LANDSCAPES - FOR SALE

 FOR SALE

The landscapes you see here are all for sale!

Each one is created with fabric and features embroidery, painting, and many other techniques to create the images you see here.  I enjoy all that is old and abandoned - houses, churches, barns and vehicles. Most of the ones on offer here measure approximately 20" - 30" wide and have a hanging sleeve attached.

If you are interested in purchasing a piece of my art for your very own...or....if you would like to commission a creation using your own photograph...please contact me via marmic1954 AT gmail DOT com, using 'Landscape Enquiry' in the subject line. 

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HIM AND ME VIII - WAITING FOR SANTA
measures approx. 24x22"

010826

HIM AND ME VII - CHRISTMAS TREE FARM

measures approx. 19x25"

310726

HIM AND ME VI - HIS GRANDPA's HOMESTEAD

measures approx. 17 1/2 x 21"

140726

"LAKESIDE SOLITUDE"

measures approx. 18x20"

200626
'HIM AND ME V - FOOTPRINTS TOGETHER'
measures approx. 19x23"

220526
HIM AND ME IV - SWINGIN'
measures approx. 19x21"

300426

"Him and Me III - Afternoon Stroll"

measures approx. 17 x 22 1/2

170426
"Him and Me II - Still My Everything"
measures approx. 19x21"

130326

"HIM AND ME"

measures approx. 20x22"

040326

"CHERRY BLOSSOM DREAMS"
measures approx. 22x23"

020226

"DANCING SKY"
measures approx. 18x22"

200126
"IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND"
measures approx. 25x21"

070126
"SOLITUDE"

measures approx. 25x17"

140825

"FRIGHTFUL NIGHT"

measures approx. 23x28"

300725

"MORNING COFFEE"   SOLD!

approx. 21x24"

100725

"MOUNTAIN MAJESTY"

Measures approx. 19x23"

Inspired by a colouring book page

300525

"SUMMER AT THE COTTAGE"

NOT FOR SALE

Measures approx. 18x22"

250525
"WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND"

Inspired by a piece of rust-dyed fabric I found
that had this poem written on it..

"If there be righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.  If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.  If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation.  When there is order in each nation, there will be peace in the world".

Created using some of the rust-dyed fabric I
had in my stash.

Measures approx. 30x26"

140425
"TEABAGS AND RUST"   SOLD!
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart
and used with his kind permission

Measures approx. 25x20"

060425
"FOGGY MORNING"
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart
and used with his kind permission

Measures approx. 29x24"

090325
"HARVEST TIME AT WILLOWVIEW FARMS"
(Abbotsford, BC)
measures approx. 22" square

130225
"Inside, Looking Out"
measures approx. 23x25"
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart,
and used with his kind permission

220125
"FALLING LEAVES"
measures approx. 25x26"
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart
and used with his kind permission

150924

"WITCH HOUSE - 2"
measures approx. 25x27"

Inspired by a photo by Tracy Baker
and used with her kind permission

060824

"Kawandi Fields"

measures approx. 21x21"
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart,
and used with his kind permission

270624
"The Red Chair (Muskoka TB Sanitarium)"
measures approx. 21x29"
Inspired by a photo by Michael Lalonde
and used with his kind permission

140624

"The Roads No Longer Travelled"

measures approx. 22x20"

Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart
and used with his kind permission

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"The Witch House"  SOLD!
measures approx. 27x29"
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart (and used with
his always kind permission),
as well as Michael Trueman and Glen Bowe

030524
"Hayfield School"
measures approx. 26 x 17"
Inspired by a photo by Glen Bowe
and used with his kind permission

100424
"Lonely Sentinel"
measures approx. 22" square
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart
and used with his always kind permission

260224

"Lonesome Wheel"

measures approx. 22x25"
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart
and used with his kind permission

070224

"Grande Ol' Dame"
measures approx 24x20"

 
'Storm on the Horizon'
SOLD!!

Inspired by the preprinted panel

as well as a photo by Kathy Kelly
(used with permission)

Measures approx. 22x26"

121323
'Waiting For Spring'
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart
Measures approx. 29x25"

101523

"Abandoned Blues"
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart,
used with permission

Measures approx. 22x30"

092323
"ALL ALONE IN THE PRAIRIES"

Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart
Measures approx. 27 1/2" x 24 1/2" 

081723

"Dead End"

Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart

measures approx. 26x22"

071823
"Three Churches of Mahone Bay"
SOLD

062623
"TRANQUIL SHORE"

Measures 27x23"
Commissioned

SOLD

042423
"DANDELION LOVE"
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart
Measures approx. 22"x29"

020423

"CABIN IN THE SNOW"

Inspired by a photo by Michael Trueman

Measures approx. 30x24"

073122

"SOMEWHERE IN SASKATCHEWAN"

Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart
measures approx. 29x23"

070922

"HERBIE NEEDS SOME LOVE"
Inspired by a photo by Michael Truman
Measures approx. 26 x 19"

060322

"Browers Homestead"
Inspired by a photo by Glen Bowe
Measures approx. 19" x 28"

SOLD!!

