All Zipped Up

Sew Biz Fabrics, Radford Va- Jan 15, 2011

Winter has January all zipped up. 

And there will be no flowers in the garden for quite sometime. 

A River of Stones- a 30 day challenge in observation 

Today I took a class with a very fun friend. We made jewelry out of zippers.  We laughed a lot. We are very good at being very silly together- For years our brains have bounced ideas off each other and we appreciate and encourage every creative endeavor we undertake. From painting walls our favorite colors to finding the perfect dog bowl. From making mosaics on the side of a gas station to creating a  new garden. I have always gone outside the box but she allowed me to go outside the box without apologies. She gives me confidence to let my art out... Let my heart out. Love you L L

Sister Anne is on a Mission

Game Night- Blacksburg, VA- Nov.27, 2009

And we all know it's true.

Sister Anne is on a mission

Let's make sure your bottles blue.

And remember this my friend,

                                    where ever you may go-

Sister Anne is on a mission

to make a blue tree grow.

Additionally 

K, has Hawaii all locked up -

but her team mates must have had too much of the stuff in the blue bottles to see it.

also

A,the napkins could be fabric for your next quilt--

Georgia O'Keefe in Abstract

The Whitney Museum (Cafe Sarabeth's), 945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021- Oct, 7, 2009

The Georgia O'Keefe exhibit at the Whitney

September 17, 2009-January 17, 2010

http://whitney.org/www/exhibition/okeeffe.

The exhibit will then be at the Phillips Collection in Washington on Feb. 6 and to the O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe on May 28, 2010—

In the late 70s I fell in love with O'Keefe's "pretty" flowers and desert landscapes. But soon became enamored with her abstracts. I remembering thinking what an amazing woman - she painted when it was still a mans world; despite Steiglitz she was able to almost stay focused.

About the same period while in college for art I was told by my photography professor that my images were too "Kodaky", and barely passed the course.  I remember thinking I really felt moved by my "Kodaky"  images- so I gave up thinking myself an artist and went to Utah with my husband,

Me and my "Kodaky" images are still ok with that turn of events. And my husband and I both very much enjoyed seeing so many of Georgia's paintings.