Bruiser

I’ve been waiting to add this piece to my blog and website www.janholzbauer.com until after Christmas. I don’t think my daughter Jillian reads my blog but I may be surprised. Anyway…just in case she did I didn’t want her to see this piece until after Christmas. It is a stitched photo of her beloved cat…

Black Bear is finished!!

I finally finished my black bear. I am really excited about the way he turned out. I think he looks awesome!! I think I started this back in January or February of this year and once I got the bear stitched I set him aside for quite awhile because I finally realized I was afraid…

Black Bear progress

                        Well it’s been a while since I’ve posted.  I finally got back to work on my black bear project.  It has just been hanging on the wall staring at me for quite a while.  I’ve been busy working on other projects: block of the month last year for quilt guild and now for this…

Christmas in New York

Denny took me to New York City for a few days before Christmas.  This is a photo of Times Square at night.  I’ve never been to New York City before and had a wonderful time.  We went to the Metropolitan Museum of  Art where I got to see lots of paintings – many of which…

An Odd Sensation

     Have you ever been driving down a two lane highway in the dark and get to feeling that you’re kind of not all “there”?  You know the one…where your mind is on something other than driving the car (I know…not a good idea) and then something brings you back to reality and you have to…