"Cobwebs and Splinters"

Inspired by memories of growing

up with an outhouse

Measures approx. 23 1/2" square

121421

"Ghostly Memories"
Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart

Measures approx. 29" x 23 1/2"

050521

Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart

Measures 24 x 28"

020521

Measures 26" x 29"

Inspired by a photo by Dale Stewart

122820

Measures 32" x 24"

SOLD!

Inspired by a photo by Janice Holtom

060520       SOLD!!!

Measures 31" x 23"

Inspired by a photo by Jeff Fuhre

032320

Measures 34" x 25"

Inspired by a free domain photo

012720

Measures 24" x 30"

Inspired by a tractor owned by my uncle

052219

Measures 30" x 23"

Inspired by a photo by John Phillips

010519

Measures 30" x 22"

Inspired by a photo from Dale Stewart

040519

Measures 29" x 22"

Inspired from a photo by Euvah Bryant

102218

Measures 28" x 17"

Inspired by a photo from my personal collection

052818

Measures 31" x 20"

Inspired by a photo from my personal collection

I would like to thank all the great photographers who have been so willing to share their amazing photos with me.  The inspiration you've provided has been invaluable!

Happy Easter!

 I'm still not seeing well enough to spend much time on here, but wanted to wish everyone a very happy and blessed Easter.

Short check in

 Thought I'd pop in for a minute to let you know that my eyes are healing well but I still can't see anything close up and mid-distance is a strain so my computer time is still limited.  I've been trying to skim through your blogs so I don't miss anything important but I haven't been making comments.  Gosh, I miss you guys!  I see my optometrist April 19th so hopefully I'll have my new glasses shortly after that.  Can't happen soon enough.

In the interim we've been working hard cleaning out a condo belonging to our friend who is heading for a nursing home.  A lot of work but a good distraction for me right now.

Keep talking amongst yourselves 

A short update

 First surgery was a success - second one is on Wednesday.  It appears, however, that my hiatus here might be longer than I first anticipated.  If the first eye is any indication I won't be able to see much in the way of reading anything until I get new prescription glasses in about six or seven weeks.  It's going to be a very LONG six or seven weeks because I am not a person who can sit and do nothing and certainly not for any extended period of time.  Poor Resident Chef might just be serving divorce papers by the time all this is over with!

Carry on folks - I'll be back, hopefully sooner than later!

A new project and an announcement

 First of all, the landscape I've been working on still isn't ready to be shown so instead I thought I'd show you the beginnings of a new project....

It's a terrible photo I know...but....this pile of 'stuff' consists of two well-loved onesies belonging to our two littlest grandsons and there's two different pieces of Minky fur behind.  Two teddy bears have been requested so Grandma can't possibly say no!  I'm going to try to just use the onesies for the body of the bears and then create the head and 'hands' from the Minky.  Fingers crossed it works!

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And....I wanted to let you know that I might be MIA for a couple of weeks or so and my blogging presence both here and visiting with you all will probably be sparse.  I will be having cataract surgery on both eyes and don't know what to expect as far as the healing process is concerned.  Bottom line is that I'm very much looking forward to being able to see!!  Please play nicely amongst yourselves and I'll be back as soon as I can.

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Today's quote..."This woman has fought a thousand battles, and is still standing; has cried a thousand tears, and is still smiling; has been broken, betrayed, abandoned, rejected, but she still walks proud, laughs loud, lives without fear, loves without doubt.  This woman is beautiful.  This woman is humble.  This woman is you"

Nothing - but a mess?!

Yes, I still have nothing of interest to show you.  As you can see from the photos below there are things happening (the mess will attest to that!) but absolutely nothing is ready for you to see.  I never did claim to be neat when I'm in the throes of creating despite my continual vows to clean up after myself.  Behold - the mess thinly disguised as creativity here at Chez Magpie...

Today's quote is from Albert Einsein..."If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

Nuttin, Nada, Zip and Zilch

Yep.  There's nothing to see here. 

 Even I'm bored with me.  

Can't show you a picture of the landscape (it's at THAT stage where it's not dressed for company).

Can't show you a picture of my messy studio (it's at THAT stage where it's not dressed for company either).

Can't show you a picture of the socks I finished knitting last night (well, I COULD, but they look the same as every other pair of socks I've knitted.  Yawn).

Can't show you a picture of the pre-op covid test I had this morning (definitely NOT interesting!).  

Today's quote (a fitting end to this post!)..."Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom" - James Galway

A little of this, and a little of that

I'm not sure that you can see much  change on this landscape but most of it has been quilted now and some of the detail stitching on the school has happened.  This week I will start the embroidery in the foreground and this particular piece will have a lot of it - or at least such is the plan. 

The mailman has been rather nice and brought me two nice additions to my stash...

Some new yarn colors to add to my mile-a-minute afghan I'm crocheting and some of these little clips that I've had on my wish list for quite awhile.  

Today's quote.. "Remember when people had diaries and got mad when someone read them?  Now they put everything online and get mad when people don't"

The excitement knows no bounds!

 Yes, the excitement here at Chez Magpie can be just overwhelming.  Case in point?  See this?....

