Morning Ladies,

I love both of your pieces! They look etherial and delicate. Susan, are you using organza in the bottom part with the tree? I love the lacey snow. Elizabeth shared that yesterday, but I forgot how she said you did it. Both of your new pieces have beautiful wording and that is something I want to try.
Elizabeth, your stamped images are remarkable and I think the cut edge border you did is just a perfect border to match the thorniness of the the thistles.

Both of your pieces make me want to experiment with some messy stuff, although I am really trying to keep my messes to the bare minimum in case we have to show the house. It is putting a crimp in my creative nature. ( A big part of the crimp is also that most of my messy toys got packed and sent to the basment:)

I got a new book yesterday the is called Fabric Collage. I bought it because there are some interesting techniques to try with stabilizers and batting. I am thinking that at least one of those techniques will end up in the March piece which I think will be about butterflies.

The horse challenge has grown much bigger than I had anticipated--it is now 60" and I want to finish it already. I am only going to complete the top and then it goes into the magic closet with the other summer tops so that I can concentrate on our challenge.