Fabulous Creative Fling - III

Go Figure - Mixed Media Dolls

January 2012

Friday 27th - Afternoon

Saturday 28th - All Day

Sunday 29th - Morning

Charlestown, Rhode Island, 02813

Join us for a weekend of relaxing, creating, sharing...threads, food, ideas...

Friday Afternoon: Making Faces...all kinds

Saturday: Making Bodies to go with Face

Sunday: Studio Time and The Ever Popular Surprise Collaborative Project

Schedule with Tracy and Linda

Fri

1-4 Class

Dinner

Sat

Breakfast

9-12 work

Lunch

1-4 work

Dinner

Sun

Breakfast

9-12 work

Snack and Go Home

Unbelievable Delicious Meals - Home grown and GOOD!

$400.00 * 2 Teachers * 5 Great Meals * Endless Inspiration!

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!

It's really really fun!!

xx

So Much Happened in July!

July was so busy. My sis Allison and girlfriend Midge arrived, having driven from Florida with boxes of mangoes from their yard and a thermo fax machine! We were thrilled to see them and consumed bowls filled with mangoes as we caught up on life. 

We had to get right on the first two day task of helping to setting up tables, chairs, dishes etc and making pizza dough for 100 folks that would be attending a fund raiser for the Salt Ponds Coalition  that was happening at George and Cathy's beautiful home and farm. All went well and then it was right onto Al's Birthday Celebration that went on for a couple of days with family, friends and a fancy brunch at the Ocean House.

Looming in the background was the list of preparations that needed to be done for our big creative weekend with the brave women heading this way from NY and NJ!!! Finishing name tags, food, supply piles, presents, cleaning, weeding....The day arrived, the girlz arrived with all of their goodies, and off we went...

The overall idea for the weekend was to create an 18 inch pillow. To that end, the first project was fabric painting outside. To survive the 100+ degrees, we quickly watered down fabric and each other, sprayed and splattered paint and retreated to the very cool basement to carve stamps! It is the space that saved the weekend!! So we over came fears of drawing, so so attitudes about carving and with a bit of urging, developed amazing stamps!

Somewhere in there we ate, snacked, drank large volumes to liquid to help with the survival of the 100+ degrees and who knows about the humidity!!! We then moved all of the screen printing materials from the garage down to the cool basement. After a brief demo and discussion we went to work on our painted fabric with silk and thermo fax screens. My sis was developing her new themo fax screen empire as we worked. "Do not let the screens dry out" was the mantra of the afternoon.

Saturday was printing with rubber stamps and sewing day. The afternoon was broken up a bit for some by shopping at a Folk Art Quilts, Wakefield and chowing the best ice cream on the planet! 

 

By the end of Sunday everyone had survived the heat and each other, had a great project done or almost done, a hand made "friendship" book constructed from painted and stamped papers that were worked on over the weekend and shared with everyone, presents from everyone, a fat quarter trade stash, hand made rubber stamps, and a pile of painted, stamped and screened fabric.

And of course the whole thing was made possible because Miss Linda Willis keeps coming to my house and bringing things to eat and projects to make. Thanks Linder (rhodeislandeese)

And thanks to the creative women keep driving here to use my dried up paints and glues...They keep showing up and have advised that they will continue to do so as long as possible!

Thanks also to Midge, Allison and Sue for all of their work in the very very hot kitchen!!! Very much appreciated by all I'm sure!

Details for the next Rhody event coming soon. Save the end of January!!!

Then there is the garden and the chickens and bees...

and

MT's movie "Atomic Mom" in Providence August 12th

try to get there and please tell your friends!!

and

Art is You California in September

Art is You Danbury in October

See you soon somewhere!

Art Is You Coupon! Check It Out!

 

 4th of July Special...Art is You is offering...

Today only, $50 off coupon...code: JULY 4

For a great time in Danbury, Ct....in October!

Tell your friends and loved ones, pass it on through your magical, electronic pathways...

So much to learn and even better are those new best friends just waiting to weave you into their lives!

Pic a teacher, any teacher and you will be happy and inspired!! What is better than that!

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....