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Happy Fourth of July!

July 4, 2009

Have a great day.

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The Chickens Arrived

June 29, 2009

This truck pulled up at 7 pm And a very nice guy from the farm unloaded two beautiful chickens and a homemade coop.  Roxanne inspected them in her nightgown. We got some instructions on how to feed them and make them comfortable and then we just celebrated the arrival of our guests.  They'll be with… 

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chicken camp

June 25, 2009

First, a new Springtime bird is up in the shop today. And also it looks like we will be borrowing two chickens from Land's Sake, our CSA farm, for two weeks.  They will arrive on Monday evening in their own coop and they will live in our backyard.  I called our neighbor this morning to… 

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artist profile in Cloth Paper Scissors

June 14, 2009

I'm very excited today because I just got my July/August issue of Cloth Paper Scissors and I am featured as the Artist Profile this month!  See the little reference on the front?  There is a five page spread inside. This is the first page. The author of the article, Cate Prato, was great to talk… 

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patchwork elephant

June 9, 2009

Yesterday and today I worked on a patchwork elephant. This was one of those projects that began while sifting through big piles of fabric.  All my cotton fabrics are sorted by color in six plastic bins in our bedroom.  Bins are great because I keep even very small pieces that cannot be neatly folded on… 

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first strawberries

June 4, 2009

Our first CSA pick-up of the summer at Land's Sake in Weston was so wonderful. (Yes, Stella is wearing a bikini top. She insisted she was too hot, even though she was wearing a cotton tank top, and that was all that I could find in the diaper bag. And we went to the playground… 

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colors

June 3, 2009

I love the color combination on this bird – hot pink, yellow and grey.  So great together.  I hope you like her, too.  She is up in my shop now. Our first CSA pick-up of the season is this afternoon. It is sunny and warm here and I can't wait to get back to the… 

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My House is Famous! and a Springtime Bird

June 2, 2009

My house is on the Cookie magazine blog today!  We had a lot of fun photographing the rooms in our house and explaining where all the artwork and mid-century furniture came from.  I almost never show my house here so if you are interested, check it out!   And another Springtime bird is in the… 

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Food Processor Bread – make it today!

May 31, 2009

I was introduced to food processor bread over the winter by Jennifer Judd-McGee who, if you didn't already know, is a very talented artist and a very kind person, too.  Jennifer – thank you!  This has got to be the easiest homemade bread recipe known to man and it is so good. I think it… 

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lion

May 28, 2009

A little lion today mounted on a chubby butter-yellow canvas. He's in the shop.

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