Virginia A. Spiegel

July 25 joins the Collection of Lynn Krawczyk

July 29 joins the Collection of Heidi Miracle-McMahill

July 30 joins the Laura H. Osbun Collection

Boundary Waters 24 joins the Collection of Karey Bresenhan

July 24 joins the Collection of P. Moore

July 31 joins the Linda T. Minton Collection.

Grey Cat joins the Collection of Ruth Moore.

July 21 joins a Private Collection

My sincere thanks to these generous patrons for their support.

If you like reading my blog, treat yourself to my new book, Art, Nature, Creativity, Life AND benefit the American Cancer Society at the same time.

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I can’t believe it’s Tuesday already. There’s a new post, of course, on The Garbage Day Project.

What an appropriate photo for Garbage Day. It’s a dandelion gone to seed. The stem is the most gorgeous pink.

(If you like reading my blog, treat yourself to my new book, Art, Nature, Creativity, Life, AND benefit the American Cancer Society at the same time.)

At last! Art, Nature, Creativity, Life is now available.

100% of your donation goes directly to the American Cancer Society through Fiberart For A Cause. The minimum donation is $25, but, hey, with a goal of $30,000, feel free to donate a little more.

To order, visit Fiberart For A Cause’s donation page here. Then e-mail me to let me know that you have made your donation to the American Cancer Society. I will e-mail you the password to the web-based book once your donation is confirmed. You can then access Art, Nature, Creativity, Life on the web any time and as many times as you choose.

Here are more details about Art, Nature, Creativity, Life. I will be checking my e-mail frequently today, so please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to leave comments here.

Martha Sielman, Executive Director of Studio Quilt Art Associates, sent not only this haiku,

Musings, inspiration,
Boundary Waters canoeing:
Virginia’s e-book.

but also a lovely review of the eBook, Art, Nature, Creativity, Life. The eBook will be released this coming Monday, October 8 with 100% of the proceeds going directly to the American Cancer Society.

Thank you, Martha! I hope everyone who reads the eBook is inspired to write a poem. It is stuffed full of essays, photos, book recommendations and haikus of interest to artists, gardeners, armchair philosophers, and nature lovers.

I just received a copy of The Quilt by Elise Schebler Roberts. This is a gorgeous 348-page book with the subtitle: A History and Celebration of an American Art Form.

Of particular interest to me is the chapter entitled Quilting for Life and Death with a section on Quilting to Comfort or Find Cures. Elise was kind enough to include Fiberart For A Cause, even though at the time she was writing the book I was unsure what could follow the unbelievably successful postcard project.

Of special note is a special four-page spread written by Ami Simms about her very moving and successful fundraiser, the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative.

Elise’s summary says it all, “Quilters are redefining traditional approaches to life and death issue through their art, whether that art is produced for remembrance, awareness, or to raise money. Making the quilts provides quilters with a way to take control of a situation, at a time when they are feeling as if everything is out of their hands.”