I’ve used the headline “Art All Day” before, and it seems to refer to a day like Thursday…a day filled up from morning to night with a wide variety of art work to consider, which for people like us is about the best possible day. We headed to Portland early and the first stop was […]
In the late fall my long-time friend Nan moved to Portland and took her studio with her. Today I took a nap-time break on Sidney Day (Monday, the day when R & I routinely care for our adorable grandson) and dropped in to her new Portland studio. Her business is called Souvenir Suitcase… …and here’s […]
“Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called picketers) congregate outside a location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to draw public attention to a cause.” It’s been a LONG time since I’ve been on a picket line. Tonight I joined a few intrepid activists on […]
The lovely Tuesday quilt group met this morning at Lynda’s…always fascinating. She has with an eye and a sensibility close to my own. She has new quilts, collects old weird quilt tops that maybe have something quirky about them, and makes interesting combinations…always. Here’s what we were looking at today…her own quilt on the bed…I […]
Since 1992 we’ve spent the first week of most years at the beach, where often it is sunny and bright. We slow down after the holiday rush, sleep in, walk the beach and plan the year ahead. This year the first day of the new year looked like this…
Even if you aren’t exactly in the Christmas mood, stuff just starts coming into the house…Ellen’s yummy fruitcake? Yep… ho.ho.ho… Better go write some cards…now that I have the stamps…
The first 40 pages of the initial draft are written for the monograph Roger Hull is writing about painter Louis Bunce (1907-1983). Bunce was active in the art life of Portland, Oregon, for some 50 years, spending 6 years during that time in New York City. He was a student at the Art Student’s League […]
I haven’t been slacking exactly, except maybe for reporting things here… What a fall it has been…kind of a whirlwind of activity including birthdays… new studio, sewing, family, art, writing, house projects…THANKSGIVING! …a walking boy… family and feasts are good… and the END of the fall fix-up! Yay! On we go…
A quick note on the ugly fabric challenge of last June…Kathleen gave us each a piece of this fabric, (well…not each of us, because a few people found the fabric a little overwhelming…) with the challenge that we needed to bring back a finished quilt in December. So yesterday we met at our house for […]
The “fall fix-up” around here has taken a lot of our time and energy…my quilting time has been limited, plus the sewing room was re-worked…(it was kind of a mess) so after I cleaned out the flat file and it went to the basement, the painters came… I took the glass doors off the white […]
On The Way 