slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Visual journal
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This day was very much like the previous day, but less brutal temperatures. I enjoy stitching my cloth weavings very much.
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I’ve taken some of Jude Hill’s archived online classes and right now I’m taking her Contemporary Boro I class. Online classes usually don’t do much for me. I get tempted to pay for them and then I drop out. Jude keeps me inspired and excited. I really really really really really like cloth weaving, and…
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A wet morning, with the temperature dropping all day to settle around 4 to 8 degrees tonight. We ain’t used to this down here. I picked up that beautiful blue and green stone on a Puget Sound beach. Theo is still my lil sweet potato and he still likes to play.
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“Oyster Santa” at some friends’ “Old Christmas” party. So good! Prince Pablo on his throne.
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Cutting up clothes not good enough to donate for rag rugs and fabric weaving and collage. Pine branch shadow on the walk back from Tate Street.
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A cold day everywhere, it seems. Sandy and I went to the Greenhill Winter Show. To my delight, Catherine Ellis’ woven shibori fabrics were scattered throughout the gallery. I got to see them up close! (I REALLY wanted to buy one, but one of my goals this year is to cut back on unnecessary spending.)…
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Back to work. Also back to journaling. Now I’m glad that I didn’t sell this one in the gallery. It’s a good one. More “work” on the 2014 map. This is fun. I doodle and refine, doodle and refine. It has helped me get my head just a little bit straighter too, although I am…
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Today I started my written journal for the year. Several hours went into ideas and scribbling and looking at maps for Mapping 2014 Artfully. Guess I’m leaning toward drawing it now. The end of the journey is a morass of ink, but I’m getting closer to a firm idea. I can change all the sheets…
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Is he expressing his admiration for the lovely curl of Miss Lucy’s tail? Gathering raggedy boro materials. Tomorrow will bring my annual year-end post.
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Pablo is in love with the kitten in the dishwasher. I will continue to try to get the audio – he is hilarious but stops meowing and warbling as soon as he notices me watching. The cardboard is taped under the dishwasher and cabinets because there are holes that kittens can see and fit into…
slowly she turned 