Take the lid off the homemade kefir jar and you'd better be ready to run before it takes over your life!  An experiment in cheese-making is now underway.  Yep, the excitement knows no bounds.

Today's quote is from Martin Luther King.."If you can't fly, then run.  If you can't run, then walk.  If you can't walk, then crawl.  But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward"

Some things for THAT day

 You know?  THAT day in December???  Well, here's some additions to 'The Box' - three pairs are heading there once they've received their non-slip bottom anointing and the other pair is being gifted now due to the untimely appearance of holes in a currently loved pair.  

The two pairs in the front fit a size 13 man, the orange pair fits a size 10-11 woman, and the purple would fit a size 7 ladies foot.

There's been more progress on the new landscape and it's starting to look a little better (at least IMHO anyway!)...

Today this is your quote..."He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey.  He who blames himself is halfway there.  He who blames no one has arrived"

At that stage...and it must be love?

 I'm at the stage with the current landscape where the possibility is great that it will land in that proverbial 'file area' that resides on the floor beside my table.  I have done this enough to know that I need to carry on and try to break through the ugly.  Many of you guessed what I was doing with that piece of blue woven fabrics I showed last time.

First of all, I will show you the photo I'm using as inspiration for this one - once more shared with me and permission granted for my use by Dale Stewart (thank you Dale, as always!)....

And here's where I'm at at the moment....

Yeah.  'nuff said.  Stay tuned for further developments!!

AND, yes it must be love when this piece of chocolate fudge appeared last night....handmade by the clever hands of Resident Chef.  Chocolate with peanut butter and decorated with dried cranberries.  Yeah, he loves me - even after all these years.

Today's quote.."At the store there was a big X by the register for me to stand on...I've seen too many Road Runner cartoons to fall for that one"

A yawner and a puzzle

 One more pair of felted slippers hot off the needles (I have discovered that I can knit a pair of these in about 12 hours...just so the curious among you can know)....

And....what do you suppose this might end up being?....

Today's quote..."I'm too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener"

 Today, for something different (and because I haven't done much that's creative to show you) I thought I'd share something I came across on my travels around the internet.  There's much food for thought in this one and I hope you enjoy it...

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
The older lady said that she was right our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day.
The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building.
We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days.
Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.
We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing."
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

Unfortunately I don't know the original author.  If you do, let me know and I'll happily give credit.

Actually, I DID start a new project that is likely going to take me awhile.   See?.....

The pattern can be found HERE and if you want to see a better example of what I'm creating have a peek HERE.  I'm using 'Sugar and Cream' yarn.

Today the quote is from Mother Teresa..."I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things"

A hodge podge of mumbles

 It's been a few days of not much happening on the creative front.  I did finish knitting another pair of slippers that will be felted eventually and took a picture with my size 11 foot included so you can see just how much these need to shrink in the felting process.  

And....this was the sight that greeted me when I got up early this morning - the view is over the river that runs just outside our apartment building...

I don't normally include too many family pictures on my blog but I simply can't resist this one...

 He's a man who loves his peanut butter!

Today's quote is from Zig Ziglar - "If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you.  If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you"

Another finish!!

 It's finished!  At least I'm saying it is anyway....

FOR SALE!

Created from a photo by Dale Stewart,
and used with his kind permission.

The quote of the day - "5 by 5 rule:  If it's not gonna matter in 5 years, don't spend more than 5 minutes being upset about it"

A mini update

This is not the post I had planned to do for today but it's been an upsetting morning and I'm behind in what I need to be doing.  Don't worry, we're okay - but I was dealing with an elderly friend who isn't.

So....just so I have a picture or two, here's a couple quickly-taken close-ups of the latest landscape...

The landscape is very close to being complete and hopefully I'll have photos of that for you next time.

Today's quote..."Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner" 

One never knows what one might find here!

 I keep eyeing my bag filled with yarn odds and ends and wondering what I could make to use some of them up.  It suddenly came to my attention that such a thing as mile-a-minute afghan patterns are out there and wouldn't that be the perfect use for those partial balls of yarn.  I made one strip and weighed the ball of yarn before and after and came up with how many oz. I need to make a strip.  Resident Chef then undertook to weigh all my leftover yarns and we sorted them into what I can use for my afghan.  I will need to augment for a few colours I would like to use but otherwise I think I can pretty much make a useable blanket.  Useable is the key word here because, like much of what I do, I don't have any use for said blanket.  It will go in the Christmas box and maybe will 'bless' some poor unsuspecting soul in December.  

There follows a mini-rant so be prepared!

One would think, if one thought upon such things, that paying a lot more for something that's supposed to be 'better quality' would mean that I wouldn't be taking a picture and circling in RED what happened to my office chair this morning.  One would think that one would be comfortable in said chair for several years to come.  One would think that, wouldn't one.  Well....said chair has had a massive squeak since Day One and has required many applications of the wonder elixer called WD-40.  I'm sad to say that WD-40 can't fix this.  The arm rest snapped right off very nearly dumping moi very ingloriously onto the floor.  Resulting screech of dismay brought Resident Chef running, only to have to wade through the air that was rapidly turning blue.  Sigh.

anybody got any spare gold lying around?
One chair, in need....