The story of my pet tulip in pictures. Below, taken early last week
Then, Friday.
Then Saturday morning. 
Too tall too soon...
SUNDAY!!!!!
3.29.11
The story of my pet tulip in pictures. Below, taken early last week
Then, Friday.
Then Saturday morning. Too tall too soon...
SUNDAY!!!!!
3.28.11
My herb garden was a gift from Stanley's family Here is how it looked last week.
It looks like chives, one is basil and I forgot what the third is. Things are growing!
and this week
It looks like chives, one is basil and I forgot what the third is. Things are growing!
3.27.11
A pig from a niece. Some time ago, after Flat Stanley went home I received a box that had this pig in it, a necklace with pretty colored sand in it, and 3 sets of measuring cups and some measuring spoons. Our house has been missing a one quarter cup measuring cup for such a long time. Even when we tried to replace it and bought a new set, the new set was missing the one quarter size. Flat Stanley must have noticed and now we have all we need.
A hat. It will be a Windschief and I am using Berroco Pure Merino Heather in a nifty blue tone.
3.26.11
My daffodils are supposed to be these three:
Orangery
Mountain Dragon
Moneymaker
It rains today, and is in the 40s. My daffodils and I are staying inside.
Orangery
Mountain Dragon
MoneymakerIt rains today, and is in the 40s. My daffodils and I are staying inside.
3.25.11
What do you think? More of my art photo experiments. Almost quilt-like, right? The bird is a fat little robin spotted Florida not long ago. There was a huge flock of them that day. I will try to clean up some photos for you to enjoy. I did not turn them all into art shots!
Do you see the profile of the woman's face? The bird is like a little hair-barrette. Her jaw and chin are made by the branch that is almost parallel to the bottom of the picture. Her face points to the left. Do you see it?
3.24.11
I am not really here right now. I am taking my first Peyote Beading class and my first Intermediate I basketry class. It is a full day out for me. See you tomorrow.
3.23.11
I used to have a set of wicker doll furniture. I think they were more traditionally wicker, willow maybe, but I do not really remember. This set is made of the same basketry cane I use when making baskets. I bought it when I was making dolls a few years back. After looking it over again, I bet I could make some more--different styles maybe. Maybe even some more in the Heywood style like this?
Wow. Maybe I would not start with this one...
3.22.11
Here is the bottom of the Tennessee basket. I show it to you because it shows the open weave design that the next basket had.
I retro-fitted this with a sturdier bottom so it can really be used as the market basket is was designed to be.
Here it is drying on the porch after its a maple finish. It took four days to dry. I will not be doing any more basket finishes until we have a long stretch of warm, dry weather.
3.21.11
This is the finished basket from my first Nantucket class--my birthday gift.
Below is a Tennessee biscuit basket. At least, that is what I THINK my teacher called it. The handles are wrought by a blacksmith. There are smithing classes nearby and as much as I would like to learn, I don't think I have the arm, neck, and back strength to learn.
3.20.11
Below are three kinds of daffodils:
I also planted the sets of tulips marked yellow/orange. I wonder what color they will bloom?
And of course, my kitchen herbs: chives, parsley, and basil. All of these were planted March 14 and photographed the same day. Pretty soon it will be time to do some comparison photos.
Update: 3/19/20: We are house sitting and just before I left my plants yesterday, one of the tulips showed two blooms! We return tomorrow and I expect to see my first tulip blooms of spring! I wonder if they will be orange-yellow, or if some kids had fun changing the tags around ...
Orangery, Money Maker, and Mountain Dragon
I also planted the sets of tulips marked yellow/orange. I wonder what color they will bloom?
And of course, my kitchen herbs: chives, parsley, and basil. All of these were planted March 14 and photographed the same day. Pretty soon it will be time to do some comparison photos.
Update: 3/19/20: We are house sitting and just before I left my plants yesterday, one of the tulips showed two blooms! We return tomorrow and I expect to see my first tulip blooms of spring! I wonder if they will be orange-yellow, or if some kids had fun changing the tags around ...
3.19.11
My son studies photography and has worked on various artistic editing. One he calls lomography--Simulating "the effects of a lomo camera. Photos taken with a lomo camera have high contrast, twisted colors, and a noticabe vignette."
