Queen of Hearts...

Corny, I know - but I still love making hearts.  Always have, always will.  I keep making them for Sabrina and she doesn't have much interest in them - they're for "little girls."

NOT SO - say I.  Hearts are everywhere.  Carolyn makes beautiful textile hearts.  Babs makes gorgeous clay hearts.  My hearts - well, I like to start with a fabric base and then I attach all kinds of stuff - plastic, floss, yarn, fibers, wool, buttons, ribbons, etc.  I paint them, melt them, stitch them - whatever I feel like doing.  Many of my leftover scraps get turned into.... HEARTS.

The purple heart above, is one I made for Babs. I've loved purple since I was about 13.  It's still one of my favorite colors and I love working with it.

This is the Heart that Babs made for me.  It's clay painted in the most beautiful Earthy colors, embellished with copper and beads.  I love it.  I met Babs through the Girlfriend's Traveling Sketchbook.  Her stuff is so cool. 

 My  bezzy, Carolyn  (Love Stitching Red) , made me a delicious little purple heart (right).  I've admired her heat distressed, stitched and embellished work for a very long time.  You may remember the Global Warming piece she made for me a while back. Her work is so unique and her blog is a work of art in and of itself.

My mentioning hearts would be amiss had I failed to mention that Blaise, Sabrina and & I saw Alice in Wonderland this weekend at Imax in 3D.  In a word - MAGICAL. "What does that have to do with hearts?" you ask.  Helena Bonham Carter played the Queen of Hearts...

she was fantastic - as was Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.
Coolest movie - loved it!  "I need a PIG!!!"

My dear Sabrina.....

Heart's are NOT

 just for little girls.