Roxanne’s classmate and friend, Z., is very attached to a little stuffed elephant, Ellie, that has been with him since he was a baby.  Four years of constant love and companionship, plus many many washings, had made poor Ellie totally threadbare.  You could literally see the stuffing through his body and he was falling apart… 

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We walked into town this morning and sat on the grass and watched the Boston Marathon. One of the few things I love about living in the Wellesley is our proximity to the half-way point of the Marathon.  The fighter jets fly right over our neighborhood and in the years when it is good weather,… 

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Passover is fast approaching and I’ve been cooking and cooking these last two days, with another day in the kitchen ahead of me.  On the Seder menu this year: -Hard Boiled Eggs-Haroset (I’m making that tomorrow)-Gefilte Fish with Homemade Horseradish (I didn’t make the gefilte fish this year, but I did last year and I… 

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Let’s see.  The Joseph coat came together really nicely and I presented it to Roxanne’s class today.  I showed them the pattern I made from a big sheet of newsprint and then did a little hand sewing demonstration with two leftover scraps of the fabric they had made. And then I pulled out the finished… 

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I was really inspired by the 2nd Annual Softie Awards, especially when Therese put up the elephant tribute category.  I have always liked making elephants and there have been various iterations in the past few years, but I thought I’d take up the challenge and make a brand new one.  This white elephant is made… 

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Some research (these are pages from Sibley’s Guide to Birds). Some sketching. Much pattern drafting. Many a gusset and many a dart. A wire armature through the neck and some fishing weights in the body. And a swan. My endurance is building.  It took me a week of steady work to make this. It feels… 

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Hooray!  My website went live this morning and I am so thrilled with it.  Kim did an awesome job keeping it simple and modern and easy to navigate.  I hope you like it as much as I do.

"Feather Your Nest" opens this Friday, April 4, at Paper Boat in Milwaukee, WI.  I will have these ten pieces in the show and the amazing Amy Rice will have so many beautiful paintings up, too.  The opening party will be on April 18 if you live near Milwaukee.  I know Amy will be there… 

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A sketch. A prototype. And a penguin looking hopefully down at his egg.

We are all afflicted with a stomach bug right now – actually everybody except Roxanne.  I’m really hoping she’ll avoid this one, but it seems awfully contagious.  Poor little Stella has had a rough go of it – so much puking and so much dirty laundry.  I’m hoping we’ll all be on the mend by… 

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