I love this commercial, it is so powerful

Here's to the crazy ones.  The misfits.
The rebels.  The troublemakers.  The round peg in a square hole.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And  they have no respect for status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
They can change the world
Are the ones who do.

(in order) Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), R. Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso. The commercial ends with an image of a young girl, Shaan Sahota, opening her closed eyes, as if to see the possibilities before her.

A Magical Garden

This is starting to get a fairy tale quality about it.

I have a "story" in mind but I want to leave it up to the viewer to create their own interpretation

or story line that suits them.

Also this makes it where the story can continue to grow and change

and that makes it more interesting for me as I work on it.

An ancient video of a top that Winston made

This was made about three years ago.  Look at how small Catherine is?  She is really going at it chewing her chewing gum.  We didn't buy that for them very often so that was a real treat.

  I thought I would share this because I don't have a lot to show in cloth right now.  I have been cleaning house and cooking.

My Magic Garden

"All the worlds a stage and we are merely actors."

I wanted to create a magical stage that I might add little pieces

that could be moved around and played with.

When I was a child I really enjoyed creating the scenes or props for my dolls.  

After I had kids I enjoyed giving them props and 

watching them in their environment.  

 

I think this is just a extension of playing and having fun.

The Spiral - a symbol.

 

(This cloth was made for me by Ancient Cloth.  Thank you!!!)

The Spiral

For me the spiral mean Expansion.  

It is a Unfolding of a seed.

It is Growth.

 

It shows a Journey and

a logical Progression.

It starts from Within and moves out...

But also what is out can also effect what comes in.

Ebb and Flow.

 Yin and  Yang.

 

It is not about speed.

It is not the shortest distance between two points.

It is about Digestion,

Assimilation,

Observing,

Creating.

Quilting in 3-D

 

  

 

  

  

  

 

The Kids

My husband just edited and put up this video of 

Winston our son's homemade Tesla coil. 

His hair was really long in this video. 

He got it cut last month and donated his hair to Locks Of Love. 

 

Here is Catherine and Isaac playing with a 1980's Tomy robot. 

They have had a lot of fun trying to get it to do voice recognition.  

Every time you turn it off it loses its memory.

The good old days. huh?

On the front of the table is an electric remote control boat that Isaac built.

He made it from an old electric car that he had.

He used the wheels shaft for the boats rudders so that it could be steered.

TEEPEE - Symbol

TEE-PEE BY ANCIENT CLOTH 

The teepee represents the family for me. 

It represents a journey shared with others going through this world with God 

(the tee-pee points up) as a guide. 

It reminds me of Abraham who searched for a city whose builder and maker was God.  

I have never bought a house, because I enjoy moving around.  

I wanted to experience a lot of different places. 

I have collected houses...different kinds of structures, and thus different living experiences.

A house is a stage we live our memories on. 

 

 There was a time when I wanted to have a baby in a tee-pee, but that didn't happen.

 

This quilt was inspired by
the year 2003 Feb comet ...the corrona of the sun looks like the eye of Ra and 

Van Gogh's Starry Night.  Did the star declare something to the earth? 

I don't know but I like historical quilts and wanted to make one.

 

This is the "spirit cloth" that Ancient Cloth did for me.  

I blogged about the Cicada,

The Eye 

The Fig

This Video is for Lynn and all those that want to come and lend a hand.

Spirit Cloth - The Fig

 Ancient Cloth's Spirit Cloth that she made for me; blogged about here.

The symbol of the figs represents PASSION. 

It means living a SUCCULENT life.  

I like the fact that it is organized as a pointalism of the tiniest seeds. 

The seed, to me, represent intentions followed by actions.  

As those intentions and actions ripen 

the fruit is sweetened and the aroma becomes fragrant.  

 To me this symbolically represents an authentic life.

A life that is connected through WISDOM and PURPOSE, 

to be lived for the design that I have been put on earth for.   

In my own art work of the figs I have put passion flowers around the edge. 

Living life on the edge requires that you be flexible.  

The catalyst for passion in creativity

 represented the ELIXIR of life, THE FIG. 

Figs are a small decadence that I give myself ever summer.  

I love taking pleasure in the small things of life.

Spirit Clothe - The Eye

 

This is the Spirit Cloth that my friend Ancient Cloth made for me.  

I picked the Eye as a personal symbol because it represents the Window to the Soul.

The Eye also represents Vision.

I wish to see things clearly, and also at different depths.

  

'The White Wizard' is a beaded barrette that I did for 2008 Bead Art Journal.

(I just wanted to show you something that I made with the symbol of the eye.)

To have Vision is to be able to think for one self.

To chart ones own course.

To be intuitive.

Being an individual.

The Eye also represents a Seeker of the Truth.

The one who questions conventional wisdom.

One who questions authority, 

when the purpose of authority is to remain in power.

And the best way for this to happen is to keep the people ignorant

and to not have the capacity to THINK.

A single eye is an eye with a Purpose.

An eye that does not waver to the left or to the right.

A Bulls-eye, one that is determined to hit the mark.

Maybe the eye has other meaning for you.

I hope that you will share them and 

enlarge the meaning of the symbol of the eye for me and other.