Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, coincidence, flickr on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Last night Tony and I both posted blog entries that had the exact same phrase at the same time, although each was on a different subject.
The other day Tony showed me the publicity photos of the other artists participating with him in the city art grant this summer. I saw a photo of a woman I had [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economy, family, gas prices, parenting, recession on May 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Take Your Kid to Work Day
Originally uploaded by wholeclothdesigns
Today is Take Your Child To Work Day. Mogs went to visit her dad’s office and “helped” him scan some files. Her favorite part was going to get a slice of pizza afterwards.
On the walk downtown I passed a Shell station where the price for unleaded was [...]
Posted in My Art Projects, Uncategorized, tagged art, cat, children's book, girl, illustration, ink, ocean, watercolor on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The next image for the “My Bonnie” project. I scanned it with my low-end scanner so a few details are lost, i.e. she has stripes around both pant legs, but you get the general idea. I really like the color values in the original watercolor and ink illustration. The yellow gives it an aged look [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, creative process, earthquakes, volcano on May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Mistakes are portals of discovery”–James Joyce
I’m brooding. I’m in a bit of a funk. Not a depressed funk, more of a contemplative funk. I knew that once I had taken down my art show in April that I would need a break. I needed time to do some thinking, looking and reading. Instead of taking [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am in the midst of last minute prep for my show on Friday night. I’ve paced myself pretty well, but do have one last quilt to finish up. I have the binding to bind and a bit more embroidery. For some reason I am doing these in that order, as if having the binding [...]
Posted in I Am A Sewing Machine, My Art Projects, Uncategorized, tagged convention, county, delegates, Obama, sewing on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was an Obama delegate at our county democratic convention. It was an incredibly long day, but well organized considering the number of amendments we had to amend. Obama had a clear majority, as expected; although I like to think the cougar gave him a run for his money with a very rousing speech…(like I said, it [...]
Posted in Motherhood, Uncategorized, tagged blogging, family, friends on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My childhood friend, Anna, wrote a sweet post about my blog on her new blog called The Full Catastrophe for Blog Reader Appreciation Day. One aspect of blogging I treasure is the way it forges new friendships with people from far away places, while helping old friends from far away places stay in touch. The act of blogging has encouraged me [...]
Posted in Motherhood, My Art Projects, Uncategorized, tagged art, creative life, family, marriage, parenting, writing on April 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It has been ten years since the last time I had an art show during ArtWalk. As I hurry about preparing for the show at the end of the month, my thoughts return to those days a decade ago. Tony and I had met and became friends through an art critique group. Tony was writing short stories at a fairly regular [...]
Posted in Motherhood, My Art Projects, Uncategorized, tagged applique, Motherhood, parenting, quilting on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s opening day at our farmer’s market. Mogs loves to run up to the apple bins and pluck one out for herself. Tony and I scramble behind her, digging out change to give to the vendor for the apple she has already started to devour. The sweet vendor gave us a freebie today. Maybe this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, community, small business on April 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A recent article in our local paper profiled 4 small businesses that were closing in our downtown core. (The article didn’t include the most tragic of all: BuyOlympia is heading to Portland! I know Pat has some pretty good reasons to do so, but it sure does hurt!) We are a smallish city with approx. [...]
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