My block for Sendai Project finished

My block is on its way...I completed this little block for our dear quilter friend Hideko whose country, hometown had a tragic earthquake in Japan. Our another friend, Leslie Ehrlich is organizer of a special project "Our Hearts and Hands for Sendai". special thanks her for her efforts to realise this important project. I wish I could make this block for another reason but I'm glad that our dear friend Hideko is well and safe. I always keep Japan people in my prayers who survived from big disaster and for all those innocent people who lost their lives due to big quake and horrible tsunami.

I tried to use flowers and lots of beads on my block, I wanted to use bright colors as the reminder of the spring...spring brings new hopes, new expectations....

I used contrast colors in a harmony. My beaded needle laces looked so neat on the hand dyed fabric.

I used different types of oyas...

I'm not much familiar to Brazilian Embrodiery but recently I bought nice special threads for that purpose, using those treads I did Bullion stitches and french knots on top the bugles intead of using beads as I used to do.

As my buddies all know, I like heavily embellished blocks, this is another heavily embellished block that I made for an important project. I added my sincere feelings, all positive energy to create it.

Blessings to all.....

Its spring:))

My followers know that I love lilacs...I shared lilac paintings that I made...This year I would like to share some beautiful photos of naturel lilac. Yesterday, we went to our friend's lovely farm again. I got so excited, it was lilac time and their back yard was full of lilacs. I know they are always lovely on their own bunches but their wonderful smell covers our home right now. We had a small lilac tree at the back yard of our home at my childhood. It was a two storey home and we were living at the second floor, however, it was big enough to reach our balcony....Istanbul were covered lilac trees in my childhood, there were special smells of each month...lilac, magnolia, mimmosa....roses, honey suckles....Now, everywhere covred with huge buildings, we have all comfort , hand made peysage views but there is nothing related with special smells of nature!!!

This close-up photo shows their beauty.

To sit this here and feel wonderful smell of lilacs was great.

This lovely&lonely poppy was looking great among all those green things.

Another close-up photo, itsn't so nice???

It was great to see poppies when arriving our friends farm. We totally forgot the important symbols of each season while living in big cities...I always say, I would love to live in county without hesitation...