Scratching 2015

And so another year starts

Flowers for a fresh start

Happy Birthday Donna!

It snowed

then it rained

then it snowed

Ice beneath snow is not easy to cope with

It snows and snows and snows

while the wind blows and blows and blows

Spent the day at Diane's playing with soy wax

but also watching hundreds of water birds

feeding on the basin

as

the eagles soared high, high above.

Staying indoors out of the cold

weaving up some threads

Threading some beginnings.

Welcoming in the New Year

I'm starting off the year

going round and round in circles.

May 2015 go swimmingly for you all

and spiral with creative energy.

Scratching Out 2014

The last days of 2014

like the tides of time!

I've been stitching pebbles onto canvas

for a couple of paintings I have to do.

This year's Christmas Eve stocking is pinkish

in honour of Ashley Rose

who suddenly discovered she could string noises together

and converse with us over Face Time!

Brett arrived for a few days rest in our woods.

I always seem to do a Christmas Day star.

This one is dancing.

Some of my mother's paper piecing 

for this family time of the year.

Brett left after what must have been a very quiet week for a city boy!

And so another year of scratching comes to an end.

That is three years now.

The Night Before Christmas

I hope all your stockings are hung by the chimney with care.

Homeward Bound

Chugging back up the Basin

Coming home after a night's fishing.

Leaving their night's safe place

and on the lookout for breakfast

they paddled away from 

my dangerous Rusty Pups

diving intermittently as they went.

Mmmm....think I'll go home for my own breakfast.

Stitching Paths on Scraps Full of Memories

Is it not amazing

how a tiny scrap of forgotten cloth 

rediscovered

can evoke memories of times gone by.

So this week the scraps from the studio floor

had me thinking of times gone by

of stitches as footprints

of paths

sometimes running parallel

and sometimes crossing.

Rusty Pups

Our constant companions

Devoted to us as we are devoted to them

Exercisers

Feet warmers in the winter months

Face lickers

One Expert catcher of tennis balls

One expert at scratching her back on grass and snow

Guardians of our woods

Squirrel chasers...actually chasers of anything that moves

Barking announcers of visitors

Mud seekers

Source of serious dust bunnies in this house

Creators of dirty nose prints on clean windows

and much much more

So grateful am I