People who visit my art fair booth often ask if they can put a battery candle inside my fabric ginger jars to create a lamp.  I tell them that two layers of fabric plus heavy interfacing make the ginger jars opaque. 

Guila Greer from my art quilt group (extremequilters.com) told us about a worldwide project to create 12” square quilt blocks for charity quilts.  The blocks are being shipped to Australia, where they will be assembled into quilts for families in Australia who have lost their homes in the wildfires. 

A real parrot and his human companion visited my birds at the Issaquah Salmon Days festival in Issaquah, Washington on October 5th and 6th.

Cats can’t resist my fabric bowls. I’ve learned from friends, family and customers that as soon as they get a nice bowl home and placed in the perfect spot, kitty kidnaps it and turns it into his or her new favorite napping spot. Most cats fit pretty well in a full-sized bowl. Not that it matters! A customer shared this photo with me today at the Kings Mountain Art Fair. This is her 20 pound cat settled into a Frida Kahlo bowl that she purchased at last year’s fair.