August 28, 2014

Finishing Up Summer

We are at the end of August and the beginning of another school year...the garden is pretty well exhausted and seed pods are busting open. Vacation is over and I feel like I am finishing up summer. 
My talented daughter Alice painted this for me after we returned home from a week at the ocean. I have placed it so it is the first thing I see when I wake up.  I miss the ocean...I miss it deeply...
Finished up "From Where I Stand" so that I can get to work on this year's Christmas designs.  I thought this was a fitting final piece for the summer...
 
I know that as soon as the cool air starts cutting through morning coffee hour that I will be charged and eager for Autumn and stew, sweaters and getting new bulbs tucked into the garden. Until then, I am still drinking in the sunshine and zinnias!
 
 

August 5, 2014

Picture Treats

One of my latest treasure finds is a book published in 1958 about a topic I care a lot about....
I am amazed by how packed full of really intriguing art this book is. 
The artists are not listed beneath the pieces but there is a list in the front of the book...Barrington Barber, Raymond Briggs, Patricia Morris, Alan Stewart, Peter Sullivan, Justin Todd. This is only a small sample...every page is brimming and truly unique.  Pick it up if you can find it!
 
On another note, I am still laboring away on "I Dream of Heaven"...
Giving a salute to the tools of the trade...
Not all of us are interested in working though...