http://www.robayre.com/news Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:42:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } This morning at 6:40 a.m. I received a phone call from my brother telling me that their baby was just born. A boy. It's ... http://www.robayre.com/news/2010/03/09/birth-day/    Just a couple collages I did recently. The left has a "postage stamp" I painted in watercolors, and the right one contains the CMYK color samples we printed at my work years ago and have provided miles and miles of material for my collage work. http://www.robayre.com/news/2010/03/08/some-collages/ finally, finally, finally I got to see the documentary Herb & Dorothy. I remember when I first heard about this movie, I added it to my netflix queue, saving until it came out on dvd. Recently I saw someone mention that they ... http://www.robayre.com/news/2010/03/05/herb-dorothy/ (today's 365 screen cap) Oh Gosh. March has stormed in with a gust of inspiration. I have two pages of my full sized sketchbook just filled with ideas for things I want to do. It's one of those time periods where the days are just not long enough --- I love twitter, don't ... http://www.robayre.com/news/2010/03/03/inspiration-junkie-post/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }  The countdown to spring is on! 19 days left. If the rest of those 19 days are as nice as today was, this should be ... http://www.robayre.com/news/2010/03/01/welcome-march-2/ It's the final day of Thing-A-Day. This month was just sooo busy, and I am glad to welcome March.  If you hear a loud sigh, that would my exhale, letting go of a lot of stress that has built up this winter. I am so excited for spring, and the ... http://www.robayre.com/news/2010/02/28/day-twenty-eight-page-spread/ Today my sister, mom and I went to my aunt's house where she taught us how to do a quilt pattern called "scrappy nine". This is how far I got today. Each block is a foot square, so 3'x3' in total right now.  You start with one square of 9 different fabrics ... http://www.robayre.com/news/2010/02/27/day-twenty-seven-quilt-pieces/ Today's Thing-A-Day project is exactly 6 months overdo. I have Fridays off, so I spent more time working on today's project than I have on a lot of the projects this month. In fact, I made the pouch once, decided it might be a good time to finally look up a ... http://www.robayre.com/news/2010/02/26/day-twenty-six-zippered-pouch/ One thing I've been thinking about this month is how I wish that Thing-a-Day was in the summer, when there was plenty of sunlight and hours to work in daylight after I get home from work. http://www.robayre.com/news/2010/02/25/day-twenty-five-more-pages/ Today I received some new ring blanks I purchased recently. I was very excited to make some paper wrapped spiral rings, like the pendants I've made and had success with before. They will take about 24 hours to harden and then if everything goes well, I'll be adding them to ... http://www.robayre.com/news/2010/02/24/day-twenty-four-on-rings-and-how-we-spent-our-evening-yesterday/