What do the Neuronal Networks of a mouse have to do with the Millenium Simulation? Manuel Limas explores the power of networks and how to visualize an increasingly complex world in this phenomenal vi...
Who would have thought that dance and embroidery go so well together. Mixed media artist Jose Ignacio Romussi Murphy from Chile embroiders vintage postcards and playfully brings the dancer’s po...
This month’s fabric manipulation is back to dimensional. I’ve made a simple form that can be twisted and folded into many different shapes. Here is how it works. First cut the shape below...
Memorial Day Weekend is coming up and I’ll be taking a small mini vacation…. In the meantime, here are some interesting things I discovered while wandering the web: Researchers have found...
Am I going to blog about wilted flowers today? Nope. However, I do like to observe when flowers slowly change and become unique in their decay. Some collapse looking quite sad, while others fight and...
Remember this post about my favorite embroiderer Junko Oki and my efforts to get my hands on one of her books? Well, I finally succeeded and yesterday received a copy of her wonderful book ‘poe...
Isn’t it interesting how hard it is to stitch freestyle? Or is it just me? After a few more stitches on my practice piece, I once again realized that stitching is only meditative when I know wh...
Congratulations to Marcela who won a copy of Reinvention! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! Share/Bookmark
Love the Hand-Made Etsy series. This week Mitsy from Artmind was featured whose work and blog (with great tutorials) are very inspiring. Another wonderful portrait is of mother daughter team Ayşegül ...
My dear friend Maya has written a beautiful book: Reinvention: Sewing with Rescued Materials. It features 28 great projects made from recycled material celebrating creativity, sustainability and reso...
Today I’m stitching away for tomorrow’s very special post. See you then. Share/Bookmark
This morning I awoke at 5am. After 8 hours of sleep (yes, very early bedtime yesterday) I was reasonably well rested, but for me there is no such thing as too much sleep. The bed was warm, soft and c...
Who knew that peas can talk? This and other interesting and inspiring finds from a around the web to conclude this week: A team of researchers found out that pea plants who were subjected to drought ...
This is a post that could have probably stayed in draft mode forever. But it didn’t. Yesterday evening I decided is was hair salon time. It’s always salon “annekata”, because ...
Isn’t it clever how this artist incorporates clothes into her painting? Elfi Cella is a Swiss based painter, who paints miniatures and mixes paint and textiles in a wonderfully innovative way. ...
This month’s journey of fabric manipulation was a rocky one. Hence this post is more about “Creativity Manipulation”, because no matter how hard I tried, nothing worked the way I wa...
Look at these multi-taskers above, especially the right one. Balancing in clogs with a vessel on her head and knitting at the same time is admirable. Sia commented the other day that she fell into a ...
Guess what arrived at my doorstep and what I’ll be doing this morning. Brewing a cup of tea and reading the brand new book my wonderful friend Maya has written. And what a great book it is, wit...
The pot is not Tuscan pottery, but it’s a start. I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of making pots or vessels, but clay is very intimidating to me. Fabric is easier, less messy and b...
Good morning! The weekend is almost here and I’ll leave with some good finds around the web: Amongst the many fantastic pinterest boards, Kate Lyden’s and Nesting Emily’s, especiall...
After a few more days of stitching, my t-shirt is ready. I started with white thread, but I didn’t like it, so I ripped it all out and started from scratch using dark blue buttonhole thread ins...
Guess what I did over the weekend. I time traveled to medieval Tuscany where I discovered Cennino d’Andrea Cennini an Italian painter thought to have lived during the 14th/15th century. He was ...
Here is something to watch with your Sunday morning coffee. Or tea. Self taught painter Silvia Pelissero aka Agnes-Cecile created this incredible water color portrait in only an hour and a half for t...
Do you remember the old flokati rugs, the shaggy ones from the seventies? I had one and it was impossible to keep clean. This is what I should have done with mine before throwing it out. Anna Betbeze...
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840 – 1924) was one interesting women. Intellectually curious, she loved to travel and with her husband Jack, they visited Europe, Egypt, Turkey and the Far East to l...
It’s spring break, Easter, Passover and we’ll be celebrating with family on the East Coast. Later in the car, we’ll be singing with Pete Seeger. I’ll be stitching more petals...
Have you ever thought of what to do with the water you soak your black beans in? Of course not. I usually throw it out or use it for watering the plants. I hadn’t either until yesterday. But fi...
On this Monday morning, I am still buried in our daughter’s school art show preparation and could easily be pictured as one of the people in image above left. It’s also an excellent morni...
……..was just not blogworthy. Not that I didn’t do, read or think about anything interesting, but nothing was connected. It was a busy, chaotic week and I was stumbling through it. A...
Binh Danh focuses on the Vietnam War Era. His images – disturbing and powerful, reveal themselves like dark dreams and memories: hazy and vague. I don’t know about you, but I don’t ...
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