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I have this recurring dream where I'm in a really exclusive fabric shop and I'm falling in love with all the material. I go from bolt to bolt, unrolling it to see patterns, feeling its texture in my hands. Sometimes I even smell it. The experience is so heady, and I'm so high on all the beauty. Then I go to the pattern aisle and look through the ( Read more... )

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The first of May. Always one of my favorite days on the calendar. And thankfully the torrential rain of yesterday has stopped and the skies are cloudy but with sun. It's also hot as summertime.
I like that May 1st also celebrates International Worker's DayTonight my friend, Liz, and I will be monoprinting on gelli plates. I've never done monoprints ( Read more... )

The forecast says tomorrow will be sunny and the week will be mostly clear, but the extended forecast says the following two weeks will be rainy. I wonder how they can predict that? I'm so weary of the rain-- our flat roofed house makes it very apparent when it's raining because we hear it coming down. And the past several days it's been relentless ( Read more... )

I'm trying to write here at least once a week. I think that's good if I can keep going with it ( Read more... )

Cold is finally waning after almost two weeks. I made it back to water aerobics this morning. First since becoming sick. Hard going getting back into it. Still feel washed out and dazed ( Read more... )

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Went to a lab to get some routine blood work done, waiting, waiting, waiting for them to call my name after I signed in. Finally I go up, only to find it's not my insurance company's "preferred lab"-- so I drove down the road to the "preferred lab" (all this in sloshy snow coming down) only to find the waiting room jammed to the gills with people ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the closing reception for the show of my coastlines at Hamilton Gallery. 2-4pm for which, I will be on hand. Supposed to be up in the 40º's which should be really nice after the weeks of bitter cold ( Read more... )