Posted in My Art Projects, That Lady Can Paint, Sew, Sculpt..., What I've Been Reading, tagged art, cats, fiction writers, humor, hunting, illustration, ink, Shirley Jackson, watercolor on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
♥ I just noticed that this is my 200th post! Woo-hoo! See #1 from 7 months ago: here. ♥
One of my favorite short stories is The Renegade by Shirley Jackson–it is perfectly creepy.
Our cat Mary has been exhibiting similarly poor behavior reminding me of this story. Mary was a pregnant stray that we took in [...]
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Posted in Making Art with the Little Lady, Motherhood, My Art Projects, That Lady Can Paint, Sew, Sculpt..., tagged children's art, illustration, illustration friday, ink, pears, rainbows, watercolor on May 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My contribution to the Illustration Friday theme of: Wide. Each week a theme is chosen for folks to contribute original paintings and illustrations. I made a few versions of the same design, playing around with color and her profile. When I was little I had a shirt with a rainbow that went across the chest and [...]
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I read about Allison Manch in the Seattle Weekly a few weeks back. Although I didn’t get a chance to see her show, I did check out her website. I love the embroidered song lyrics, especially the “Buffalo Stance”! (We taught Mogs how to do the Buffalo Stance pretty early on…I think it may be her [...]
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Now, if you’ve been reading this here blog for awhile you may have noticed that I’m a NPR lover. (Poor Mogs will have the voice of Daniel Shorr, Sylvia Poggioli and Carl Kassell permanently embedded in her brain. )
That said, it is NPR spring pledge drive time. Usually, I end up listening to the pledge [...]
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We’ve been visiting family in Colorado this week. While I was working on a little hand-sewing, my 11 year old niece came up and started asking about what I was doing. Judging by her questions I could tell she had never tried to sew. I promptly gave her two scraps of fabric, thread and needle and gave [...]
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Posted in That Lady Can Paint, Sew, Sculpt..., tagged art, artists, dyed fabric, fabric, Malka Dubrawsky, quilting, sewing on February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Malka Dubrawsky is an artist and mama from Texas. She hand dyes cotton fabric which she then uses to create quilts, pillows, coaster and bags. She also sells her hand dyed and batiked fabric. Check out her Etsy shop and her blog! Her colorful artwork really cheers me, and she takes beautiful photographs to boot!
I struggle with patterned fabric in my own [...]
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Check out the apron entries for the Tie One On polka dot challenge. This one by Ellie is my favorite of them all. I love the hand-embroidery and the pockets….so great!
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I love, love, love FiberArts Magazine. For Christmas I received two gift subscriptions. There was a little snafu with the subscription department and they sent me two copies of the current issue. So…I will share my extra issue with the first person who asks for it–free of charge! (Leave me a comment and I’ll contact [...]
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Spoken by Gertrude Stein in response to Isadora Duncan’s death. Her scarf entangling with a car wheel.
I made this Caterpillar Button Scarf yesterday…I guess it should have a warning label.
Another story I read about Isadora Duncan is the one where her two children died when the car they were in stalled on a hill. When the chauffer got [...]
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The above banner is a photo of a sweater that my grandma made. In her day she could knit up a storm. I don’t think I ever saw her in anything but a hand knit skirt and sweater. Growing up in the seventies I was given a handknit sweater for just about every occasion. Most were [...]
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