When I start cutting fabric and thread my sewing machine, I’m exploring ideas while imagining the end result and hoping that it will turn out well enough. It is satisfying to create something for my home that is useful and pleasant to look at, but […]
I am writing this from my kitchen table, the house is quiet for now and mourning doves and sparrows are taking advantage of the empty and mostly silent yard to forage for bugs or seeds in our grass. I’m thinking about the big pot outside […]
I can see our little garden from the big windows in the corner of our kitchen. We planted late, but the zucchini, tomatoes, kale, peppers and herbs are flourishing. I thought we would wait a year before we had any garden but Ray insisted that […]
We moved into our new house last week. After two weeks of scraping vinyl off floors, peeling wall paper, painting, packing and cleaning we are home, though not completely settled. We have years of projects ahead. The house will keep us occupied with projects to […]
Recently I’ve had a chance to look back at a lot of my work which has inspired me to send more of it out into the world. I’ve reopened my shop and filled it with many of my favorite two dimensional pieces. I created these […]
Welcome to my new website! As I worked to get this site ready and transfer all of the posts from my blogger site, it gave me a chance to see what I had worked on and shared over the past several years. When looking back, […]
Now that I have a crawling, curious almost one year old, I feel myself wading more deeply in the muddy midst of parenting than I was in the first months after she was born. Some days it is a swamp of laundry piles, never ending […]
At first it feels like gripping the textured plastic holds, twenty or thirty feet up in the air secured by a rope and a harness; unable to go any farther, readying to let go. That scary second of swinging free but no doubt […]
I have always valued time to do nothing while I let my gaze and mind wander. I can think of many childhood moments watching rain drops slither across the car window or waking up and staring at a crack in the ceiling or the colored […]
It’s been a gray month. Many things have not gone as planned, many things have taken my mind far from the here and now and left my heart anxious. Though I wish I didn’t have reason to be marching and demonstrating twice in one week, […]
