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I have been exploring and playing with what I can do with needle felting and composition. It has been fun. The birds were a bit of a surprise, but I think there will be more. Everything can be a leaping off point.
I may throw my husband under the bus every once in a while (see previous post) because it is entertaining. Even though I do that and poke fun at him and confound him with references to ‘the contract’, torment him with the disjointed flow of things that pop into my head, the chaos that he…
My dear husband pulled a fast one on me today. The second weekend in November is the annual birthday party for my youngest. It is not her birthday, that happens in the bowels of the Christmas season. I have very little to do with the party. My daughter does the planning, invitation making and delivery,…
I was listening to the Diana Ross and Supremes version of Love Child and it got me thinking about the mind set that leads us to societally to be unforgiving of mistakes. Actually, not just mistakes but various and sundry things that are day to day life that societally we feel the right to judge, persecute,…
I am not a baby person. I have had four of my own and love them to bits but I do not gush exclamation points when I see other babies. I do not feel the need to hold every baby I see, especially seeing as babies are containers in which bodily fluids overflow. It is…
Music is such a subjective thing. My children and I have a running …I guess it is a joke. Where some of them like to booby trap me into listening to music I would rather not hear. I entertain them by my over the top reactions (I think their favourite is me ‘la la la-ing’…
What is it about vacations that as soon as you are home they become a hazy memory? My husband and I are celebrating our twentieth anniversary this year. To mark the occasion we spent several days touring and camping, just the two of us (a very rare occurrence). We discovered we still like each other…
My mom had emergency brain surgery on Friday to remove a tumor. Needless to say the weekend was a bit of a turmoil. Amazingly, she is now home, functioning as her normal self, and is as fine as she is going to be. The beginning of a new journey. I think, no matter what…
Every year I say to myself that I will not over plant and I will not let my garden get beyond me. I do better every year but there always seems to be a point that my garden becomes an entity all its own. It took me several years not to plant too many tomatoes….
I sometimes wonder about the statements artists make about themselves, their process, their images. I was on a fibre artist’s site today and read the statement on her home page. Other than there was a lot of ‘self actualizing’ and flowery words it really didn’t say much about anything. I like to believe that…