Calla Lily an Bathroom Are Declared Finished!

Well, Calla Lily is about 2 feet of binding short of being finished!  That will get done tonight while we watch Doc Martin.

 

And we have declared the bathroom done and finished!  And we did it without Ray....although there were a few times I could have used him here.  Like when we were trying to re-hang the cabinet doors!

But we made it and I didn't have to kill Frank.  I was close a few times.

The mirrors are back up and the photos are panoramic shots I took when we were on vacation on the West Coast.  The long one is Multnomah Falls in OR on the Columbia River Gorge.  This is before the huge piece of rock broke off and changed the look of the falls.  The top one is the Gold Coast along Hwy 1 in CA.   We drove up from Los Angeles through Carmel and Monterrey, stopped at the aquarium, drove through Big Sur and over Bixby Bridge and toured Hearst Castle.  Actually I  think we started from the top and drove down!  And we climbed to every lighthouse along the way!

Two pieces of the pottery came from two trips into the Navajo Reservation, one in Monument Valley and the other in Utah. 
The ewer with the handle was a pottery piece one of my dog clients made for me.  The screws from the toilet paper holder stuck through and Frank couldn't cut them off, although he imagined himself superman enough to do it.  So I took some corks and dowel pieces and screwed them onto the screw ends.  I think that was pretty swuft!  Frank was convinced it would never work.  So after he works out a bit and builds up some muscles, it will do.

 I hung the toilet paper HIGH! And the towel rack over that outlet. 

The only thing I have to do is when the shower curtain comes in tomorrow I need to rehang the rod over the bathtub.

I need a few brightly colored pieces of stuff like towels, rugs and a basket for the Roomba's stuff. Right now the Roomba keeps its stuff in a plastic tub.  We can be more upscale than that!

So I guess it is NEARLY finished as opposed to TOTALLY finished.  OK, I'll give you that. 

Art Quilts in the Bathroom

Yes.  Art Quilts in the bathroom! I guess the Hibiscus didn't make the cut!

The Row Houses was already in there, so I just put it back.  That was a challenge in River City Guild, oh, maybe 5 or 6 years ago.  I think they did it wrong though.  The deal was to have three bags.  In one bag was the type of block.  In another, an element and in another, a color.

Someone reached in and chose one from each bag and we were all asked to do the same thing.  I think it should have been where each person chose from each bag.  That way the quilts would have been unique and totally original.

Anyway, that person chose a log cabin block, in the color green and with a bird.

I won FIRST PLACE!!!  The pattern was from Flavin Glover long before she came and did a workshop here in Baton Rouge.   I loved her tiny log cabins; they finish at 3 inches so they are tiny!   My green is a greyed green on one of the rooftops, and there is a tiny weather vane with a rooster showing which way the wind is blowing.  Could be a good thing in a bathroom sometimes!

I wanted a great place to put my Iguana.  The Iguana has a real name, Lagarto de Mi Corazón.  It means Lizard of My Heart.  It was too complicated for the Swamp Show so I just shortened it to Iguana.  Which is good as well.  The figures are Anazasi Petroglyphs that I discharged from a nice black fabric.  It was made for a Challenge for River City Guild about 4 years before the Row Houses even.  It was when we met at the Library.  The challenge was to take a block and add to it or subtract from it.  We were to make something from at least two changes plus the original block.  I wanted to do something other than a quilt.  But back then the group was pretty traditional and it was not something they were interested.  I was Art Quilting before they were ready for it.

And of course, there is The Derrick tribute to almighty OIL.  It is appropriate because the Oilfield has fed, clothed and educated my family for close to 45 years.  It is not something I look at as a bad thing.  I have had friends who besmirch OIL as a bad thing, but I pay homage to it.

You can look at The Derrick as good or bad; something that has built families in Louisiana or destroyed lives.  But it has been very good to us.

And the good thing is that I can change or add or subtract art as I see fit in my own little Bathroom Art Gallery!