As you saw in a previous blog entry I showed off the murals that I painted in my girls room. Both girls started out there lives living ‘Under the Sea’. The quilt I’m showing off in this entry is one that was given to my daughter Cedi by my aunt Barb and her daughter Katrina […]
2009 Dyeing Day Workshop! Part 2
What’s for lunch? What a great question. I haven’t quite figured out the details yet since I’m not sure how many people are planning on attending. I can assure you that there will be plenty of it and it will be yummy! Make sure to sign up today! http://merr.com/users/lapacek/dyeing_day.htm
Bling Bling!
Last Saturday I was at Capri Gallery in Poynette, WI, for the a special ‘meet the artist’ afternoon. I was there along with two other jewelry makers and one antique jewelry collector. It was wonderful to meet other’s that share my passion for jewelry making. One of the other’s there, Jodi Anderson, from Odilla Products, […]
Treasury Saturday (of course)
I have been doing these treasury Saturday features for a few weeks now…to find out more about them click on “What is A Treasury.” Again, I have managed to curate in quite a few treasuries and have been featured in a few myself this past week. Here are the beautiful curations: I’m going to switch […]
An Interview with Chris from PalominoMorgan
PalominoMorgan makes adorable stuffed bunnies for your kids to play with…here’s her story… Tell me a little bit about your background in arts and crafts.When did you first start creating things? I have always had a very vivid imagination and I was creating things from my earliest memories. My brother and I would make elaborate […]
An Interview with Karma Lapacek…Creator of 'True Lover's Knot'
I was lucky enough to marry into an incredibly talented family. I’ve shown off my mother-in-law’s work and today I want to shop off one of the quilts my sister-in-law put together…the True Lover’s Knot. This fabric is absolutely stunning. Karma chose an amazing swirly, colorful patterned commercial fabric and then accented it with fabric […]
An Interview with Kate from digibling
I first discovered digibling‘s shop when I was looking for another little Christmas gift for my brother. My brother is a computer NERD! (Sorry Brian, but it’s true) and I ended up getting him MICROCHIP CUFFLINKS (I know, how perfect is that for a computer nerd?)! Of course, he loved them and now everyone at […]
2009 Summer Dyeing Workshop!
Yup! It’s time to get ready for the 2009 Summer Dyeing Workshop Sponsored by Quilts By Barb! Once again it will be held a Lapacek’s Orchard in Poynette, WI. Hopefully we will have a wonderful and gorgeous day for dyeing and will be able to do it out in the sun and on the lawn…otherwise […]
Butterfly Garden
In 2007, I only attended one day of the Quilts By Barb Crazy Extravaganza because my baby was still pretty little and I couldn’t leave her for too long. I decided to try out a convergence technique that I learned from the book ‘Ricky Tims’ Convergence Quilts: Mysterious, Magical, Easy and Fun” to create this […]
Treasury Saturday – New Feature!
Happy SATURDAY everyone! It is absolutely gorgeous here right now…41-degrees! It’s so beautiful outside…and it’s been so bitterly cold for so long now. I’ll definitely have to take a walk or something later and enjoy this weather! Yup, you’ve guessed it. It is treasury Saturday! I have treasuries from etsy to show you that I […]