Last weekend, we stuffed clothing in suitcases, packed a picnic dinner for the car, and drove to NY for my mom’s first ever art show opening. She has been painting for the past ten years as a way to relax and unwind in the middle of a busy week. Mostly, she paints in two separate…
in a bottle
Well, hello! It feels like forever since I last wrote in this lovely little space, and I am so glad to be back. Right when I felt as if I had recovered from that stomach bug, a mean, relentless chest cold paid my body a visit. I haven’t had my voice for over a week,…
m a r k e t
I’m honored and thrilled to be a vendor at the Brooklyn Lyceum Food and Craft Market on May 1 & 2. I’ve been perusing the shops and blogs of all of the vendors who will be there, and it makes me giddy. Oh! My! The next month will be filled with cutting old barn boards,…
sew-a-sprout tutorial
The sun is shining, birds are singing, and as is always the case in March, I have a deep desire to bring spring inside my dusty, still-too-cold house. The problem is that it is slim pickings outside my New England front door. On an after dinner walk yesterday, Chick collected some stones, a rusty bolt,…
moleskine collages
A dear friend gave me a three pack of pocket size Moleskine notebooks for my birthday, and, this afternoon, I was inspired to create little fabric, felt, found paper collages on two of the covers. I’m still pondering the third. I’ve been so caught up in stamp carving and block prints that I forgot how…
five
Wowzers. I’ve been away from this little blog space for a bit. It was an unexpected, but much needed, blog break. I have this strange throat problem that is taking forever to heal. It all began when I choked on a tuna sandwich on our way to Philly about a month ago. The doctor thinks…
heart clips
Chick has spent the past year pawing through the brown paper bag filled with the valentines her classmates bestowed upon her last year. She loves the glitter, the hearts, the tissue paper, and the occasional super hero, and she finds satisfaction in attributing each valentine to its creator. So, when I brought up making valentines…
p r i n t i n g
In the midst of the darkest days of the year, I surprised myself and created a little bit of spring. This botanical stamp was made using an acrylic block and some $0.75 adhesive back craft foam. I drew my design onto the foam, cut out the stem and leaves, peeled the paper of the back…
bag of wood
Last week, while running into our local lumber yard/hardware store to pick up some paint swatches, I noticed big (huge even) $4.00 plastic netted bags of scrap lumber greeting me on my way in. I asked the guy behind the counter if the wood is loaded up with chemicals and he assured me that I…
r e d
I’ve been enamored by the colors in our backyard. Our biggest maple tree was rusty red on Thursday, and by Saturday it turned fiery red, and by Sunday, when the wind and rain had cleared, almost all of the leaves had fallen off of the tree. Towards the end of Sunday afternoon the light was…
m i x e d
Here are some pictures of the collage ornament project, which I promised in my last post. Chick and I worked on these at home since we have a few birthdays to account for and a Halloween treat to send to her little cousin in California. It was the kind of activity that became sort of…
t o g e t h e r
Here are some Story Stones from the Play series that I spent much of July and August working on. There are many more little children and play things in the series, and I plan to slowly share them on the blog in the coming months. Recently, I was honored to be asked to sell my…
Memory Cards
This project started because of Chick’s deep desire to continue the ferry adventure conversation. These days, when we get out of the car, she asks if we can pretend our whole house is a ferry boat, and when she goes to sleep she asks for stories about ship adventures in the high seas. Little bits…
swoop
Her Nest Recycled bits of paper and such on smooth finish Strathmore paper. xo e
above the couch
I’ve been busy working on paper collages for the past couple of weeks. Most of the paper was found in my recycle bin or delivered as junk mail, and some of it is from a volume of a dilapidated antique dictionary given to me by my dear friend Maddie (xoxo). As of Friday night, a…
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