Two friends have found new homes in the world

 

Making the birch forest

I find more and more that the process of working on all the elements that go into my art is such a source of joy. Today it was creating the fabric that will become birch forests. When I finished this piece I thought, "How can I cut this up?" I want to make something whole cloth with this. Maybe I will. But I know that I have the power to do it again, though the language of the bark will be different, of course.

Views from the woods and the woodpile

 

#buttonitup #putabeadonit continuing series

 

Day 3 - #the100dayproject

 Exhale

Beach breezes bending grasses and ocean spray

Day 2 - Digging Deep

 Day 2 of #the100dayproject, Digging Deep

Day One - #the100dayproject

Just getting started with the wind at my back.  This is part of #the100dayproject on Instragram. "Choose a creative project, do it every single day for 100 days, and share..."

 

Quilted Uke

 Sometimes there's an idea that sticks, and won't be let go.

I'm going to cover this ukulele with quilted patchwork.  Here's the start.

I felt this

I started creating these felted Pincushions for Democracy in response to an interview I heard between Rebecca Solnit and Heather Cox Richardson, author of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. It's my way of "taking up oxygen" for democracy, in a time when our poor, battered democracy could use some help and some hope. 

 

Into the New

Hello, sun!

 

Winter Whites

 It's time for our winter whites. And greys. And blacks. There's something about the low white sun that pulls me to think of ways to portray it. How to make white so blinding and fade it out to the surrounding monochromes. I'm always grateful to have these things to ponder--in every season, on every walk.

Falling for fall

 As always, the colors are swoon-worthy, and the only way to make me forget about the summer we're leaving behind.  Fall's beauty, its trickery, is meant to create the illusion that it will go on forever...

Summer inspirations