Amanda Perkins works her designs in beautiful yarn.

You can find her motif flower designs and buy her patterns.  **some Ive made.  Her pattern instructions are excellent.  This is her "daisy".

Isnt this beautiful?? Ive made enquries ... I hope I can buy this silk paper vase for my girl.  My friend made it.   You can find her at :http://kmyoungster.blogspot.com/ 

Zentangles are really popular!  But where do you start?  I live in Australia and love walking through nature looking at the vegetation and color.  So I Googled forest floor images....and found a line drawing of some fungi.  I draw up some cards using the fungi grouping which seemed to give a nice "natural" feel.  Then I browsed clever artists' pages to find some zen patterns.  Here are 3 in the make... and one I just have to leave alone now... it is finished.

Another flower for Charlotte's blanket.  Just thought I would try doing a little crochet.... while I wait for the fabulous Japanese book to come to me in the mail.

The beautiful blog that shares this flower and shows off the pattern book so you too can buy it!!
Another flower that is for Charlotte comes from a charity daisy pattern.  Im not making the pattern to sell but Im making up some flowers for the charity blog.  I thought I might practice to get the flowers just right.... and it seems a waste NOT to make something beautiful out of those pieces.