Nov 14, 2021 | Color Savvy, Creative Juices, Heritage and Healing, Organics, Studio and Place, Uncategorized
My eyes are always wide open to the beauty in nature all around me but last Friday was overload after my eye exam and dilated eyes! Oh my, even with sunglasses, the bright sunshine & colors brightened my spirits and made me squint. Talk about eyes wide open. In...
Mar 1, 2021 | Fiber Wise, Industry Insider, Organics
The recent freeze across the country brings to mind a timely story I have been waiting to post. Also, today is the one-year anniversary of my self-commitment to write and share my thoughts regularly on this site with you. Thank you for joining me and supporting my...
Nov 25, 2020 | Fashion as Art, Fiber Wise, Heritage and Healing, Organics, Tactile Art: fiber and forms
I wrote the following little story 5 years ago. It still warms true in my heart each Thanksgiving so I am sharing it once more. I have updated the words and photos to help you enjoy it with more delightful detail. (Previous post: Grateful Harvest 2015) Traditionally,...
Oct 31, 2020 | Creative Juices, Heritage and Healing, Maker and Mentor, Organics
You are going to have to wait for my prose When Not Enough is Enough and Fairy Fashion Mountain Camp for now. I’m wrestling with the value of timing and whether it matters. For now, I think it does. I have been trying to post/communicate with you since...
Jul 18, 2020 | Fiber Wise, Heritage and Healing, Organics, Studio and Place
The word Garden, itself, brings solace. It speaks known pleasure from fullness, sensuous dollops of color, flitting birds, busy butterflies & bees, movement in a breeze, perhaps a welcoming pathway or water sound, earth, grounding, thirsty land or moist...
Mar 31, 2020 | Heritage and Healing, Organics, Studio and Place
This phrase is now lodged in our consciousness. Here we are. Put in our place. I wrote the little piece that follows, Finding my Place, a long while back (and didn’t post it for reasons explained in my previous Phento post ;/ Timing???….) I remembered it...