slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Month: June 2010
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Sandy and I have decided to take a road trip through the heart of Colorado to visit the southern National Parks, since the rains of the last week have caused a lot of flooding in the north and east. We are heading south through the Rocky Mountains, hanging a right at the Great Sand Dunes…
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Sandy and I outside the Denver Art Museum
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As usual, my garden runs behind everybody else’s garden. I do have a couple of little peppers and the tomatoes are soon to come. The lettuce is just about to bolt in the hot weather, but there are many varieties in that patch under the maple tree, so I anticipate that I will be able…
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I made this small book this week with the techniques that I’ve learned from artists LK Ludwig and Albie Smith. It is filled with my handmade iris and abaca paper, which I made with the assistance and mentoring of artist Susanne Martin. If the weather does not turn to thunderstorms, I will be at the…
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These will be for sale at the First Friday Indie Market this Friday evening, June 4, from 4-9 p.m. on the corner of South Elm and MLK Drive, downtown Greensboro, NC. They will be listed on Etsy soon after if they are not adopted then by my sweet, gentle, highly intelligent and impeccably selective readers.…
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When I left Melanie Testa’s class Soy Wax Batik on Monday, the last day of Art and Soul, I felt like I had made a friend. This class was so much fun and stress-free. I rolled my pieces of wet painted fabric in a roll of freezer paper and brought them home to finish off.…
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Saturday night was vendor’s night at Art and Soul. I don’t handle a crowd well, so I got in and out of there pretty quickly. Dan Essig was vending (not teaching) and he said that the company near Asheville where he bought his mica had gone out of business. I bought some very translucent sheets…
slowly she turned 