Do You Frolic?!?

Have you been to Maine? Have you frolicked? Well, BY GEORGE, the Maine Fiber Frolic is THIS weekend in Windsor Maine!

You better get ready for a FIBER and FUN filled weekend! Two days of great food, workshops galore, used equipment, fiberlicious vendors and FIBER FIBER FIBER!

I'll be up there with a few thousand of my best friends, enjoying a fiber spectacular. I'm teaching Silk Painting and Needle Felting and hoping to get out and enjoy the offerings that make life worth living.  I'll be keeping my eye out for a unique piece of equipment to add to the pile at the studio and hoping to meet some new friends while I'm at it.

Don't miss out! This only comes about once a year and the time is ripe. You don't want to just hear about the fun we had, come and make it real.
Here's the link to the workshop page:

http://www.fiberfrolic.com/workshops.shtml

We'll be there from 9 to 4 both days and having more fun that a pig in shaded mud!

I guarantee it.
Yessuh!

Miss Mouse Comes to Call. Sunday.

Silk Painting a Scarf. Saturday.

Just a Lump of Clay

Another drizzly, cool day here in the Mount Washington valley. I love these quiet days, sitting peacefully watching the birds dodge the raindrops as they go about their birdy business.

The quiet helps me to concentrate on my work. I imagine the future of each lump of clay that I am working. I get to decide what it will become what it will inevitably be. A cup? A bowl? Or something else.

Using slow, methodical movements, I coax the wet, plastic earth into pleasing, graceful shapes that someday will be held, used and enjoyed by someone next door or maybe on the other side of the planet.

My pottery ships all over the world and I wonder what the lives of those people are like. How do they go about their days and are they enjoying my pottery? I would love a glimpse into their routine to see if they are just regular folk, like me.

I often see my pottery in the homes of friends and neighbors and it is a humbling experience. To know the work of my hands is a valued part of someone’s daily life, fills my heart with incredible joy and humility.  Because I strive to create pieces that speak of joy and grace to the heart of the user. This is my goal, you see, to bring a smile to their lips as they sip their coffee, reflect upon the vagaries of life and watch the birds flutter past, dodging raindrops, on their way about their birdy business.

My New Coloring Book!

It is DONE and looks amazing! My coloring book is available on Amazon.com!
So great.https://www.amazon.com/Dances-Wools-fantasy-original-coloring/dp/0692740414/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478710747&sr=1-1&keywords=dances+with+wools

So, after loads of hard work (not really really hard but you know, just intense) my COLORING BOOK (!!!) is almost ready for release. I found one more, tiny typo and being OCD, I HAVE to fix it. This is the "drudge" part of publishing, I'm sorry to say. But it has to be done and hopefully in a week or so I will have the finished books in hand and they will be available on Amazon.com! WOOT

SNOW! AAACK!

We have had the mildest and most snow free December that I have ever witnessed here in SouthWestern Maine. But, today, December 29, that winning streak has ended.
I did not cry, I did not pout, I did not dance or act happy, either. It is just the first of a winter's full of white crappola that will plague us until May. Oh well, it was nice pretending that we would have a warmish, snow free winter, sigh.

Yay! My last big show of the year is DONE! I have been enjoying the newfound extra time by spinning. I got the spinning bug last summer but couldn't indulg, self discipline and all that. But NOW...
These crisp fall days and cold nights are spurring me on to spin more and more. When I get a pile of skeins I'm going to be knitting fingerless gloves, hats, neck warmers, etc. I'll keep you posted. #spinningwool

SOLD

One of my newest pieces...This will make a lovely addition to your collection or serve as a stand alone piece.



"King of Mice" $125.00 shipping included.

This lovely hand-made pin cozy is so darling I'm not sure how to even start. The whole idea of creating something from something else has taken over my whole head. I have been scouring antique stores etc looking for bases for these little works of whimsy. This little guy started with wool scraps and became king of the mice. Since making him so high and mighty I have found some delightful items with which to start some future pieces. But for now, he is a stand alone mouse.

King of Mice is listed here and will go to the one who loves him best. Lovely as a helper in the sewing room. Incredible as a delightful delight. And welcomed far and wide as a gift for any occasion.

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