I wonder if that is supposed to be NOTICABLE.
If you want to know more, click the link and scroll to the bottom to read about it.
3.18.11
I LOVE Dream in Color Classy Yarn. I have these colors: Pansy Go Lightly, In Vino Veritas, and Chinatown Apple.
If you know me at all, you know I started with Pansy. Or, maybe you looked at the pictures.Great socks, worsted weight wool, Lantern Moon needles, what more could anyone want?
3.17.11
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| Oxalis debilis |
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| or, shamrocks! |
Happy St. Patrick's Day. Here are two little fellows I made a little while back.
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3.15.11
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| Oh, dear. Late again with the blog entry. Azaleas photographed in February in Florida. |
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| It rains here but even wet, the living, growing things look hopeful. |
3.14.11
We have had three days of beautiful weather. We even had the windows open Friday. We have new cushions for our porch furniture and some new plants to usher SPRING into our household. Until I get some new plant pictures, have a look at some of these. I took them in Florida in February. It is wonderful to imagine a world that can go from this
to this
in a matter of days. Actually, these two photographs came from the same garden on the same day. Seasons overlap in some places.
3.11.11
MOUSECAPADES con't
"Did you find the hole they were using to get in?"
He shows me a quarter-sized circle using his thumb and forefinger. Manufacturing holes for cables and such to pass through. Later, I go to the car to retrieve knitting from the glove box.(Surely it was safe THERE) As I grab it from the compartment, it does not come out easily. An end from the ball I was using seems to be stuck. I pull and pull until about 3 yards are unreeled. It seems to have been stuck behind the glove box.
It pops free. Nine feet of blue yarn, my very best Lantern Moon needles (unscathed, thank you) and about 3 inches of work and I go into the house. The polite little creatures, what ever they are, carefully detached the working yarn, leaving a 4 inch tail for me to weave in. The knitting itself is undisturbed and aside from the trail from the working ball of yarn, everything looks like normal knitting.
"Did you find the hole they were using to get in?"
He shows me a quarter-sized circle using his thumb and forefinger. Manufacturing holes for cables and such to pass through. Later, I go to the car to retrieve knitting from the glove box.(Surely it was safe THERE) As I grab it from the compartment, it does not come out easily. An end from the ball I was using seems to be stuck. I pull and pull until about 3 yards are unreeled. It seems to have been stuck behind the glove box.
It pops free. Nine feet of blue yarn, my very best Lantern Moon needles (unscathed, thank you) and about 3 inches of work and I go into the house. The polite little creatures, what ever they are, carefully detached the working yarn, leaving a 4 inch tail for me to weave in. The knitting itself is undisturbed and aside from the trail from the working ball of yarn, everything looks like normal knitting.
3.10.11
MOUSECAPADES
We got in the car the other day and noticed that there was a flare of tiny little Kleenex particles all around the box we keep on the back seat. After some discussion, we concluded it was caused by a mouse but since we were in the dark and had some driving to do before we got out of the car and then some more driving to do before we arrived home, by silent mutual agreement we pretended we had not any idea of how it happened.
After about 5 more miles, I said, "I know what it could have been," I explained how I had switched cars with HMH's husband and he had retrieved Sissy Dog from her house and taken the wee doggy for a ride. "She probably dug around in the Kleenexes while she was riding around in the car." Even while I said that, I knew I had not seen the spate of paper all over the upholstery when we got into the car just twenty minutes earlier.
The next day, my Dearest totally cleaned out the car. In the driveway he pitched out the now-vacant rodent lounge--the contents of the Kleenex box completely shredded. Intermixed were several recognizable pieces of yarn. Blue from my most recent project, emerald from a project I had long ago ripped back, washed, dried and reskeined to await a different inspiration, little bits of purples and pinks from Christmas projects, in short, any knitting I had ever done was chronicled in this lump of tissues.
"Did you see the Kleenex?"
"Yes. Is that the whole box?"
"Pretty much. Did you see the tiny sweaters they knit?"
