I'll Admit....

I am a sucker for a cute picture! This one covers all the cute bases, too!

Port Townsend Sunday

Port Townsend on Sundays, a way to begin a new week and end an old one with journal entries of new drawings. I like Self Portrait Fridays and now comes Port Townsend Sundays. Next I will have to have a France day or Italian evening!

These are drawings in what I have come to affectionately call my " television sketchbook " or what I am working on while my mind kind of pays attention to a television show!

Loving Color

Well, it certainly is fun to fool around with the camera built into my computer. I can do a self portrait for Self Portrait Friday and never touch a tube of paint or a colored pencil. What would artists from the past 200 years think of that?

I am getting used to photographing myself and in this act of taking pictures, I am accepting me and being gentle as I realize that I am what is before the camera. Just me.

Stuff Happens!

From a tiny window crack grew enough broken glass to take out three big display windows! It looks as if Port Townsend is expecting a hurricane rather than the east coast but this is the view of the front of my shop with boarded up window slots minus the windows! It was not vandalism or an act of nature but rather time itself and a lot of wood rot that caused the windows to break! I am trying to remind myself of how nice new windows will look after their installation on Tuesday. Given lemons one needs to make lemonade!



These are what my front window displays look like on higher stools with their new plywood background. I know it is just temporary until the new glass arrives but it is challenging to merchandise around the boarded up windows. I am such a maniac for display that even something like broken windows makes my display juices begin to flow!

Felted Pot Of Plants

This is another of my felted and embroidered pieces. Enjoyment, pure and simple is what this type of work brings me plus I get to use some of the embroidery stitches I learned as a child.I really have not done much with embroidery since I switched to needlepoint in college. I always do my own designs and think of them as extensions of my drawing and paintings. This is once again all wool.


On another note, the house is quiet with Jacob returning to school - now in 8th grade! Time flies!

Happy Anniversary!

Sixteen years has flown by and today we are celebrating our wedding anniversary. These are the lovely flowers Phil gave me for this 16th year. He chose the flowers himself in all the colors he knew that I would like. Fiery oranges and corals, buttery yellows. orchid pinks, fuschia reds and green. I think they are exquisite and such a treat and absolute delight, to have fresh flowers on my desk at the shop.

This is the little card from Jacob he made for our anniversary. It was part of a treasure hunt of " clues " he created to lead us to a dance in the living room and a breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast.

Busy, Busy Bustling Hustling Girl

I have been on an around the clock busy schedule these days with working in the shop 4 or five days at a time and then hopping into the studio to create inventory and then wrapping up the day in the office placing orders and doing bookwork. I am reminding myself to breathe, to move at a slower more leisurely pace but as summer winds down and turns into the fall' s stretch of quiet creative afternoons, I am thankful that I still love what I do.

This picture is from another blog and I had to re post it; I just love sunflowers!


I am calling this piece done. I can not think of one more stitch or swatch or embellishment that I want to add. I will take it to the frame shop tomorrow on my way to work. The round wool shapes make me think of balloons and the whole village, plants and water scene makes me happy. I forget sometimes how much I enjoy stitching and embroidering. As long as my fingers let me, I will keep at it. I like these fabric pictures and I already have the next design circulating or percolating in my head.