August Reveals are up at Interpret This

My reveal post was moved up a day and is now posted over at Interpret This!

I zoomed in on the tower of one of the buildings and went with

Rapunzel!

hop on over to the IT blog and see the rest as well as the others wonderful takes on the photo for August.

The Final Girlfriends page!!

It has been a loooonnnggg time in getting to me but I finally received Kate's book! This is the last page and the last book for the Girlfriends traveling sketchbook round robin. Kate started this what seems like a year ago! Truly I had thought it was finished. Not so! Until now at last. This will be on its way to Kate's come Monday or Tuesday finally!

Kate's book is a folded six inch block. This is the front painted using the Inktense pencils. Some running stitches with cotton floss and a few glass beads.

Kate set Believe as the theme for her book so I inked in a line among the swirls to

'Believe in your Dreams.'

Then on the back there is much writing about believing, something to fill up the spaces.

Hope you like it Kate!!

August little peek

I have been busy finishing up my Interpret This! August piece. For now this is all you get to see... Tune in to the IT blog starting on the 27th for all the reveals. Mine is set for the 31st.

 I have been playing in my basement studio with a set of Inktense pencils. These are wonderful! Very much like a watercolor pencil except that these use ink. I have nothing I want to show as yet. Just experimenting with how they work. I can do fine lines and wonderful washes, smooth out scribbles and blend colors together easily. Once dry the ink is permanent. OOOOHH such FUN!!

august

August all ready! Wow, where does the time go?

No new stitching photos just yet. I am moving along with my IT piece fairly quickly. Just really need a few days in a row of energy and time combined to finish it.

Meanwhile in the garden we are growing this HUGE heirloom tomato! It is still green and getting bigger every time I look at it! The last heirloom tomatoes we grew were bumpy and pinkish and oh so good to eat, hope this one will be as tasty!

It has been hot here as of late. Too humid to really enjoy sitting outside in the evenings. As well as being too buggy from the mosquitoes. During the day we hear a chorus of cicadas first from one tree then the next. Loud loud and louder! There are lots of these casings hanging on the branches.