Happy Thanksgiving! If everyone is healthy and well, we will be spending it in Connecticut. Can you feel Christmas’ hot breath on the back of your neck. I sure can. I just don’t want it all to go by too quickly. ‘Stop that Train’ by John Mayer is like my anthem. Speaking of songs, Shari sent me the Glee soundtrack and it is so good! And that’s coming from someone who is anti-musical. I don’t have a credit for the above Illustration, but I love it.
November 25, 2009
November 23, 2009
The weekend was very busy, and I felt like I needed a make-up day this morning. I should be grateful that everyone is at school and I should in theory, be able to get work done. Saturday’s sale was pretty good. I had no real expectations, other than to make my entrance fee and I did better than that. Yesterday I cleaned and caught up on housework and laundry. I had also promised to take Sophia to the library, oh and we needed to go the supermarket. I didn’t sit down until 8:45 pm. The house is now clean but I don’t know if it was worth the work and time, when it is so very fleeting. Several times I mentally and said aloud that I was waving my white flag on the mess and Motherhood. Sigh.
November 21, 2009
I wanted to post earlier in the week, but we have had some computer bugs that involved a lot of troubleshooting. I think we’re now virus-free. In the meantime, I have been getting my work ready for today’s show, here in Wakefield at the Elk’s Club. It is from 1- 5 and the address is 60 Belmont Avenue. I don’t know what kind of turn out it will be, but I’ll be happy if I break even. Last night I was framing and organising. A good thing to do, so now I am in better shape for the RISD holiday sale. If anyone reading this would like me to send them a postcard, with directions and details for the show, just let me know. 
Here are a new flock of birds. I dropped six off at Studio Hop and they sold out in one day!
November 17, 2009
Today I did some holiday themed hearts. I’ll be bringing a new bunch of work to Studio Hop tomorrow. This weekend they celebrate their 9th anniversary and have a sale to boot. I’m looking forward to seeing all the new work. Congratulations Nina! If you are local go and see the shop, 810 Hope Street, Providence, and do go next door to 7 Star’s bakery. I’m already thinking of getting a sticky bun tomorrow.
Love having the extra table space to work on!
November 17, 2009
my magic wand! Yesterday had the perfect conditions for sanding and painting the table and benches from Roger and Rochelle. I love the results and my much neater studio. I’ll keep this short so I can go and up and work in the sunshine there. 
November 16, 2009
The washer and dryer are humming, all the trash cans have been emptied, and the sun is shining. Hooray, a new start to a new week. Yesterday I visited the Morency’s to pick up a table and two benches. I would love to have them in my studio, I just need my magic wand to sand and paint them first. Rochelle had made a yummy dinner and warm apple pie for dessert. When I got home I whipped up a German apple crumb cake, since we had nothing in the way of dessert. I did these two cuttings last night, and now I need to tackle today’s to-do list. Can I mention again, how nice it is to see the sun? If today had been as gloomy as the weekend, no way would I have a spring in my step.
November 15, 2009
with this post. Yes it has been a while. This past week wasn’t very productive. I was in a slump-artwise. Sometimes the work comes together very easily and quickly, and then sometime it doesn’t and it feels impossible to do one sketch, let alone a finished cut. Well today, I had the whole day to work, no driving anyone anywhere, thank you Marc for bringing Fi to swim, no picking anyone up, no errands, I couldn’t loan you an egg at the moment, because we’re all out, but hooray, I got 21 new clips cut and 21 frames filled. I now have just one stack of 10 5 x 7 frames haunting me now.
November 9, 2009
title this post. Here we are at the start of a new week. The sun is shining and everyone is in good health. I have some housework to tackle and three stacks of frames to fill. In the meantime here are some new papercuts that I did on Saturday night. I also sewed the embroidered top to make this pillow for Doreen’s b-day. We celebrated belatedly over thai food and lots of conversation!
November 6, 2009
And now, to the supermarket, the fridge is an echoing cavern of emptiness!
November 6, 2009
That’s the schedule around here! I cut, mounted and framed 10 new pieces today- a goal that was met. I’ll post an image tomorrow. In the meantime, dinner was made, kitchen was cleaned and a pumpkin cake baked, to toot my horn. Some random thoughts; I love that we no longer awaken in total darkness, replacing applesauce for 1/2 the fat really works, the leaves smell so good on my daily walks and wasn’t today’s weather crazy? Sophia and I shared an umbrella on our afternoon stroll with Archie and we saw a rainbow against the slate grey sky. Anyhoo, I’m running out of steam, so I’ll end this here.
