slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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I am on my second little pot of coffee. I feel the need for extra caffeine today – my energy level has been low all week. The Back Forty has been calling me and I have done as much as I can, which isn’t much. The weather is beautiful this weekend. I pulled up English…
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The clouds at the top of this piece are going to prove to be the most challenging. I may need to dye some silk. But I’m going to try to go back in with a little dark grey on the tops of the bottom clouds and mix in a little more light grey on the…
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Stenciling gesso onto bookboard makes both a nice raised design and a resist. My work area in Albie’s class. The bookboards above have been trimmed down and painted, and will be bound with a coptic or French stitch using the papers drying in the rear of the photos. A very wee book – I like…
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I’m sitting at Gate 4 in the San Jose Airport, where I have already purchased my required refrigerator magnets, one for San Jose, and one pack of art magnets which I had to purchase all four in order to get one that is titled “Guido Cat.” This retreat was such a wonderful event. I like…
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I need to take more photos, but as usual, I became entranced with what I was doing. I kept going until I absolutely could not do it anymore. Today I have to remind myself to SIT DOWN. My hands are not too bad, but my feet and back were letting me know it last night.…
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Here I am at Great Bear Coffee in the lovely little town of Los Gatos, California, celebrating my 50th birthday all by my magnificent self! It has pretty much been raining since I got here, but I came armed with a good raincoat and an iffy umbrella that tends to blow out in the gusts.…
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My focus this weekend is getting healed up as much as possible for my trip and getting organized. I made such a mess yesterday looking for some black linen thread that it looked like it would be impossible for me to ever get my bedroom/studio back to a workable area. But I had to, so…
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Latest progress on the Sunrise Tapestry. I could see doing a series of these from the photos I took of this one particular sunrise. But I’ll need to order or dye more purple silk. A commission that I just finished. It is a gift for a historian. I’ll write a coffee pot post tomorrow morning.
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Everything this week was all messed up. I had a lot of things that needed to be done at work, and had to weigh that against spreading the germs of this nasty bug that I am STILL sick with. My co-workers had serious medical things going on in their families or were sick too. I…
slowly she turned 