I had to laugh at that. The next time we got in the car, it was completely free of leaves and sticks, Kleenex and yarn or whatever detritus blows in when the doors are opened or whatever projects or necessities we carry with us. Thoroughly vacuumed, it was ours alone, again. So we thought.
We got in the car the other day and noticed that there was a flare of tiny little Kleenex particles all around the box we keep on the back seat. After some discussion, we concluded it was caused by a mouse but since we were in the dark and had some driving to do before we got out of the car and then some more driving to do before we arrived home, by silent mutual agreement we pretended we had not any idea of how it happened.
After about 5 more miles, I said, "I know what it could have been," I explained how I had switched cars with HMH's husband and he had retrieved Sissy Dog from her house and taken the wee doggy for a ride. "She probably dug around in the Kleenexes while she was riding around in the car." Even while I said that, I knew I had not seen the spate of paper all over the upholstery when we got into the car just twenty minutes earlier.
The next day, my Dearest totally cleaned out the car. In the driveway he pitched out the now-vacant rodent lounge--the contents of the Kleenex box completely shredded. Intermixed were several recognizable pieces of yarn. Blue from my most recent project, emerald from a project I had long ago ripped back, washed, dried and reskeined to await a different inspiration, little bits of purples and pinks from Christmas projects, in short, any knitting I had ever done was chronicled in this lump of tissues.
"Did you see the Kleenex?"
"Yes. Is that the whole box?"
"Pretty much. Did you see the tiny sweaters they knit?"
I had to laugh at that. The next time we got in the car, it was completely free of leaves and sticks, Kleenex and yarn or whatever detritus blows in when the doors are opened or whatever projects or necessities we carry with us. Thoroughly vacuumed, it was ours alone, again. So we thought.
3.9.11
Still have not been to the art exhibit but the studio is 95% under control. I can find the space to do lots of projects. I even have empty baskets and plastic project boxes. It is raining like crazy and there are flood warnings. If we come off this hill, we will go to town but we are just as happy waiting for better weather.
3.8.11
Only accomplished a little housecleaning yesterday. Still have the big trip ahead of us! Hopefully we will see the Tom Haney exhibit at Young Harris College and then make our rounds to the library and the grocery store. The cupboard is bare.
3.5.11
I do not think my primary media is meant to be beading. Not like this, anyway.
While I understand the process for something like this, and I am drawn to the engineering and technique, and I enjoy looking at it, it is not my calling to make one.
I think there is something more structural waiting. Something . . .
I have no current link for this.
I found these images from a website interview from a few years back with bead/jewelry artist Susan Shaw. I was so disappointed to find that she does not have an active etsy storefront, nor any blog I could find. She used to design under the name Yellow Plum. All I found was a company of crappy mass-produced costume jewelry. I hope the two are not related. There IS a water color artist called Susan Shaw. Maybe it is the same one and she found her direction.
I hope to do something like that with my peyote stitch class. Am I getting closer? They look like boxes. Containers...baskets?
3.4.11
He creates automata which are kinetic sculpture with human figural elements. I think I saw his work at the Winter Park Art Festival years ago, probably when he was just starting out. He has a showing at Young Harris College this coming week and I am excited to attend.
Clearly, he found his connection. I still look for mine.
3.3.11
He links the dolls and jewelry making.
Then there are these. beadinhand.comI see the connection for doll/bear/figure making and jewelry. There is a slight connection to the Celtic work via all the fairies, pixies, brownies, leprechauns and enchanted frogs, and dragons I have made. Some of the dolls had baskets and two were even knitting. Still others wore beaded clothing.
I am working toward SOMEthing.
3.2.11
Then there is this, from beadinhand.com
It has a more three dimensional quality. I can see myself wearing something like this. Making something like this.
3.1.11
The connection is right there--just at the edge. I think the knitting goes with this book I just got.
I have always been fascinated by the eternity element in the Celtic Design. I can see how that relates to cable work in knitting. They even relate geographically, and I suspect, historically and therefore culturally. Lately I have been turning around the idea of how cables or Celtic design relate to basketry. Before we moved, I sent a boxfull of basket work to the local charity shop and some of the baskets were my early attempts to connect the woven and fiber aspect with the knotwork and cable design. Wish I had photographed them before I let them go.
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