Thursday, April 12, 2012

Dreamland: wool yarn, rug hooking, and more





I want to get in the car and drive to the country north of us to  Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada to see this store
I've actually been there on the way to P.E.I. 
 
Thank you to my sister for sending me the link . 
She called this Dreamland. 

STITCHING 





   

 Heidi Wulfraat :
Something about me….
I grew up roaming the great expanse that was my father’s photography studio.
His business occupied the basement level of a huge brick building on Monkland Avenue in Montreal. While my father staged backdrops, lighting and composition my mother helped with administrative details in the office. Quite literally, I spent all of my preschool days absorbing the open space, the creative air and the entrepreneurial work ethic that played out in front of me.

Home was on the West Island of Montreal, seemingly far from the fast paced inner core.
The, then rural, edge of suburbia provided the great outdoors, gardens and animals, animals, animals. Cats always, dogs often, a never ending parade of orphaned birds, as well as rabbits, frogs, salamanders and so on.
Textiles were prevalent as well. With a European heritage my brothers, my sister and I were all trained in needle tapestry. All the while my live-in grandmother was occupied in the creation of extraordinary embroidery work, that with which she had once made a living, providing for herself and her children upon arrival in Canada.
This was the formative mix that eventually led to London-Wul Fibre Arts. Fibre production allowed to me to raise animals in a no-kill no-sell environment, fed my appetite for textiles and provided me the opportunity to once again, spend my days in a studio. My studio!



ART







Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The Next Wedding


Sometimes when days are being lived, you can't  see closely what is going on.  I do know that TWO of my sons have weddings within 3 months and 13 days  of each other. I do but tonight  it hit me. A big REALLY as the days are coming closer to this June wedding. 

We are heading up to see the wedding places which are  tucked up in the NC mountains. This is the place where #3 son met his fiance and finished college last May. Here are some photos from a recent bridal shower for that bride to be:

                 My sister always does these fun and personal cards.
                      I always do a photo card of my son when he was young. 


  Bridesmaids in June ..... Bride in the middle and my Emma on the right
                   
                                                             Bride and her mom


                             My sister-in-law, niece  and Emma
                                              The engaged couple

                              

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Monday, April 9, 2012

Time on the internet

Steve Jobs certainly changed the world. 

Now I am pinning on Pinterest, thinking  about what to write on my blog, my students have a blog ,  catching up on Facebook, favorites on twitter, and then emails. 

I did read two books over Spring Break: 







Saturday, April 7, 2012

The Tears of Christ







From John 11 ~~ Jesus Wept. 


Makoto Fujimura's The Tears of Christ and a short 
article by the artist here.  


He is risen. 
Hallelujah~

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The Artist



Silent movie , almost.
Second time viewing it today
Makes your brain work. 
Not very many quotes ~~ aha.