slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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Even though this Triangle Book Arts group exhibition at Artspace in Raleigh, North Carolina is much better seen in person, as any book art exhibition is, I took a few photos yesterday when Sandy and I visited. Book arts are so interactive – in many cases over half of what is there is inside a…
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Birthdays with sevens are weird for me. Today marks my 57th orbit around the sun. The solar astrophysicist that owned the AirBNB we stayed at in Boulder told me to think of birthdays that way. I love it. I’ll choose lucky, Alex, for $3000! ^^^She knows that you parked there, and she is judging you.…
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First, the tapestry diary for the week. The knots are showing on purpose, by the way. We had some problems to figure out this week at work. Fortunately, they were resolved and next week’s path forward should be clearer. I wove a little bit on Cathedral, but my main focus was stitching this Japanese tsunobukuro…
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This was a busy week. First, here’s the tapestry diary as of last Sunday. I haven’t worked on it so far this week so it will be a simple narrow entry for the entire week and I’ll weave it as soon as I am done here. On Tuesday, I went to Seth Apter’s 52 Card…
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WHOA IF TRUE! I’m so bad. Wonkette is the main source of my news these days. I can’t take much of anything else. Sheer burn out. Which is partly why these coal carts evolved their way into my tapestry diary early this week for the end of January. There is more of a story here,…
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Last night I found a new artist crush at GreenHill gallery’s “Slow Art” exhibition in Greensboro, NC. My camera ran out of juice, but the photos didn’t do justice to the work anyway. For example, I am not posting the photos of the series that stopped me in my tracks, “The Efforts of Preserving Oneself.”…
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This time, with a full pot of coffee! Who knows where this might go? Yesterday I made a sudden decision to get my hair cut. Nothing drastic, just what Mr. Robert at Leon’s Beauty School describes as “my annual shearing.” I love Mr. Robert. Anyway, it looks healthier and bouncier and it will probably get…
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I spent so much time on other blogs, Facebook, and Instagram that the morning and the coffee is nearly gone. And some weaving. Here’s the area in “Cathedral” that I’m concentrating on this weekend. I’m deviating from the cartoon in this area, so it’s a bit tricky. Another detail. It’s nice to get back out…
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A lot of articles and posts came out in the past few years about people who have decided to drastically cut spending for a year. Pledges have run the gamut of the obsessive compulsive buy absolutely nothing, create no waste, grow all food and barter plans to more moderate plans to cut down and purge.…
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A quickie post to alert readers to the ATA blog tour, which started with this fantastic collage-to-tapestry design post from Molly Elkind. Using Collage to Make a Tapestry Design: The ATA 2018 Blog Tour
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