Art Beads.......Necklaces and Bracelet

My hand made art beads are piling up...

It's time to make some jewelry with them:

I love making these fat birdie beads!

Bird Necklaces

These are like potato chips...

you can't make just one!

Making more skeleton key necklaces...

I am hooked on making large hearts from clay.

This little birdie made into a bracelet...

I enjoyed working with an earthy color story

for this piece.

This is a mix of my hand made clay beads

and commercial beads with a button closure.

I created these horse pendants 

a couple weeks ago...

It was time to put them into necklaces.....FUN!

Black Fern Pendant...

I made this fern pendant a month or so ago...

last night I worked it into a necklace.

It has a silver button closure on the side.

The dragon fly charm fit nicely 

on the pendant.

The jewelry muse has a strong hold on me!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Orange Peel/Pumpkin Seed Quilt.....Progress

Last month I started this circle quilt...

my nickname for it is the Pancake Quilt.

Don't they look like piles of pancakes 

on the table?

There are 120 pancakes

This will make a large lap size quilt.

Today I am quilting the pancakes:

The template has 4 holes...

you mark the holes on the pancakes.

You draw an X on the pancake...

Now you are ready to quilt the pancakes...

Before I can begin quilting...

Ralph, the Quilt Palace cat, needs some scratching.

The walking foot helps keep the layers from 

shifting and helps me keep a straight line.

I am a factory style quilter...

so I am feeding the pancakes through 

assembly line style.

I completed more than 60 pancakes 

today.....progress!

More next Monday.

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LuAnn Kessi

Calving Season......2016

Our first calf was born last week...

We have Shorthorn mother cows and Angus Bulls

This calf was born yesterday...

Minutes after the calf hit the ground my favorite guy

is checking it over...

He checks to see if it is a bull or heifer calf...

He treats the navel with iodine.

The goats watch from the field nearby...

The goats will begin to kid soon.

We are across the river at the calving barn today.

From here we have a view of the back of our place....

The sun came out briefly and really lit up the red barn.

The black yearling calves are grazing along the river bank.

These calves were born this time last year.

After checking on the newborn calves, it is time to

load up hay for the yearling cattle...

Here comes the rain again...

We are back at home again:

This photo was taken from our back yard,

looking across river.

The two big white barns in this photo...

that is where we were checking on the new calves 

earlier today.

After dinner I put together a few necklaces

from some of my art beads:

I made these beads a few weeks ago...

I am fond of making those chunky bird beads...

These were painted with black paint and

then I rubbed the paint off.

We are already seeing a few spring birds that

have migrated to Western Oregon.

Spring is coming early again this year!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi