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you can only stay in fantasy-land for so long. or so they tell me. shibori week was AMAZING and INTENSE, and i have lots of photos and details to share with you, hopefully tomorrow. while i was immersed in the 50-or-so hour workshop (including homework) [...] we spend a lot of time out here. the nice people at potter craft (my publisher) asked me to write a little story about what i do when i visit the city every month for their monthly newsletter about crafty books, projects and people, CrafterNews. how fun! happily, i complied… i felt like a reporter jotting notes and times as i [...] ok, so remember that forecast i mentioned last week? well, there were a few things noaa left out. like, the part about how the trees would get so laden with heavy wet snow that they would all start to break. and that thousands of breaking limbs and falling trees would invariably knock down myriad power [...] well! here we are in 2010. i am always very optimistic and inspired at the beginning of a new year. i like the excuse to look over what i accomplished in the preceding one, and what i hope to do in the coming one. 2009 was pretty good to me, though it was entirely transitional. [...] HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! as happens every year, the months from september through december were a whirlwind. it is always the busiest time of year for me work-wise, culminating in a flurry of craft fairs and then finally a slothful week or so in ohio, during which i hang out with my family and eat too [...] as of tuesday, i have a home. i (along with mr. smith) am now an official resident of accord, new york. i’m an accordian (i love saying that). and i’m a homeowner. i’ll no longer dread the question “so, where do you live?” which has been so hard to answer for the past 11 months. the [...] i don’t know if i’ve mentioned it before, but my sweetie is a photographer. it completely fascinates me how a good photographer can take a photo of the simplest thing, and it just looks so much better than when i do it. richard sent me this collection of images from a visit to the farm [...] i am enjoying working in my new (albeit temporary) studio here on the farm. it’s what i’ve always dreamed of: a separate building (i.e. not in the house) and the computer is NOT there to distract me. it’s really cute and the perfect size, and i can see ponies and guinea hens and baby squirrels [...] last weekend, in between house-hunting, i went with my friend/realtor jenn to the 1st Annual Gardiner Cupcake Festival. it was a quintessentially perfect country small town celebration; i totally felt like i was in stars hollow! unfortunately i’m too big for a donkey ride, but i had fun eating plenty of cupcakes and checking out [...] |
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