It’s cold and possibly icy here in Dallas, and I’m sleep-deprived. So tonight’s offering will be brief. A lesson in persistence. “Make a way out of ‘no way.’” Come up with a creative solution. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Even if you are a beagle. I wonder how many attempts it [...]
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A man, a plan, a canal — Panama! I think of this palindrome a lot. And the first part of it applies, strangely. Yesterday, on 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney did a little fluff piece of watches and timepieces. I didn’t really listen — I was waiting for the Amazing Race, which was very cool and [...]
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I find myself derailed by the slightest thing these days… apparently, it’s part of grief. Of “complicated grief,” that is. No, I can’t just have the garden variety “wear black for mourning then get on with life” grief. I have to get the complicated form… which is a lot like driving a car with a [...]
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Here is the first piece that opened me up to piercing canvas and adding thread/fiber elements, discovered by me a couple of weeks ago in conversation with a knitting comadre on Ravelry. I had been thinking of adhesives, but Kirsty’s innovation and provacative piece “Cursive” literally PUNCHED HOLES in my way of thinking. I love [...]
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I have a bunch of great friends. We share a lot of cool links and tidbits from the ‘net. Because they are looking at vastly different things online than I am, I get wonderful FRESH ideas from them. Here is today’s, from T: from http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11665672 I’ve been thinking lately about doing paintings that are somehow [...]
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The Holidailies start tomorrow. This is a yearly blog writing project, totally voluntary, and loads of fun. I pledge to post every day for 31 days from Dec. 5 to Jan. 6. While I plan to stick pretty close to my theme of creativity, art, and the process of opening up to it, you can [...]
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