baking in the oven, drying in the sun, words snipped from an ancient shakespeare tutorial, pieced back together on pieces of papery love xo
the moon was, once again (this amazes me every month), very full last night. full, and bright, and to this middle aged woman who is sleeping fitfully these nights, not so welcome when its light sp...
winter, firefly road. a little bit of sunshine purchased last week in asheville (tulips are my all time favorites) and moved around the house to suit my moods. here, they rest just inside the fr...
two hours to spend at the river on a milky-sunny midwinter afternoon. what to do with my pocket of time, then? rain has been frequent - feeling like it is raining every other day here, or more of...
saturday afternoon seemed especially long - longer than usual for a midwinter day. just before the sun sank down behind the mountains here on firefly road, walter and i piled into the car and drov...
new pendants photographed with panasonic DMC - FZ35, sent to my email on the iPhone, processed again via ScratchCam, then 100 Cameras, then sent back to my laptop and tweaked in photoshop with bump...
photo of gathered rainwater taken this morning along the river trail with my iPhone - app used is ScratchCam, sent to my laptop and further edited with photoshop (changed contrast, lighting, satura...
i've been writing this blog for over six years. six years! it's hard for me to believe. i've openly shared with readers my ups and downs, my artwork, my raging insecurities, my love...
yes, it's a little blurred, and yes, i've touched it up a bit with an iPhone app. who knew i'd be using that thing for imagery as much as i now do? but i carry the phone, slender a...
you'll remember my post i wrote a couple of weeks ago in which i mentioned a ball of red yarn - walking through the woods and leaving a trail. i was tempted - believe me, i couldn't wait...
on this gloomy, chilly january day, i've been conversing via email back and forth with a fellow artist i've yet to meet in person, but with whom i share similar veins in this life we both...
sunday afternoon, winter. a fine day, yet here i sit in a north- and - east facing darkened studio, trying to jump start a book into the beginnings of some sort of an existence. a quick burst of va...
finally... my little etsy shop has opened back up again, after the quiet christmas break. go take a peek - i think you'll like what you see. xo my shop can be reached by clicking here...
i'm sitting in a chair at the hair salon, laptop in lap, looking a whole lot like a character from the addams family. you wouldn't want to see this; i don't want to see, and am doing ...
every morning when i wake, i can roll over to my right and see a lovely tree outside my southern window. in autumn it is a riot of bold yellow color; in spring, soft froth of green; in winter, bar...
i don't know about the rest of you, but i for one am immensely relieved and happy to bid old 2011 farewell. it was not one of my favorite years, for all the reasons you'd imagine, and a ...
someone is looking at you. someone is wondering what is outside his grandmother's door. someone is looking for excitement, mischief, and the ever hopeful wish for a little conjured distraction....
it's another rainy morning here on firefly road, and i'm trying to figure out a balance between cleaning/ working/ baking/ wrapping/ errand running, in no particular order. so far i'...
xo
i live in a place so incredibly beautiful that sometimes i actually say out loud to none other than my own two ears, you live here. yes you do. it is a magical place throughout the year - the g...
yesterday was a long, drawn out practice in frustration, a lesson for the grace of patience. i spent the entire morning photographing eight or nine intricate pieces of jewelry, stopped at lunch to w...
ah, to settle into a routine - how lovely that is, how sweet. i know at other times in my life, those routines have seemed mundane, predictable, droll. not now. i am savoring the chance for long...
as is usually the case when i've been quiet, when i haven't posted for a bit, i've begun receiving a string of emails inquiring about my state of mind, of being. i'm fine. there...
i've felt more quiet than usual, this week. the weather has been overcast and makes daylight come later, evening fall faster. everything has taken on a muffled, hazy look, and that's ok...
let me start off by saying how proud i am of myself. the simple fact that you can actually see the (stained, weathered, 11 years' worth of wear and tear) table top - can see the surface, not ...
i'm still here, i really am. sorry to be so quiet. but after nearly two weeks of solid, very physical work in the studio - pulling out, putting into piles, sorting, sifting, boxing, shipping...
friendly little jack-o-lantern by my potter friend Julie Whitmore i can't believe it is the last day of october. what an incredibly beautiful month this one has been; the colors were more inte...
i am going to keep this very brief, as i have a really, really busy day (and weekend) ahead of me, sorting and culling and tossing and packing, taping and filing and addressing and then sending a m...
and introducing... my pal dr. dave, dentist extraordinaire...
this is what one's studio looks like when one is coming and going, mostly going, for most of one year one travels to teach, comes home and unpacks only long enough to pack again and take off al...
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