Busy Spring!

Much has happened since my last post! As usual! The spring was beautiful around the farm!

The daffies were beautiful, followed by perky purple allium, baby chicks do their chicken thing,

and the bees whirling around the posies!

While Spring was doing her thing,

the State of Rhode Island finally legalized gay marriage...well it will be on August 1st.

So Sue and I decided after

much discussion and

21 years of hanging around together

 that we would get married.

So we are planning a very casual bash for Sept 7th!

Then off to New Hampshire for another Squam Art Retreat! I was tired when I got there and it was just nonstop chatting, laughing, learning, eating, making things, walking thru the woods, and meeting new folks. Donna and Marti, buddies from last year knitting and sharing pics.

 

 I tried my best manipulating in an attempt to score this amazing woven heart to no avail.

It was created by the beautiful and talented Harriet Goodall and her work is amazing.  

I played with paints, inks and papers with Alena Hennessy. Loved the inks on wood!
And made the famous Squam Smock with Cal Patch. I was part of the Squam Fair this year and was thrilled to be selling to my people!! Thanks all of you! And to Donna and Marti for being supreme helpers, much gratitude!! Fun was had by all!

Lots of plans to make for the upcoming Wedding! Unbelievable surprise and thanks to the Supreme Court for making it's decision to get the Feds on board...finally.

Info For next years fab weekends coming any day now!

Paris and the New Chicken Coop, Quilting Arts and Squam!!!

My new computer has finally arrived!!! So I can proceed!!!

It has been quite a month. Almost no sun, but things are growing like crazy! Things are clearly alive and thriving in the cloudy, rainy, foggy atmosphere! Carrots, beets, lettuces, potatoes, onions, eggplant (well, something is dining on the leaves), peppers, spinach, asparagus (yummy, our first year) all doing well so far! Just had our first strawberries....

Went to Paris in May with my former husband Ed Booth (of Newport BioDiesel) to meet up with son Donald Booth.  Don has been traveling and working for a year through a website called Help Exchange. The site matches up folks looking for help with projects with adventurers looking for work in exchange for a bed and food!

The boys having a toast in Montmartre....

Hot Chocolate from Angelina's below....it was really unbelievable....

We had a great time being super tourists, eating and drinking lots of chocolate, consuming baguetts, croissants, checking out the sights and sounds with thousands of others! And unlike my New England neighbors, we had beautiful weather!

 The Paris markets were filled with beautiful and abundant items like these organic eggs!!

Meanwhile, back in the USA, our chicks continue to grow from little fluff balls into miniature chickens with wings and tails. They are in their new digs and the garage seems so lifeless and quiet. They have adjusted to the outside world and are doing their chicken thing in their new area! Thanks to my offspring Pete and Don they have a nice new home!!!

Quilting Arts Article! 

 I was pleased to have some of my work published in Quilting Arts this month. It is an article about gelatin printing and doll making. Check it out and give it a try! The magazine is filled with amazing work that will inspire your creative selves!!

Last week I was lucky enough to head out again and landed at Squam Lake in NH for the Squam Art Workshops! It was a wonderful time working with saws, drills, crochet hooks and a yoga mat! Saw old friends and met more good women!

There were beautiful faces and busy hands, good food and laughs, music, and a bit of cold windy weather. Follow the links on the Squam site for images of the event. I took my camera and left it in the bag....

Back home and back at it.  Cleaned up in the studio this morning and hope to get some work done. I am so grateful for my life and am sending good wishes out to the world!