Sunday Snapshops #15

I met some friends for coffee at the Mendel Gallery this morning.  It's been AGES since I've done that!  Unfortunately it's another grey day outside so I didn't snap photos of the snowy river out the front windows of the cafe.

i'm addicted to coffee... but also interesting mugs.  meet my blog cup!  ; )

I headed over to the big bookstore to get lost in it and mope around looking for pretty things to inspire me.  Do you ever do that?  I found some beautiful books on embroidery and fibre art.  sigh.  I sat and looked through them, fully prepared to buy them.  But I changed my mind.  It's just not me.  One was fairies and one was little cut out flower petals.  All I could think about was making another prairie landscape.

I headed over to the magazine section.  There are dozens upon dozens of quilting magazines... either traditional or simple-modern.  And they are starting to look all the same because I'm seeing them everywhere. I appreciate them but I am not inspired by them at the moment.

I flip through Belle Amoire.  Gosh - gorgeous and luscious and oh my!  Check this out!

cover of Belle Amoire, Dec 2010

 
Is it the mood I'm in ?  This is GORGEOUS and I would wear it.  ; )  That is art meets quilter meets dressmaker.  It definately sparked my attention.  My current subscriptions are expired now so I need to think about what to get for the next year.  I really like Belle Amoire.

last year's Quilting Arts magazine pile

There were several quilting magazines that spoke of "hot new thread sketching - all the rage".  I almost bought one, and then thought - nah. I already do that.  And my artist mother's voice rang in the back of my mind, "do your own thing.  Don't go to art school because then nothing will be original anymore".  Her artist uncle told her the same thing.  In some respects I suppose that's true.  I really want to express my heart with fibre and thread but it just can't come out fast enough. I suppose that's what sketch books are for.  ; )  As I'm looking through other artists' work, all I could think about was making another prairie landscape.

my own detail of prairie grasses

Here's something I hadn't come accross before.  I looked through it at the bookstore.  It's Canadian and covers a wide variety of crafts from quiting to crochet, cross stitch to fibre art, knitting and embroidery...

A Needle Pulling Thread 

Maybe I'll go paperless with my Quilting Arts Magazine renewal.  I'm really looking forward to the day that the new issue of Quilters' Connection Magazine shows up in my mailbox!   In the mean time, all I can think about is making another prairie landscape.

~Monika
dreaming away ~