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What’s Your Story?
Everybody has a story …or two. IMHO, it’s the listening part of storytelling that is the most healing. Being heard is what we all require. We can say, “Yes, you are beside me and I hear you.” I first became aware of this in a conscious way just before my...
Losing Friends
It seems that many of my human friends are losing their four-legged friends lately. In addition to puppy and dog portraits, I am doing memorial images. We are so grateful for their unconditional love and miss it so. The portraits are started by studying photographs of...
Striped Pajamas
The excuse for last week’s non post, as excuses go, merits little explanation. For my birthday last weekend, among all the many kindnesses, someone gave me a cold. On we go… Striped Pajamas. It’s not about the children’s song I learned from Captain Kangaroo about...
The Calico Dog, My Rebellious Entry into Sewing
Sixth grade. I found the pattern in Mom’s woman’s magazine. I don’t now where I got the fabric; it wasn’t really calico, but definitely not gingham. So, though the poem talks of a gingham dog and calico cat, I made a calico dog. Rebellious start to finish! The...
Marie Kondo, Filing, Letting Go, and Dust Bunnies
I love Marie Kondo. However… I have never seen her try to tidy an artist’s studio. My entire home is a studio. This week, overwhelmed with file boxes, crates and stacks of papers that trip up the simplest of movements and bruise shins, I bought two (more) file...
I MADE IT MYSELF…ESPECIALLY FOR YOU
Consider it a double blessing when you make a gift with your own hands. The act of making for a particular person is a gift to the maker as well as the recipient. The outcome or “product” is one of a kind, unique, thoughtful, and rare. The connection between you and...
TShirt quilt. Starting the binding. 96x105 inches double sided.
Sewing sewing sewing! This quilt is looking at 8 feet wide and at least 8 feet tall. Lots of ladder climbing.
A collection of shirts from childhood to young adult makes for a variety of widths to consider in the design process. Each T-shirt quilt is a puzzle.
18 hours in and I have the t-shirts cut and faced. Now the design process begins!
Chato & Pepper
Raccoon #racoon
Rabbit
Kittens with eyeliner.