slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: art
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Looking at the computer hurts my head. Typing on the computer hurts my hands. But weaving this random weave basket from the Virginia creeper vines in the Back Forty was a very pleasant activity yesterday! I’ll finish another that I started in a few minutes.
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This time my place of work closed for the entire day and announced it before we all left for work. I woke up earlier than usual, though. Any other day I’d be lolling in bed, groaning about leaving my warm cocoon. We’re getting a slick coating of ice over this snow now. Bad winter weather…
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My mind in on art retreats again. Actually, my mind is seldom NOT on art retreats, but I won’t go into the subject of obsession today. So, I am planning to go spend a week in mid-June on Prince Edward Island, rent a little oceanfront cottage on the Northumberland Strait, hopefully sharing the rent with…
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Oh dear. I have ended up joining so many fascinating social media groups that my art work remains in my head, an unacceptable situation which I hope to remedy this weekend since it is too frickin cold to work outside and we have no plans. One good thing is that Sandino’s work schedule has changed…
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I walk a short distance to work Monday through Friday, and my eyes are always sweeping the ground around me for natural or manmade found objects that I might be able to use one day. I am a natural scavenger. Often I bring home a stray earring or a feather. Today I plucked some dried…
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Whew! Anyone in the southeast US can tell you – we have had ENOUGH rain from the remnants of Ida. I am afraid to look in our basement since I know from the last flood that our sump pump doesn’t work. But we actually did better than I expected then so hopefully we will luck…
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I took two classes from L.K. Ludwig because I love her book Mixed Media Nature Journals so much and I couldn’t decide which class I wanted to take. She is teaching a monthly online photo journaling class – it’s not too late to sign up because it begins November 1! Take a look at her…
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Dan Essig’s “The Exquisite Corpse Mica Book” class L.K. Ludwig’s “Painted, Knotted, Sewn” class L.K. Ludwig’s “Outside Inside” class
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This paper was made with any kind of brown paper I could get my hands on, leftover plant fibers, and lots of dried basil blossoms. It smells nice. The paper was a little bigger than the cover, but I decided not to cut it down to fit. I like it sticking out. The cover was…
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Finally took a few photos tonight. This one is definitely for me. It is made with both recycled handmade paper and commercial writing paper. The cover is made with an envelope that Rice sent to me – too precious not to reuse! The binding was a bit tricky because I used lots of different scraps…
slowly she turned 