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Have a great day and will get back here with tales from the farm and studio!!

Don't Miss This!

A New Pillow!

Worked in the studio this week! It felt great!!!

Made another pillow. Direct paint on fabric. Machine and hand embroidered. 

Front...

Back...

Spent this rainy day organizing and cleaning. I'm quite sure that I upset many many spiders. Well, upset is a nice word.

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!

April 22...

The warm mornings of Cocoa Beach did not fly along with me on my return to Rhode Island! It was 29 degrees this morning...quickly up to 49.

Since my return I have raked millions of leaves

son Pete has been building our new chicken coop inside existing shed

working on getting our bees in order

planted peas and just got our onion and potato starts yesterday

working on some pillows

playing angry birds...somebody help me!!!

May 5th...

I have been trying to get to this for some time now. After installing new op system and new iLife, my iphoto is soooo slow and driving me nuts...so prepping pics was annoying!!! But onward.

We have been celebrating Sue's birthday (peeking out of the new chicken door) for days with wonderful company and food! The real day was yesterday and she has the next 5 days off! Yea!!

The chicks arrived  a week ago. They grow so quickly it is unbelievable.

Bees are settled

Chicken coop for new peepers is coming along

Spied frog eggs in the pond...

Potatoes, onions, shallots, spinach, lettuce, peas in...beets, carrots, more lettuce, leeks going in and plant sales this weekend. Look out, danger...

Leaving for Paris in 6 days...

The garden is just erupting, some of the daffys need dead heading already...

While I was in Coca Beach, we went to visit the

Jeanine Taylor Folk Art Gallery

and we bought this painting by Theresa Disney! Have been looking for something and was thrilled to see her work in person! Such good color and attitude. We love it!

So yoga and walk this morning and then back here to plant seeds, build a chicken yard, deal with daffys, new garden area, check on the chicks, enjoy my girl, maybe relax a bit!!

  

Linda and Tracy’s Fabulous Summer Creative Fling

July 22 -24, 2011

Charlestown, Rhode Island, 02813

Three days of creative inspiration, really really good food, lots of laughs, new friends, the ocean, gardens, shopping...and more. We will be using fabric, paper, paints, stamps, sewing machines, embellishments. And there will be another secret collective project.

 $400.00 includes instruction/guidance and amazing food!!!!

Friday

9:00 Charlestown Farmers Market • fab muffins etc

10:30 Start @ the Studio

Fabric/Paper  Painting, Splattering, Stamp Carving and Printing.

Subject to Some Changes!!

lunch

Continue Morning Fun!

dinner

free studio time

Sat

8:00 breakfast

Patchy Face Pillows....Combining Fabric from the previous Day!

Using faces as  a Guide...your own or made up,

we will combine fabrics, paints, words, stitches, threads....

lunch

Continue Project

dinner

free studio time

Sunday

Charlestown Flea Market

11:00...brunch

work

secret project....

dinner

Take advantage of local beaches, fabric stores, ice cream!

Local Motels/Hotels - Should Make Reservations ASAP

Surfside Motel

General Stanton Inn

Hathaway Cottages  Mostly Queen beds and a futon but within walking distance of the event!

Any questions, contact me through comments

xxxxxx....

The Wonderful Weekend!!

We had such a great time with the women that were able to make it to Little Rhody this weekend. Linda and I had been cooking and freezing goodies. By Friday morning the studio was organized and ready to rock! The table was set, name tags printed, Valentines around, goodie bags put together, beverages in place, gelatin slabs and paints waiting patiently.

Friday afternoon we played with said gelatin and made lots of fabric and paper to be used at a further date. 

Gelatin, Paint, Fabric

Stephanie and Loretta

Sandi and Bev

Lots of laughs, dinner, stories, and the troops went off the the Surfside for sleep and a bit of trouble with the hot water!  Back in the morning for breakfast and sewing!!

Judith and Sue discussing Bees!

 Linda kicks off Saturday Morning with her new Quilt!

Judith Creating!

Sandi looking Fresh and ready to go!!

 Stephanie Stitching Away!!

 

Betti Concentrating...

Kathy and her Fabulous Bag!!!!!!

We continued to eat good food, snacks, found gifts on our plates at every meal, had a little birthday celebration for Loretta, saved threads for the birds, made bags and wall hangings, shared dish washing, oohhed and aahhhed at each others work and it was a long and raucous goodbye. Not before we set a date for summer.

Group Made Souvenirs!

Thanks for everything girlz! Linda and I are working on the summer gathering already and will put the information out into the world as soon as we get it together!! 

Off to Florida next week to see Midge and Al. We should be able to do some good work!! Thinking about silk screening and sunshine...see you soon girlz!

New Pillows!!

My sis, Allison made me a pillow (seen above) for my birthday. She created some of the pieces while still in Florida, and finished it while she was here at Christmas. The crazed pink young lady was "free -stitched" with her trusty Bernina. The message "Everything was fine until my sister moved to Florida" was transferred onto the fabric. Some of the smaller pieces with the black background were created with screens and silk screen paint/ink. She (the pillow girl) is still very distressed, but feeling better now that she is living in New England.

I was then inspired to make a pillow for Sue who

has been doing ALL tasks around the house in addition to going to her regular job since the beginning of December. I returned from a week in Florida, and have been almost useless...so she has cooked, taken care of chickens, rabbits, snow issues, bills, laundry, on and on and on... I managed to sit at my sewing machine and do a bit of hand sewing. The girl on the pillow was created from a gelatin print on fabric. I used my beloved Bernina Stitch Regulator to draw around the girl and write the message.

Linda was just here and we have been working on the details for our Fabulous Fiber Weekend that is coming up here pretty quickly. Working out details for food, goodies, projects etc. It is coming together!! Better take a rest!