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Manne just keeps on working.  Apparently inspiration is for amateurs  -you have to keep working each day to be a pro.  And so, Manuela has made a few more fabric flowers.

We have two shows coming up in July.  The Plant Paradise Country Gardens:  Delphinium Festival & Art in the Garden is July 4 & 5.  The Grand Valley Open Garden Show is July 11.    Mannie, therefore, has been busy making embellished fabric flower pins.  Each petal is made separately and then the  flower is assembled.  Even the button middle is hand embellished to create a unique flower centre.  The amount of time taken to make each one and the one-of-a-kindness (she can't make two the same)  makes each fabric flower a work of art.  

Life just got in the way-an excuse I've been using a bit lately.   Nevertheless, sickness, engineers, landscapers, pavers, art groups: all have conspired to deter me from my work and the the blog. Yet, somehow I found some time to add to my Puzzle Series.   I am not going to put them all up on my blog until they have been shown.   Then again, this one has been put up so I can look at it more objectively as an image. The lines were burnt into wooden panels and then I painted with fluid paints between those lines.  Please, provide me with feed back.