A lazy Sunday Morning

Jacob and Phil have gone to the animal shelter to do their volunteer work and I have the house to myself! Mmmm ... quiet, spacious, wonderful empty house. Just the sweet soft snoring of the dog is keeping me company. I have read BOTH Sunday papers from front to back and watched the CBS Sunday Morning show with Charles Osgood. The day is partly cloudy and a bit warmish so I am not particularly inspired to get up and about. I do need to pack for the Sew Expo show in Puyallup this coming weekend. I have some fabulous bead and fiber treasures to take and display. I am just not terribly motivated to spend the day in the warehouse. I'd rather play int the studio. Anyway, if I get my get along together; I will add a photo or two later today. Till then - enjoy this day! Lois

Some nights....

I remember when I was in college that one of my drawing instructors in particular told me to stop being so illustrated in my work. I think she was trying to say that I should be freer in my drawing and that the finished piece would be more successful. Now that I am older I tend to draw things that make me happy and then I load the piece with tons of texture. I know that I am enjoying the process more and the end results make me smile. I still fling paints and medium around though and end up with my very abstract, intuitive work but in the end I like drawing fish, suns, flowers, spirals and houses. This piece is a PT kind of drawing I have just begun featuring our local sailboats and big green fish. I think it will be fun when done! Maybe it would make a good wooden boat festival poster! I am staying up much too late! xxoo, Lois

Odds and Ends Around Here!

The sun was out today and once again it was easy to delight in the beauty of this place. We had lunch at Point Hudson and watched the boats bob in the marina. It's not going to last though as rain is forcast.

Here is a really neat bottle tree on a farm in Sequim. I love these trees that pop up in fields every now and again. It's like finding a Christmas tree! The sun through the bottles is like lights on the Christmas tree. What a handy recycling idea,too! I think we need to build a bottle tree or 7 this summer!

I have also included a weird shot of the lunar eclipse last night. It was a special request of Andrea who is in the cold midwest. That liitle swirl is probably the result of my poor photography skills but I like to thinkof it as spirits around the eclipsing moon. Of course, Jacob and I went out and did a little lunar dance and howled a few times!

This Beautiful Child !

This beautiful girl at Christmas time is my granddaughter, Maia Rose. She is 5 and I think she looks just like me! Everyone here thinks she looks just like my grade school pictures too, but Michael, her father, says she is the image of him! I guess it is all in the eye of the beholder.
It is an absolutely stunningly, achingly gorgeous day here in Port Townsend. The sun, that strange missing orb in the sky is out and very bright! We north westerners will be wearing sunglasses and shorts today and heading for the beach or the mountains. It is also supposed to be 50 degrees so all the bugs will be out and the bulbs pushing above the dirt in the garden. I am going to contrive excuses today to be outside at the shop! I am sure the sidewalks and planters need attention. Have a great day - xxoo Lois

Happy Valentine's Day!

What a day for love and chocolates! My guys gifted me with chocolate covered raisins from the local candy shop and Jacob loaded me up with Hershey's kisses! Plus, Jacob actually consented to be kissed more than once mainly because I gave him the DVD of Mouse Hunt with Nathan Lane. Now that is a funny, slapstick movie. Perfect for boys! More on this day of LOVE later! Lois

Happy Valentine's Day!

A Glorious Day !

Waking this morning to a layer of frost and thin ice, what we call pancake ice, on all the water puddles; we decided to drive to Sequim and do a little shopping. The sun was out and the temperature quickly rose to 46 degrees so we headed down to the " spit " by the Three Crabs restaurant to look at the birds. We saw two bald eagles fishing, seagulls, brant, geese and lots of ducks. There was even a pot-pie in the water where seals have pushed up the fish to the water's surface and the birds all head there and feast on the fish. They are noisy and ambitious and moving, seeming like clowns on the water. It's a sight to see and while they are eating like this, they even ignore the eagles. It was beautiful on the water! Sunny, a breeze over my right shoulder and a definate chill in the air. The kind of day where all seems right with the world and you are happy to be alive! So what if not much work was done at home, office, studio or shop? Everyone needs a day to play and here in the Northwest when the sun is out, you play!!! I did!! And I am a better woman for it! Love, Lois

I'm Home! Yippee!

It feels so good to sleep in my own bed but I had the best time and show EVER in TUCSON. The opening day of the show was my best first day of a show ever and Phil and I worked out our " dance " with each other and had a great time with customers. Everyone that stopped by the booth had nice things to say about my work and it was so neat to meet my on line customers in person, face to face. Judy was a trooper at the show and put up with me and enjoyed all those Baggins sandwiches. thank you to all who stopped by, said hello and made my days brighter. New charms are being drawn up even as I write this and a friend, Janet ( Contemporary Glassworks ) gave me the coolest idea for a series of charms.

I forgot to take my camera to Tucson so I am posting pictures of some of the wonderful treasures I purchased for the shops. A trunk show is in the works and my studio is softly calling me!

Another great discovery in Tucson? Advil PM! Wow - does it work for this achey, tired girl! I'll think of all of you as I play with my new found delights! Love, Lois

p.s. Special thanks to Kathy D for the nut free chocolate chip homemade cookies! Yum! And ... kisses to Whit for all the bagels and cream cheese in the mornings and kudos to Andrea for being such a great neighbor with the most beautiful PMC work and lampworked beads I've ever seen. I can hardly wait until next year!