Celebration Flags

Olivia has had a fever due to teething, we hope, so i neglected to post yesterday.  So…now that Marilyn has called me from Santa Rosa to say her gift arrived, I will show you the entire banner.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
This is not an original idea, but i just had to make one.  Somewhat akin to the [...]

Art in the Day to Day

This is a clothesline of Olivia’s clothing back in July. 

I loved all the colors and looking at each piece that she has been wearing all summer while she learned to crawl, and now while she is taking her first steps.  I sent this picture to my dear artist friend Cielo Sand and she turned it into [...]

Healing Heart

Healing Heart: fabric, tie-dyed dinner napkin, yellow linen dyed with natural dye osage-orange sawdust, 8 pointed star quilt patchwork, nest of gold thread,dyed crochet, red wool, enamel pin, paper butterflies, dyed lace flowers, copper wire, beads, hand-stitching.  Size: c. 20″ square
I started this piece last fall while in the early chapters of Julia Cameron’s THE ARTIST’S WAY.  [...]

Leaves for Fall

Well, I just finished drawing on this little gourd bowl … leaves … and realized today is the 1st day of fall.  Typical that i would choose leaves, and a gourd for that matter, to do my little bit of art for the day.  The air is dry, and though rather warm, it was a [...]

Healing Art

I find that making art is the best way for me to intuit, bring to the surface, seek understanding, and communicate what is going on inside of me.  The process of creating becomes a meditation on the person, situation, or problem that i am struggling with.  This piece is a gift celebrating the life of [...]

Starting again on blogging

OK…really…my last entry was ages ago! I had my 55th birthday yesterday and decided i could mark it in some way…so this is it.  I am really going to try to do better here.  i spent the day with my favorite person, Olivia Anne, 9 1/2 months old, and worked at healing a head cold.  
I [...]

Leaves of Blue and Green

Today this leaf wall hanging went to its new home.  Look how nice the colors photographed when placed on a ‘middle grey’ background.  All cotton and hand-quilted, i hope it will serve to “bring the outdoors in”.  I decided that I would not make another along the same theme until this piece was sold; i [...]

A New Day Finished

This wall hanging is finally finished; ready to hang and ready to list on ETSY…if i only had my store ready!  Diana and I printed these roosters a few years ago to use for potholders…i love using them again.  I hope this hanging will remind me that i can start over every day…especially when the [...]

Prairie Coneflower

These are blooming in my front yard right now.  As the centers mature, there will be tiny seeds that the birds will love.  This is a native prairie plant of Tennessee that is fairly rare, so i am glad that it is thriving here.  I have finished another wall hanging, mentioned in earlier posts - A [...]

Finished a Piece

Huzzah…a piece is finished and pictures have been taken.  This is “April Offerings”, started in April and here it is June 13.  Oh well, i am learning to wait and see when i cannot figure out what to do next, what the next part will be.  The nest is made of tiny beads, the eggs [...]