slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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This Labor Day weekend was so fabulous that I am going to divide it up into several posts. First, the reason I went: Shibori + MX Dyes with Heather Allen-Swarttouw at Cloth Fiber Workshop. The Japanese word shibori translates as “to bind” in English. I’m not going to try to give a lesson in shibori…
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Well, this week has been different. Theo got better but on Sunday Lucy started hacking and I assumed that she had a hairball that she was choking back down. Then she stopped eating and drinking and hid, mostly under the bed where I could hear her gag all night. By Tuesday, I was very concerned…
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Real life has gotten a lot busier now. Classes begin tomorrow, and the new graduate students came in last week for advising and orientation. I have to say that I’m impressed with them so far. I love my job, as I say often! A large part is due to my co-workers, who have great personalities,…
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Covers done with woven painted paper, coptic binding, acrylic color washed papers. I folded a few pages so that you can stick stuff in them like business cards or receipts or lists or love notes or photos or whatever.
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Just posted this on Facebook, but I welcome all smart asses to play along: Okay, y’all. I have to meet and finish this day with a sense of humor. I’m doing colonoscopy prep today. So, just for giggles, I’m asking all my smart-ass friends (you know who you are) to come up with stuff I…
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I’ve made one similar to this before. I just love these old nature illustrations. I download them from eBay and print them on my Epson printer. It reminds me of looking through my great aunt’s old books back in the 1960s when I was really little. You could entertain me with a set of encyclopedias…
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This is an altered book that I’ve been working on WAY too long. I finally reworked the cover and voila, it is done at last. The pages are acrylic color washed Rising Stonehenge papers.
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It’s been a great weekend so far. The Elements reception went well, and everybody really liked the cheese and apple breads I baked. I went by Zaytoon and picked up a couple of their spreads to go with them, and tried to give them some advertising all night. So many wonderful small local restaurants have…
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From our artists’ co-op: “Come to Elements Gallery in downtown Greensboro this Friday for First Friday 6-9. Meet our talented artists and check out our Featured Artists for August… Jo Anne Doyle, a very talented potter has many new items in the gallery this week. Deb Covington has brought in some beautiful additional paintings. John…
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