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spa day
Late in the week we did waxing and bleaching -- not on ourselves but on fabric. I had the idea that working with wax would be complicated and hard. But this was fun and easy because it used soy wax. I...
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may be an entrance to another.I've been sad this weekend. I’ve realized that a friendship that once meant a great deal has ended and that we’ve grown apart in ways that probably preclude coming...
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and then we set it on fire
I know what you're thinking -- isn't Dorothy Caldwell renowned for her embroidery? Yes. Deservedly so. I'll get to that.The supply list asked for some odd things -- a hammer and a large nail, a candle...
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lessons learned
Rather than give away Dorothy’s entire syllabus, I think will conclude this class notes series with her blind stitching exercise. This is not sewing nearly, or wholly, invisible stitches but rather...
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You say you had a resolution?
Well, you know . . . resolution, shmesolution. As a New Year’s resolution this year I decided that I would call a moratorium on class-taking. That lasted all the way to May 1st. My latest exercise in...
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make it new
Stella explores Formalism.S: Minimalism. It's too hot to be formal.M: Sorry. I always confuse them. S: Go back to chapter four. And while you're up, could you make some more ice . . .? I feel like I'm...
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scared myself
Back in May, in an exercise in Dorothy Caldwell's class, we each made a b-i-g painting. I liked mine so much that I had it framed. (There's a bit of glare on the glass.) I have, in general, fallen hard...
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"Better get under cover, Sylvester. There's a storm blowin' up - a whopper, to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry." (Name the film. Anyone?)All along the East Coast, newscasters, seemingly...
View Articlenotes from the mainland*
So far, so good. 10:30 a.m. on primary hurricane, now tropical storm, hit day and I have not lost water or power. The trees in the park across the street are still upright. The dogwood that I kept when...
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Errands. If the roads to lower Westchester County are passable.Where I am in the northeast Bronx, you would never know there had a been such a fierce storm only two days ago. Or any storm, really.I...
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IX XI MMI
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at an uncharacteristically early hour for me, I went to the Amtrak station in New Rochelle and got on a train headed for Washington D.C. where I expected to spend a...
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pen and brush
September is turning up as a productive time. For my one-a-days, somewhat in imitation of Agnes Martin's grids, I started doing these close-spaced lines with some open spaces. each 4 inches x 6...
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sightings
I went up to the Mahopac library today to see, at almost the last possible moment, the annual exhibition from Fiber Art Northeast. Norma Schlager has posted some of her favorites from the show on her...
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i've been away from you a long time
and undergoing more than my usual pre-holiday, holiday, and post-holiday gloom and ruminations. But I have been making things and decisions and such. One decision is to take up the blog again. So here...
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show time
Inspired by the Infinite Variety show at the Armory (March 2011), my guild is doing a red and white challenge for our annual show in May. I hadn't intended doing a button sampler when I started, but...
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on guard
I'm beginning to understand Jeanne Williamson's fascination with orange construction fencing. I'm getting some mileage out of some broken bits I unearthed while cleaning.Guardians 4 ink and gouache on...
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resolutions
One of my goals for 2012 is To Get Out More. Since I rarely leave the house, I could hardly get out less, so this should be relatively easy to accomplish.Last week, while in Delaware to see my family,...
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ms. cogito
S: I've been thinking.M: What about?S: I've been thinking about getting back into my art.M: And you're going to start by getting onto my art?S: What?S: Oh. I can't find my paper.M: If it had teeth it...
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economies of scale
Last year, whilst doing my almost-one-a-day projects, I did some line drawings that I liked. I wanted to try them in a much larger scale so I made some studies in a more intermediate size.Originally,...
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cleared the bench
I had a bench-clearing day in the studio on Tuesday. There were things pending for the guild show.The red & white button sampler: 12 x 18 inchesAndMy piece for the art quilters'...
View Articlenow, where was I?
Been a long time.Let's see, it's late 2012 and as the Cowardly Lion might observe, "unusual weather we're having." September, tornado watch; October, hurricane; November, snowstorm (ish) then...
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Interim
I have always loved this week between Christmas and New Year's. For me, it is as though time itself takes a holiday, as though the year ends with the culmination of the giddy, frenzied run-up to all...
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I watched a couple of Christmas specials and that got me to thinking. . . there are so many songs for the various religiously derived holidays, but there are very few for the very secular New Year's....
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working
A number of things have been percolating along agreeably from winter into spring. I picked up a class at the Hudson Valley Writers Center in Sleepy Hollow. I had forgotten how much I love teaching....
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Denial is no longer an option.
It's official. I'm a Crazy Cat Lady.This is Bosco. I found him when he was two days old. It was Mother's Day. Really.2 or 3 days old. Maybe 4 by the time I found the camera.I wasn't sure how to care...
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