easy come, easy go

I'm still enjoying making necklaces. But . . .  as for the "volunteer" pumpkin, when we returned home after being out of town for a couple of days, we found it being devoured by squirrels. There is now a large round hole and the seeds have spilled out into the driveway. Since the squirrels probably carried the seed there in the first place (we didn't plant any pumpkin seeds), I guess the pumpkin belonged to them anyway.

between the lines

A small work in progress using some of the fabrics simmered with avocado peels and pits and some bits of  lace soaked in a blueberry and coffee concoction.

This may be a truer representation of the colors.

A piece from last weekend's bracelet making marathon.

What today looks like.

looking at gates

These were the gates to the cemetery in Springfield.

 

I really love old iron work.

Yesterday I came across this quote, which I believe is attributed to Kenneth Cole:

"IT'S AMAZING WHAT

YOU FIND IF YOU LOOK

IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION."

faces

of angels.

Doesn't it look like this one has a tear?

My husband discovered this cemetery near our hotel in Springfield, MA. He was fascinated by the dates on the tombstones.

pumpkin progress

Our volunteer pumpkin is still growing, rather riskily at the edge of the driveway where it's amazing (and wonderful) that it hasn't been run over by a car or smushed by basketballs.

It's getting bigger and now turning orange. 

soft stitching

using

what used to be

two linen skirts
and
a pair of silk trousers

a perfect fall day

included going for a drive and ending up at the Hawley Art & Craft Fair

where I met Bernice Craft (DaleBCraft) and admired her lovely handcrafted beaded jewelry.
My photos don't do her justice, click to enlarge them and take a look at her etsy shop!

trying to continue

to create during this time.

I made the necklace last week out on the patio of the hotel, where and while we were waiting.  It consists of some chain, some wire-wrapped beads and an Industrial Chic element that is reversible.

Over the weekend I made a small fiber square.

more experiments with stains

Here are some more blueberry and coffee stain results. My plan is to use this as part of an assemblage on another textile wrist cuff.

These two were the results of some slow simmering in a pot of avocado skins and also included a couple of pits.

Next I'm thinking of trying to see what happens using some pieces of sycamore bark that fell from my neighbor's tree onto my front yard.

sleepless

in Massachusetts.

we've since returned from our unplanned tripmollie had to accompany us since there was no room at the doggie inn but we were fortunate enough there was a hotel that would allow her.

the first night she felt compelled to guard us from every sound that could be heard and

none of us slept very well.

the second night there was a fire alarm in the middle of the night.

mollie is glad to be back home where she is sleeping well and we are sleeping as well as can be expected under the circumstances.

will she

inspire me 

to create more necklaces?

to straighten my studio?

I first saw her in an antique shop early in the summer.

I kind of wanted her.

But her price was a bit high.

Actually it was very high.

so I left her in 

that back corner 

of the room downstairs

in the shop.

but I kept thinking about her

and last week

when I decided to go back

just to see if she might still be there

there she was

out in the yard in front of the shop

waiting to come home with me

and for a much better price.

now 

what to name her

Knowledge Day

In my mind
September 1 is the first day of fall
and
the beginning of a new year
(more so than January 1).


I'm not the only one.


In Russia September 1 is known as Knowledge Day.
the transition from summer to autumn
the first day of school.
there is also a tradition of bringing flowers to the teacher.


since we're all teachers
in one way or another
we should all
have flowers


happy knowledge day!