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Sharing Stories and Art

9/25/2017

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  Last week I flew to Dayton OH to visit friend Margot for a few days.  We have known   each other since 1973, remaining close even as she stayed in one place and I moved around a lot.

I took two rayon georgette blouses that I thought suited her, and a few bottles of fabric paint (because while cute, the blouses were a bit ordinary.  And Margot is not.)  So we undertook an exercise in fabric painting.  The textured old towel we put down as  base transferred its bumps to the painted leaves and stems very nicely.  Later Margot           added flowers to this border.

Working on this, and also knitting and stitching gave us a chance to catch up on family stories and remembrances. I made excellent progress on an art piece (not the wool  plaid one).  It was a lovely, short visit.

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Here is the border on the other blouse, a nice wandering vine with dark red flowers.  We let the paint dry, then heat-set the  work.

Fall in Ohio is very different from Texas.  Leaves were beginning to turn and the air was crisp in the mornings.  We drove    out to the country to buy apples, something our family did       every year while we lived there.  I do miss that.  I was sorry to  leave the apples behind due to limited luggage space.

Got home without incident, and the cat was happy to see me.  Oh, and I was able to navigate Margot's steep steps without  problems!  The new hip is working well.

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    Bobbe Shapiro Nolan, Fiber Artist in Eagle Lake, TX.  Trying to learn to call the sewing room my studio, and myself an artist.  I retired after 15 years in hospice nursing--so now I have the time!.

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