Big progress on the new window

Jo stopped by to help out.


They're getting the header into position.


Jerry did all the new framing for the window today, lot's of work! There's a lot of previous termite damage in the wall.


Enough work, it's way past cocktail hour.

Dear C&O park service

It is very curious to me that this would be more interesting than cattails and the other wetland plants that were growing here just days ago.

Close up of area.

Some of the cattails and lillys that remain.

Studio Garden

This is my most wonderful surprise. I thought I was getting a deep red gladiola, but this most amazing deep purple has bloomed. I love it.


The 17 year old cat. He has decide to eschew bathing and since he is the King he does as he pleases and that's okay.

p.s. Brunswick has been getting some press recognizing some of the creative people who live here.

The beginning of the next phase of renovation

We rescued this wonderful window with a central picture window flanked by casement windows. It will become the dinning room window looking out on the grotto garden.

The before view, with the almost finished bump out with french doors.

Getting started by removing siding (revealing cedar shingles) to make the cut for the larger window.

Chesapeake Bay 6/26/09

A beautiful and peaceful walk after a very sad and surreal funeral.

coffee grounds

One year of putting coffee grounds at the base of the hydrangea to make it blue didn't really work. However, they've shifted to a more brilliant pink.

lot's of great salads this year

making pot holders

Brunswick's first Garden Tour

My studio garden will be on the garden tour. It's only taken me 24 years to get it looking okay. I am very grateful for who ever dreamt this up and made it happen, it's a great idea and I really hope it goes well and gets bigger every year.

please email me to RSVP

Check out this story!

in the garden

These photos are from Jerry's and my garden, going into it's 3rd season and looking good. I am taking care of 3 gardens this wonderful cool rainy spring.

Art in Brunswick

"Rain" 10" x 14" $150
"Bloom" 10" x 14" $200 SOLD
"Dreams of Plans to Come" 12" x 16" $300
all three are acrylic paint on linen, unframed

These paintings will be on view at Sundance Art & Framing, 18W. Potomac St, Brunswick Md, May through June. An openning reception will be held on May 1st, 2009, 6-9 pm to meet the Artists.

Seattle city scape

Seattle trip

The week we were there it rained a lot. It was different than the east, the light was always changing and the rain never stopped us from going outside.

The Glass Museum, Tacoma Washington

Our trip last week to Tacoma/Seattle was quiet wonderful. Tacoma, which I had never been to, was such as surprise, a wonderful town and this is what greets you if you arrive like we did on the city bus.

Waste Not Expo

I will be a vendor at this event selling pot holders and bags made with recycled fabrics.

"The Marriage"

Well it's done with the exception of a a little tweaking. Yesterday, I had to tear out the lower left corner, a very time consuming stitch to make and also to tear out! Quite frustrating as I was so close to being done yesterday and the work to get ready for handmade shows this week end and next is really pressing on me.

Progression VI

Progression V

If your wondering why there are no new bags in my Etsy shop it's because I've been working like crazy to finish this piece asap. More on that later. I think maybe a day or two more and it will be done. Today I am calling it The Marriage, however it's had a few other names ...maybe more on that later, too.

Progression IV

This photo certainly does not do justice. Basically, I feel all the work so far has set the stage something to happen.

Progression III

I am really liking how this piece is going. it's not out of the woods yet, we'll see what happens next.

Lots of Pot Holders

Mostly making pot holders this week.

Late February early March Bloom

Progression II

This week has been all hand stitching of glass seed beads.

A Commission Bag that Matches the Day

Yesterday, we caught the perfect sunny warm day with no wind to plant seeds; leeks. radishes, scallions and lots of beets. To day it looks like rain and the wind is back, how perfect.

Sun Set

Farm/ Destruction

A Sunday Walk in Wicked Cold Wind

This is Hope Farm, transitioning into a huge housing development. We hadn't taken this walk/hike since last summer. Even though things are progressing slowly, a lot has changed since we were here last. This was the least effect view I saw all afternoon.

Progression

This piece just turned on it's side from what I thought it would be and I got an image in my head of where it's going.

Studio Tools

Moon over Harper's Ferry WVA

Rat Packers Dream

This very secure bag is great for a mid size load that you don't need to access often. On the back exterior of the bag are the quick access pockets, one for cell phone with a snap closure and a 6" wide slip pocket, great for metro card..etc, and a D-ring for securing keys.

Hand Stitching

I love hand stitching, I spend a lot of time here in the studio, it's very centering. Philip Glass is playing in the back ground, as he often is, repetition, your hearing CIRCLES with Arturo Stalteri, pianos.

Just filling space right now. Not sure where it's going image wise, I have some vague ideas, nothing solid, a strong impression of white and a sense of where the action will be.

Bag School

Lap top prototype. Well, I think I nearly broke my machine and my spirit on this one. It is very heavy, distressed, canvas lined with the brilliant idea of felted sweater pieces for padding and water resistance as well as all recycled. I seemed to have made quite a few mathematical errors that needed a lot of redoing in the end. But after all that, I love it and it kept my lap top dry and safe during the recent ice storm. I'll be doing some refining on this one. Oh, and I can't wait to get a heavy duty commercial machine to plow through endless layers of stuff.