slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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My point with the last post, and I do have one, was that I’ve been pretty needy lately. I’ve been ::gasp:: Internet shopping for craft supplies, and that monologue kept coming into my head until I realized that it was a warning from my inner watcher, who is very frugal and also gets mad if…
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I don’t need anything except this. And that’s it and that’s the only thing I need, is this. I don’t need this or this. Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that’s all I need. And this remote control. The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control,…
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Also known as "miner’s lettuce," claytonia is a great salad green for the winter garden. It is a favorite of Eliot Coleman’s. Since it is really a weed, it volunteers easily. This patch is from the claytonia I planted last winter that I let go to seed. It tastes a lot like chickweed, which is…
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Yesterday was an excellent day. For one thing, I think that I’ve found the car that I want to buy – a Honda Fit. It was rated as a best green buy by the Sierra Club in the class of wagons. I test drove one, and although it felt really weird because it was an…
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First there was the photo, taken at Healing Ground in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. Then there was the idea and the cartoon… Then there was a long period of dithering because I couldn’t decide between two approaches. One was to make the “path” blue, the maze white, and sew on buttons or smooth worn pieces…
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I just wrote this long random post, looked back into the archives to see when I planted my tomatoes last year, and realized that it was my blogiversary. How about that! I won’t try to do a retrospective. I’m looking toward the future right now. Last night I looked at the found object jewelry/sculpture class…
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cotton yarn, cardboard, brown paper, shipping label, ink I jammed up my printer playing with this brown paper and I think that I killed it! But I do like the effect it made on the words. The “prettier” side is actually the back of the card. It is supposed to have my contact information on…
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My mother visited the South Carolina Cotton Museum in Bishopsville, SC today, and discovered something interesting. It’s located in the livery stable that my grandfather operated back at the turn of the twentieth century. I have rather odd ancestry – odd because of a line of youngest children born to older parents. My great-grandfather, William…
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Me: “Don’t you think that smashed hubcap would make a great base for some found art?’ Him: “I think that if this light changes and you’re not in the car, you’ll be on your own.” He reaches over and locks my door. “Do you have your seat belt on?” I have to do the same…
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The Take It Further Challenge for February had two options: a color combination and/or a concept prompt of “What are you old enough to remember?” I wanted to do both, but blanked out on how to do it until yesterday. My concept had more to do with technology – the phone system, mimeographs instead of…
slowly she turned 