Being thankful

Happy Thanksgiving. 

I am just sharing a few thoughts on what I am thankful for. 

I am thankful for my family and all of us being happy and healthy. 

I am thankful for having a husband that supports everything that I do and who loves me to ends of the earth. I am thankful having a roof over our heads and foods in our belly. I am thankful our friends. I am thankful for my job and Steve's show. I am thankful for having creativity and a space to make. I am thankful for the most amazing son in the world.

I am thankful for being here. 

There is so much to be thankful for it is impossible to write it all down.

I am wishing everyone safe travels and a very happy thanksgiving today. 

Also I am thankful for all who read this. 

Liesl

Sketches

A lot of us have other jobs that keep busy along with our families. So I find that when inspiration strikes I will sketch it anywhere. I have all of these post-its everywhere, in my purse, my desk, my wallet, on my dresser, it is crazy. I really should just carry a sketch book with me. However like I said when it strikes you grab whatever paper is around and get it down before you loose it.

So with winter fast approaching I thought I would share a few of them with you. Do you have piles of ideas everywhere? 

I hope I get these put into reality soon. Thanks for reading and following. 

Be Creative, Liesl 

Fine Furnishings show

Over the weekend we went to the Fine Furnishings show in Pawtucket RI. It was a great show. It is a small one so it is great to when you have kids or a little bit of time. 

This year they included a quilt show by the The Rhode Island Modern Guild. 

It was a great show. Here are some fabulous images of some of the quilts.

 You might remember this one form an earlier post. It was really nice to see it again. 

 I love all of the colors on the soft grey background.

 Look at the details in this one!!! I love all of the textures they created in this one.

 This one I found striking and eye catching.  With all of the fabulous bright colors against the white and the black boarder, fabulous! 

This one is a great color and I love what  I will call pinwheels. 

Ans this is just a tasting of what they had on display. Here is a list of all of the quiltesr who participated.

Denuse Lamb, Jenn Galloway,Jodi Meenan, Karen McCann, Kathy Graves, Leslie Lowenstein, Meredith Skelly, Sisan Smallman, Sue Ahnrud, Suzanne Munroe, Tara Celeste, Tina Graig, Tara Coogan

Thank you all for sharing your beautiful work.

As always thanks for reading. 

Have a creative day, Liesl 

Fall, apples and pumpkins

I love fall, it means it is time for apple picking and well making everything apple. Oh and it is time for pumpkins too! 

It is Columbus day weekend. Which means it is a three day weekend!! I love three day weekends! So we went apple and pumpkin picking. My two guys below having fun looking for the best apples. 

 Don't these apples look fabulous? Oh my gosh they taste fabulous.

 Here they are looking for the perfect pumpkins to carve. I can wait till we carve them, that means pumpkin seeds to roast. Yummy!!

 We went for a walk at a local place here is Quinn taking it all in. It looks amazing. 

Here is the what is taking in. Beautiful. 

I hope that you all are having a fabulous long weekend and fantastic fun filled fall. As always thanks for reading. 

Liesl

October update

Happy October everyone!! This is a great month here is New England. The colors are changing and man are glorious this year. More one that latter.

The below image is of a shipment of metal I just received!! So exciting. Isn't is beautiful? I love getting new metal, I always have a hard time cutting into it for the first time. But work awaits me. I have many project to get done and to finish now that I have what I need. Keep post ot see what comes out of the it.

 Below is me working on Quinns quilt. I still have a long way to go. Maybe by Christmas I will have it all done. It is taking longer then I thought. And we have had several colds and what nots go through the house making it hard to work on it.  I know that I am no good when I am sick. Oh well. It is coming out wonderful though. Quilting take patience. And I love doing it by hand. 

As always thank you for reading my friends,

Happy fall and be creative.

Liesl

Coggeshall Farm Quilt

When we went to Coggeshall Farm there was this amazing quilt in the house. It was beautiful. It is by a lady names Tara Celeste. I love the colors in it!! I also loved how she captured the wonderful place that is Coggeshall Farm.

 I am not sure if you can read all that she wrote about the quilt, but I had to put it. 

 That is my arm point out the stitching that is done like a wave. As the farm in on Narraganset bay, it is only fitting. 

Once again it was a great day with the family and I hope you all are enjoying fall. 

I have been working on nothing but Quinn's quilt in hopes that it will be done before the snow fly's. I have my fingers crossed. I already have my next few quilts planned out. I however refuse to start them till I finish Quinn's. I am hoping to getting in the jewelry studio soon, as I need to get in there for some unfinished projects and repairs need to get done before it gets too cold. Can you believe that we are already thinking of winter? So sad. Oh well it comes every year.  

Thanks for reading. Have a creative day. 

Liesl

Apple Pie Contest

On Saturday we went to the Coggeshall Farm Harvest fair. O my gosh it was great fun! Quinn and I entered the Apple Pie Contest. It was so much fun to make the pie with him. He as so excited. We had a great time there. It was in Bristol RI, so right next to the water and the sunshine it was fabulous. 

 The image above it the filling we made. We used three different kinds of apples. yum!

 Here it is baking!! The house smelling so good. 

 Completed!! Doesn't it look amazing? 

Here they are tasting and judging all of the pies. Quinn was right in there making sure he heard everything. Only good things to say about ours.

Here is what the table looked like after the judging. 

Sadly we did not win, and they only picked a grand prize winner. If you ask Quinn we came in a close second. I'll take it. We won some great maple syrup that was made on the farm. It was a blast. And I will do it again if the opportunity comes up again.