a thing of beauty is not a thing to ignore ~Hot House Flowers The other day I was going through my photos and I saw how many I had collected. They were not just of family and friends but of “things”. Things I was attracted to, found fascinating, found beautiful. Since I have started using […]
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Walking slowly into 2016. I’ve got a new day timer that I can hold in my hands and get inky with. I’ve written in my intentions & goals for 2016 and further broken those down into months, weeks and days. Small and steady steps. But there’s a slight problem with the set-up – a messy desk. To […]
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Produce (verb) → to bring into existence; give rise to; cause I seem to go through several “new year” events. In September it feels like a new year because of the association with the school year (even though I am long beyond going to school I do take classes from time to time). Then there is the […]
read moreI’ve been hammering and shaping copper. Letter by letter I put words on the copper that might inspire or remind. My sister calls them cue words. The first bracelet I tried making I stamped “practice” in both directions. Yes, it was a practice bracelet but also I wanted to remind myself to keep practicing. – […]
read moreI finally got my chapbook together the way I wanted. There were a number of things I had to put in place : – choose the poems, review/edit, put them in some kind of order – decide if I wanted to include any images (yes) – create the images using my photos and then altering […]
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