I had the good fortune to spend time in the bosom of a friend and her family last week. And so many things transpired, at a subterranean level, deep inside my cold black heart, which meant so much to me. Without embarrassing her over much, I’ll just say that the hum of family life was [...]
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Part of traveling is finding the unexpected, the serendipity, the extraordinary. Though we plan and plan for everything to “go without a hitch,” sometimes hitches make the journey very interesting. And sometimes, they just make it longer.
We got back to the airport to discover our car battery dead as a great box of dead battery. [...]
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Here’s another video which is a marvel of technique and creativity… Imagine knitting 720 panels for your animation! Sure, she had a knitting machine, but it’s still a major achievement. It’s a bit far away from the kinds of images that I’m wanting to create with fiber, fabric and paint, but when you’re working on [...]
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(This entry was chosen as a “Best of Holidailies.” Thanks!)
Wrapping gifts is a lost art.
I learned it during one weekend of working the gift wrap desk at a major department store when I was in high school. I didn’t get paid, but my mother worked there, and one day I was hanging out and someone [...]
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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 it [...]
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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 related to each [...]
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While drinking my one perfect cup of coffee this morning, I watched a willow tree next to a little pond. As its branches floated gracefully up and down on the breeze in typical willowy gorgeousness, I was proud that I’d taken the willow as my namesake. Half of my namesake.
What that willow taught me was [...]
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