slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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I really struggled at the end on who to vote for in the presidential primary. The rest was pretty easy. I’ve been a Sanders Sister for years, even before he ever ran the first time. But I really really really like Elizabeth Warren. I could not decide right up to filling in the ballot, and…
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On Saturday morning I worked on collages again. They are still in progress, but I may be close to finished with this one. It tells a story about choice. I pulled the text out of a Victorian novel called The Brown Eyes of Mary. At first I intended them to be random blocks of text,…
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I always think that snow melt is prettier than snow. Look at these textures. I was reminded of the Burren in Ireland (bottom photo), a huge water sculpted landscape.
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I didn’t take photos. Guess I’m not used to having a working camera with me yet. It is our first snow that stuck, so it made everyone excited, and it was pretty covering the tree limbs. I’m happy that I don’t have to go to work until noon, although I can go in at 10…
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Last night I visited my friend Lisa along with a couple of other cool women for our monthly “craftivist” get-together and we took a really good look at the crazy quilt Lisa has been making for her daughter for quite a few years now. It includes scraps of her clothing. The embroidery is stunning, and…
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Welp, Sandy took me out for a huge seafood feast at Full Moon Oyster Bar last night. The oysters were some of the best I ever tasted. This was taken before the meal, but I joked on Facebook that he just saw the bill. Another reason we belong together – we are both goofs. When…
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This won’t be long. I’ve done nothing all day but look at spreadsheets, push numbers around, and eat leftover soup for lunch. I think that the Sandman plans to take me out for either oysters or Italian for dinner. Yesterday was nice, though. I built a fire in the wood stove and cuddled up in…
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I piddled around for a long time yesterday and finally decided that I could at least do some backgrounds that I would collage over. This proves to be a great way to get started. These started with old book pages, a 1931 newspaper page from the Oroville, Colorado Mercury-Register and hawthorns. This morning I added…
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Well, first off, I thought that I had made the last post here private, so if you read it, :::::sigh::::: my first impulse is to apologize, but I won’t. I needed to get some stuff out of my head and to do so I addressed it to the world. Posting it made me feel better,…
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The leader of our collage study group, Barbara Livingston, introduced me to a couple of artists that speak strongly to me: Hannalore Baron, and Irwin Kremen. I realize that I am not too fond of the white watercolor paper for the backgrounds and plan to trim these or start with a different color substrate in…
slowly she turned 