Spring is arriving as I write!!!!

I haven't been in touch for a while because I have just been too busy.....but I'm baaaack!!

There are crocus, snowdrops, scilla and the first daffodils shining in my garden. PERFECT!!! Happy April everyone.

My nose is finally grafted, complete and doesn't really look like anything was done to it because a fantastic surgeon did amazing reconstructive work on it. Clever feller, Dr Hamilton.

I am back in the creative mode and made four really nice pieces in March. And have lots of ideas for my art to be made in April.

I went to Lancaster PA in March to the first AQS show in that state. Man I spent a lotta dollars on amazing fabric, fibre, patterns and just "stuff" that I need for my biz. I went with a bus load of other quilters so we had lots in common. Fun time.
There was also a great Fibreworks workshop with Anna Hergert last month. Have a small series coming out of that one!!

Altogether it has been a very productive and exciting couple of months.. and now it's Spring

Oh no it's cancer!!

I've had this weird scabby thing on my nose for months. The scab would fall off and we would go thru the same process every month or so. I finally got fed up with it and went to the doc tor and she said it's definitely a cancer. So two weeks later I am in the Peterboro Hospital getting this thingy removed by a surgeon. Now it is gone, but I have to have more surgery to cover up the hole in my nose... He's grafting skin from my cheek , go figure!!
Home care nurses have been wonderfully kind, cleaning it all etc. but the shock was pretty severe.
SO - the moral of the story is.......if you have a weird thingy anywhere on your body, get it seen to ASAP. Shirley

Facebook

Oh my, I'm turning into a techno geek.......Now I am updating and enlarging my Facebook page!! and finding people I know on there . I even put a picture of me and Isadora ( I am her #1 fan!!) up on it. Ain't technology GREAT!!

Yeehah, I did it!!

I have been struggling for several years to make myself a website without any success at all. However a web genie friend told me about Yola.com which is free and supposedly easy to use. This morning I cursed and fiddled and changed things and cursed some more, but FINALLY........it works. Check it out at www.shirleywhite.net.
It's barely started, just the first two pages are done, but it is definitely going in the direction I feel good about.
Let me know what you think. Shirley

Midnight Fairy, by Donna Hollywood

This piece is #1 from my co-challenger, Donna, whose theme is toadstools. The midnight fairy looks after things that grow at night, such as mushrooms and toadstools Donna says the only time she has ever seen fairies is at night, along with the fireflies !! Neat eh??
Shirley

Openings #1

This piece relates to an episode in my life that was dark and depressing.
I was driving to work on a very grey day with heavy cloud cover,
feeling really glum and despondent, but suddenly noticed a small break in the clouds above me.
I remembered that when I fly, the sun is always shining above the clouds, and realised my dark and depressing episode could also have sunshine if I let it in. It was a huge revelation, AND it allowed me to finally deal with the problems that were dragging me down.
There are layers of black netting which were cut away to show the blue hand dyed fabric, with different shades of grey wool rovings sandwiched in between the layers to create the dark sky. Lots of hand stitching emphasize the cloud formations. Shirley

Frustrating is the name of the game!!

Yesterday I was part of the Women's Art Festival in Kingston. Wonderful show with 200 VERY talented women artists, in the beautiful City Park setting. The show is very well attended, and is a lot of fun due to the fact that ya get to see all your women friends, either as participants or as attendees, and also meet some new artists. The only problem was that it was REALLY hot and humid. I did spend an hour in the new water garden with Isadora, my friend's 3 year old daughter, and I got totally drenched,and cooler,and developed a few more larf lines!!
I was having a great time, but said to Isadora, I really gotta go back to work, and she didn't even look up. She just waved her hand goodbye and carried on playing with the water...... so demoralising when you feel you are essential to the game at hand and a 3 year old puts you into a reality mode!!
However, when my clothes started to dry out I'm afraid I added somewhat to the steamyness of the day - and apparently I looked somewhat like a drowned rat!! Fun day.

and this morning I spent hours trying to upload some of my art into a slide show and didn't think I was very successful. However, this last try seems to have worked by golly. Hope ya like it.