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 […]
Last week was a family milestone…young master Hull celebrated his first birthday, and we celebrated with him. My brother Bru made him a card… and the Hull/Decker tradition of the silver cup continues… it was festive… Doug and Marie brought Finley’s Thomas train… Asher came and brought a gift for Sidney, (which he helped unwrap)… […]
I took a new little studio this fall to do a drawing project away from my home studio. It was very economical, in an historic structure, plenty of parking, 4 minutes from home. It has been a pleasant and quiet place to work so far…and even though I share the space, I rarely coincide with […]
Louis Bunce has moved into a room in our heads these days, as R begins phase two of the intensive research and writing to prepare the show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in 2017, and the book (working title “Louis Bunce: Dialog with Modernism”). He’s wading through interviews, websites, newspaper reviews and other […]
I’m cleaning the dining room chairs in advance of the new table that is coming in December. What seemed a chore yesterday, today became a meditation on old family things, the patina of age, and my mother-in-law. The chairs have been at our house for 20 years, since Mo died. As the eldest child, R […]
Annually, in the fall when the geese start south, we start thinking of doing something “new” in the house. “The Fall Fix-up” we call it. This year the project is growing like topsy…it began with just painting the trim around the upstairs windows after they were repaired, and then we decided to switch rooms on […]
The painters are coming in November to paint the woodwork upstairs…which means I have to move the flat-file. Oh “ye gods” as my Mama used to say. It’s a mess back there… Some paintings on paper, some just plain blank paper, but MOSTLY…drawings. And most of them are life-drawings. I was thinking of going to […]
The Portland painter Harry Widman died last night after a long fight against Alzheimer’s. He was surrounded by his family and friends, and at home. We met Harry and Mardy in 2008, when Roger Hull began to write Harry’s story and curate a show of his work that opened at the Hallie Ford Museum of […]
We “scampered up” (as Harriet J. Connor used to say) to Portland Monday to see SRH and continue our training for a street Band… and for me to get to play with his toys… but we worked in a nice visit with George and Phyllis where we saw the big version of Johanson’s painting…recently back […]
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