3 posts from October 2009

I am on my way in minutes to stay with my grandmother.... While my son has been home, he is working on moving my website, and so far things are not working very well.... If you try the link to my regular website from here or anwhere- Andrus Gardens & More- Sue Andrus Art Quilts you may not get it.... right now things are not working.... hopefully it will be fixed soon... It is also making things goofy with my email... I can get some, but right now can't send anything....

Hopefully things will be remedied very soon!! My Artfire shops and blog are fine, so if anyone wishes to contact me, you can do so through either Artfire shop by clicking on the Contact button...

MAybe I'll get another quick post out in a while, but if not... I will be home around the 12th of November...
Links to my Artfire Studios are now on the right sidebar here...

I have been very poor again at keeping up with posting here.... The past weeks have been filled with preparing for and vending at a quilt show, preparing a lecture for another guild, gathering  items to deliver for a sale, and more. I am also preparing to head back to  Fillmore, NY the end of this week to spend a few weeks with my grandmother. My parents Really need a vacation, so I will be staying with her while they are gone. And to add even more excitement.... Our son Zack who has been deployed in Iraq popped in unexpectedly last night on a 2 week leave!!

I did do a little blog post announcing my newest patterns available at my newest Artfire Studio. We now have studio Blogs available there to use, and I will probably use them to promote new additions, and other artists.

I have also been trying to add little bits here and there to my Facebook Fan Page. Follow the link to become one of my fans!

I will probably be MIA from the web a lot while at my gram's.... there is only very slow dial-up service there unless I go to my brother's house. I will be taking all my items listed for sale in my shops along with my shipping supplies so that I can fill any orders that come in while there.... It's really hard to teach Ken how to do that, and my storage units are portable.... Printing mailing labels online makes shipping packages so easy from anywhere....

Here are a couple photos from my gardens a few days ago....   The trees still have leaves, and a lot are still green....

My garden out the front door.... Looked more like January than Mid October.... Thankfully after a day or so it all melted.
  Not exactly lawn mowing weather.... The mowers are parked outside my studio window.... Might be time to put them away.... This has definitely been a strange weather year...  The snow tires get installed this week.

Today I received a very nice hand written note informing me that my photo, "Waterfalls", was chosen for "The Eye of the Quilter" exhibit that will be at International Quilt Festival in Houston later this month! The exhibit will be a group of photos taken by quilters that give an idea of what inspires our quilts.  We sent digital images, and those selected will be printed and framed for the exhibit..... It should be a great selection of photos.... Here are the two photos that were not chosen...

Top is a photo of "Lemon Puff" yellow roses, and the lower one is a view from inside an arbor at Inniswood Gardens, Columbus,OH. The opening of the arbor frames the view of the gardens beyond.

Now that it has been two weeks since our trip to the Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia, PA, I am finally getting some of those photos posted... I took well over 300 photos.... here are just a few highlights.....

A nest in an exhibit high in the trees that lets you see things from a bird's eye view in the treetops. To give an idea of the size of the nest, we could walk in through the side and look up, out the top.... There were many walkways high up in the trees, a really neat experience.
  After we walked out of the treetop exhibit, we wandered  through a formal rose garden complete with a fountain in the middle. This gazebo was on one of the outer corners of that garden. There are many beautiful huge, old trees of all kinds through the arboretum, like the one here.
One of my favorite places.... The Fernery.... This beautiful conservatory greenhouse has been restored to it's original state. It is beautiful from the outside, but inside......
Ferns, ferns, and more ferns..... It was such a beautiful, calming, cool place to be. The photos above just aren't like being there..... There were ferns of all kinds, moss, and other plants tucked into every corner... There were many paths to walk, ponds, waterfalls, fish, and more.... Lots of my most favorite family of ferns- the Maidenhairs.... many different versions were here.
I forget what type of tree this was, but it was another really hige one.... The tree branches hung down all around it, many to the ground... I should have gotten a photo of Ken while he was nearer to the main trunks...