A couple of months ago we had a screened porch added to the back of our house. The other night I decided to sleep out there because it was really warm and stuffy in the house. My hu...
Tuesday morning I ran from the voting out near my house to the courthouse in downtown Asheville for jury duty. I amused myself by sketching and writing, as you can see here. There were se...
Lark is doing a giveaway of a copy of my new bind- up/re-editioning of Decorated Page and Decorated Journal. Go to the link below to get the details, and YOU may be the lucky winner! They...
For the second year in a row my friend Carol and I gathered several months worth of willow bark peelings and settled into the paper studio at BookWorks in West Asheville to make a supply of willow ba...
Sunday a group of us braved icy wind and met in downtown Asheville for a downtown sketch crawl. After a few minutes warming up inside Malaprops Bookstore we decided to stay warm and defer the o...
Just as I was feeling smug about posting all thirteen of the profiles it occurred to me that 3 + 3 + 6 = 12 and not 13. And so heres the missing profile, Sarah Bournes. Sarahs wonde...
This morning in a spurt of ambition I scanned all six of the remaining profiles. So this will be a big posting. I dont think I ever explained how the profiles came about nor how they were...
Im changing the sequence of these profiles for todays posting because Shirley Levine, whose page you see here (above), has recently posted a wonderful tutorial on making a journal out of an old book ...
It wasnt supposed to get here until March, but today my editor at Lark surprised me with an advance copy of the revised Decorated Page! Its ahead of schedule, but still wont be in bookstores fo...
Yesterday was another in a long string of chilly, breezy, overcast, drizzly days here in Asheville, so a small group of us from my journal group went on a sketch crawl to a local garden centers green...
Last night our journal group met over at Asheville BookWorks. It was an unusually large group for this time of the year when driving can be iffy in the mountains, and the energy was high. ...
Heres recent page from a little journal that I started keeping a year ago. I got the idea from a woman who had a journal similar to this in a show at BookWorks last winter. My take on it ...
I got home from a trip to Brooklyn to visit our son and his wife and their two-year-old, Nate, very early this morning. Unfortunately, my husband and I came home with the same wretched cold tha...
Monkey Mind, from Cave Junction, Oregon! (Please send me your name and address, Monkey Mind, so that the publisher can send your book to you.)And thanks to all 85 of you who posted comments to ...
My friend Jill Berry has recently published a reallyintriguing book called Personal Geographies. (The cover is to the right.) I meet regularly with a group of journal keepers, and if your...
Last weekend my husband and I drove to New Orleans to visit some of my family and for my high school class reunion. We stayed in a bed and breakfast in my old neighborhood. On Sunday morn...
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One more mannequin piece and I promise I will move on to something else! But I saw a high school friend the other night at our reunion and she told me she actually loves my mannequins! I ...
Those of you who have been trying without success over the past year or so to find copies of The Decorated Page will be happy to learn that Lark has brought out a new edition of this book in combinat...
My son Mike found a book at the American Precision Museum published locally that was a collection of quests around the area of NH and VT where he lives. Each quest included directions to get to...
Yes! My excuse for such lame updating is that Ive been traveling as well as having guests for the whole month of September, AND I didnt bring my laptop along when I traveled. I did bring ...
Usually the effort of posting takes me at least two weeks to recover from, but this week, I received a review of an art exhibition that I thought might be interesting to those of you who enjoy ...
As many of you know, although I truly enjoy teaching, twenty years of doing it full-time has made me reluctant to teach much since retiring from teaching two years ago. But every now and then a...
One of my excuses for slackness in blogging lately is that Ive been working really hard to finish the large woodblock print shown here. (Ive also used this print as the basis for an edition of ...
The sketch above was made by Anne Rippy, a woman on our sketch crawl to the Screen Door last Sunday. She did the drawing as well as the painting right there. I asked her if she would send...
While sketching yesterday with some friends at an antique place that is NOT the Tobacco Barn, I found a lovely concrete statue of a headless Virgin Mary. She was looking fine, stepping on that ...
Last summer Jacob, my grandson, and I decided to make a Welsh coracle, a small boat of ancient design, traditionally made of willow branches and animal hide. We searched out directions for maki...
Over the weekend I drove past the Tobacco Barn and slipped in for a few minutes to check on the mannequin. Had she been sold? Had someone finally rearranged her parts? The air insid...
I had an irresistable urge to go revisit the mannequin in the tub at Tobacco Barn this weekend. I wondered if she would even be there-- certainly I would have bought her if I would have had the...
Yesterday afternoon five of us ventured into the Tobacco Barn, braving 90 degree heat and humidity and armed with sketchbooks and water bottles. The Tobacco Barn is way too big to have air cond...
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