.

 Seeing flowers that I planted from little tiny seeds produce big beautiful blossoms has been such a joy. I loved giving away the flowers that I didn't sell and the work of twice sometimes three times a week markets was so worth it.

 Now that the first frost has ended the season I am already plotting my flowers for next year.
Zinnias galore, globe amaranth, sunflowers, calendula, and sweet peas....????

Making cookies

Last lazy sunday afternoon we all wanted cookies, so in our sunday best and cute vintage aprons my niece and I got busy. 

 She didn't want me to put the chocolate chips into the cookies and cried as she saw them mixing into the dough "just wait til you eat them in the dough, don't worry you will get a taste" I soothed as the mixer spun on and we popped the inevitable spare chocolate chips into our mouths.

" dookties?" she repeated as we put the sweet chocolate flecked mounds on the cookie sheet.

 When the timer finally went off she raced into to kitchen yelling "Faye!! Dookties!!" I placed a little cookie onto a plate and warned her that is was hot as I mimicked blowing. She raced to get to her stool and started to eat the warm cookie the melted chocolate smudged on her face and hands.

"yum...is it good?" I asked. I got a mumbled answer as my little helper munched away on her sunday dooktie.