slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: North Carolina
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This past weekend, Susanne and I went to a wonderful Zhen Xian Bao book class at Topsail Beach, NC, taught by Leslie Marsh and Kim Beller. The first day we spent natural dyeing with plant materials and indigo on paper and fabric. The next day was spent constructing the book, which is made with glue,…
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Last weekend Sandy and I went to Lake Waccamaw and I gathered materials to dye my project for India Flint’s online class, “The Alchemist’s Apron.” I’ve experimented with natural dyes down there before without a whole lot of luck. This time, using a good mordant and bundling the plant materials directly in contact with the…
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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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Yesterday’s protest rally was a family affair: husband Sandy, sister Lisa, me, brother-in-law Tim. My favorite sign was the Black Mirror sign, although I like that the sign on the left covers most of the bases: I also delivered my book to Artspace where the Triangle Book Arts exhibition will be installed. Opening reception is…
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I’ve been neglectful of the blog, as usual, but my mental health bogged down for a few weeks. I feel better now. I threw a soiree for Sandy’s 65th birthday at Cafe Europa on Nov. 16 that went well. My sister and brother-in-law came to it, which made us both very happy. I don’t have…
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My “summer” is almost over, at least as far as work goes. I have a job that is most intense January-early May, calms down in summer, then starts ratcheting up in early August as the new semester begins with a new cohort of history graduate students. September quiets down a little, then October hits like…
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Easter at Lake Waccamaw seems to be on its way to tradition status. We rolled in around 8 p.m. on Friday night and went straight to Dale’s for fried oysters and shrimp. When we walked out around 9 p.m., the mayflies were swarming. They calmed down during the day on Saturday and Sunday, but at…
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Well, you know. You know how it is with me if you’ve been reading my blog for a while. Anyway, since I last posted, the election brought a lot of attention to North Carolina. Ben Harper showed up at the pub across the street, sang a few songs, asked us to vote for Hillary, then…
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This was the first time I’ve been able to go to Lake Waccamaw for July 4th. Fred’s house (I will always think of it that way, I guess) is always full on holiday weekends but this year my sister has a house down the road from there and I was able to stay there. I…
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A postcard tapestry for the unjuried exhibition Travelling Tapestry: Textile Mail Art, a collaboration of The Museo Textil de Oaxaca, the Museo de la Filatelia de Oaxaca, and the American Tapestry Alliance. The deadline to mail it by regular postal service mail was today and I made it! “Save Our State”, 5″ x 7″, cotton.
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