July Embellishment Gathering!

Make Embellishments of all sizes, shapes and materials for all of your projects!

What is better than that?

2 Teachers. Guides, Task Masters

3 Dayz of creating, sharing, relaxing!!!

The BEST homegrown, homemade food in town!

by hand
by machine
fabric
threads
beads
yarns
metal
paper
plastic
found objects
and more!

Charlestown,
Rhode Island
02813

July 27-29, 2012

$400
$135 per day for one or two dayz

$100 holds your spot!

Local Beds for Rent:

Surfside Motel, Charlestown, RI

General Stanton Inn, Charlestown, RI

LaQuinta - Stonington, CT

You can check Westerly and Charlestown area for other choices!

Tracy Stilwell and Linda Willis

for more info and registration info:

tracystilwell@gmail.com

Don't Miss the Fun!

Bruce Winn

My dear friend Bruce died a couple of weeks ago. 

Last spring I started going to Michael and Bruce's home once a week to helping with any tasks that needed doing. He fought a graceful fight. His love and creativity are missed by so many.
I shared the words below at his memorial service...with great difficulty...
My heart weighs ten tons.



folding laundry

fixing lunch

fixing breakfast

feeding lunch

feeding breakfast

cleaning the kitchen

up the stairs

down the stairs

always check on the patient

scheming and preparing sweet treats

dumping urine

rinsing vomit bucket

watering plants

dusting

vacuuming

wiping

brushing

applying

water, gatorade, straws

checking pills

pop tarts, crescent rolls

talking:

business

design

foundry

store

family

friends

doctors

hospitals

living

dying

holidaze

holiday food

the girlz

glee

downton

changing focus

changing sides

changing sheets

changing meds

slowing down

narrowing the view with

grace

humor

fatigue

rebounding

regressing

releasing

a precious intimate gift

and michael, you are the best!

Tulips Continued!

Tulips in Feb!

Kathi Jahnke brought these tulips as a house gift this weekend! Thanks Kath!!

What a Great Weekend!

We had a great weekend with eight women joining us for classes, food, laughs and a few tears.

We worked with paper clay, paints, wire, cloth, old yarn spools, trims, ribbons, yarn, glue, needles and threads...

Paper Clay Bird

Elizabeth's Stamped Face

 Kathi's Head

Kathy's Gypsy

Sandi's Shoulder

 Loretta's Mermaid

 Anne Holliday

Hillary Meekins

  Stephanie Suskin

 Hil and Miss Linda Willis - Stitcher Extraordinaire

xxxxxx

Preparing For our Figure Extravaganza!

Started with crunched up newspaper wrapped in paper tape.

 Then added a layer of plaster gauze.

Paperclay was used to create the facial features and then painted with acrylics.

 

Working on a bird that will sit on her head!!!

Check out the latest Cloth Paper Scissors...my sis Allison has a great article! As you can see from the picture below, she is clearly very excited about the exposure!!!

Dec Has Flown By!!

If I sneak in a quick blog post, I will have managed to say something this fine month of December! Loved that it was soo warm here in the Northeast!!!

The Studio Sale was great with visits from friends and new faces, sharing holiday goodies with the locals! With that big event over, Sue and I headed for Florida to visit the Stilwell sisters...all four together for the first time in eight years!! Took lots of presents to pass around!

Midge and Al have been working on their Florida gardens, shifting the plantings to local shrubs and flowers. It was remarkable to see the number of butterflies that danced around their front yard enjoying the plantings. It was like a little paradise with the butterflies, caterpillars and chrysalis doing their respective jobs. We had been watching the chrysalis pictured below, hanging onto a twig outside of the front door...and voila!! there is miss monarch!

 

It was great to see everyone and I helped Midge and Allison with a few jobs as they prepare for their March show at the Jeanine Taylor Folk Art Gallery. Opening March 17th if you are in the Orlando area!!
Also made a pile of screens that I am happy to say are all taped and ready to use!

Back in Little Rhody Sue was dealing with a chicken slaughter....

something got one of our new girlz, and the following morning the five older girlz were dead. The night I got home from Florida a possum got the second bunny. Thank goodness things have calmed down and the girlz are out eating bugs.

 Helped our buddy Rick move into his new house.

The holidays have come and gone in a rather relaxing manner for us!

Visited with friends.

Chowed with the family. Did I take one picture? No.....

 

Working in the studio...getting samples together for our Jan workshop.

Happy New Year to all and hope that folks can find serenity from day to day!