I’ll Meet You There mixed media collage and soft sculpture 12″ x 24″ (paper ephemera, wood, Guinness bar towel, wire, floral tape) This is the end of the Guinness bar towel. I used every little bit of that thing – the best .25 cents I’ve spent in a long time.  I’m on the search for… 

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"Things With Wings"  opening last night at the Three Graces Gallery, Portsmouth,NH. A bit over two and a half years ago when I started this blog I had just begun to sew in earnest. I was making all sorts of things, but soft toys seemed to be what excited me most.  After sewing for a… 

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"Raptor II (Out on a Limb)mixed media scultpure(Guinness bar towel, muslin, wire, polyfill, floral tape, acrylic paint, Paperclay, scrap wood) When I was packing all the pieces to take to Portsmouth for the show , it was this one that was the hardest to let go. I felt I should make another.  Of course, it… 

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Awesome news today.  Two of my pieces, "Get Ready. Get Set" and "Nest of Thread VI" have been accepted to the juried show, "Ode to Cornell: What Would Joseph Do?" . The judge was Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Cheif Curator of the Peabody Essex Museum and a world renown expert on Cornell. I drove my pieces… 

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These nine pieces will be on exhibit at the Three Graces Gallery in Portsmouth, NH, as part of a group show, "Things With Wings".  The show opens this Friday, Aug. 10 and runs through Sept. 8.  The opening party is this Friday from 5-8 pm.  I hope you’ll come by and say hello if you… 

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                                "disassembled"                        mixed media sculpture(muslin, embroidery floss, yarn, glass mason jar, wooden box) Charlie is frightened by this piece. I think it would be creepy if the doll were a baby.  As she is now, I think being… 

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mixed media collage/ sculpture(rusted sheet metal, bingo chips, wire, flour sack, wood and paper ephemera on oval canvas) I found this piece of rusted sheet metal on our street two weeks ago while on a walk with Stella and another neighborhood mom and her littlest son.  Isn’t it great!  Like a topographical map or the… 

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"Get Ready. Get Set."10" x 8" mixed media sculpture and collage(wood, ephemera, wire, matchbox, nails, flour sack) I like this piece.  The other day I started collaging a rectangular scrap of wood and as it went along it started to look a bit like an urban landscape to me. It wasn’t quite big enough on… 

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"hunger 4 you"mixed media sculpture (linen, wood, wire, glass bead, paper ephemera) A few weeks ago I responded to a post on Craigslist – someone in my neighborhood was giving away a bunch of scraps of wood.  I went over there one evening after putting the kids to bed and got a lot of great… 

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