slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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arghh, I was going to write the post about my tapestry progress first, but I have, once again, lost my camera between Thursday and today. This is what happens when you live with the kind of monkey mind that I have been developing since menopause. So I’ll try again with photos later this week and…
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As much as I despise blogging on my Kindle, I could not let my 10th blogiversary go by without a post. On Feb. 27, 2005, I began this blog by writing about my back yard garden. I was in the Masters of Liberal Arts program at UNCG and I was focusing on sustainable food issues…
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Mostly ice.
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I’m wondering if I should rename it 50 Shades of Green. This will be the most complex tapestry I’ve ever done. I’m so excited about the challenge! This rascal is why I have to keep my loom in my closet.
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I spent a good part of my spare time in the last two weeks taking nearly everything off shelves in the studio, everything out of drawers, sorting items into labeled boxes, and putting it back in something that resembled order. After a couple of trips to donate unwanted stuff and a lot of trash removal…
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This week has been a little weird. Getting back to work the first week of spring semester is always a bit of a downer because it is an uphill slog for a couple of months. I know that at the end of the semester I will have a very light workload for a couple of…
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These were actually taken before Christmas, but they are probably still there and I love street art.
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Today I put together my new-to-me Shannock tapestry floor loom. It’s good that I’m talented at reading instructions and making sense out of a mess, because although it was meticulously packed, I missed that there were three separate instruction packets for the loom. It can be converted to a four-harness table loom so there are…
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I finished “98% Tapestry” well before midnight and my friend Susanne was there to photograph the cutting off. Now I’m working on the Philippine edge on the hems. I’m still unsure how I’ll mount it.
slowly she turned 