tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2381134018410932732024-03-05T14:52:03.462-08:00mostly threadsSuzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-40024546747181773952020-06-21T17:28:00.000-07:002020-06-21T17:28:23.608-07:00Day 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello everyone! Today's offering is from our walks around the neighborhood. The garden colors are so vivid this year, due to the late rains and probably the decrease in vehicle traffic. Now that we are slowly "opening", the traffic has increased, but the colors are still intense. So here is the Jacaranda tree and you can see how it sheds a purple carpet around itself. <br />
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The other day I saw an odd shape on the ground. It looked like a crab and then when I looked up into the tree I saw another hanging off a branch; it looks like each clump of flowers produces one of these pods:<br />
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It's about 2" long and quite hard. <br />
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Then today, walking in the opposite direction, I found another pod that was slightly open. And inside were:<br />
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what look like teeth, but I think they are what hold the seeds in until the pod opens and casts the seeds about. I am missing part of the process here and have to be more vigilant to discover an unopened pod. Or perhaps some seeds. I would like to grow a jacaranda tree. But in the meantime I am working on fixing my little shop up so as to offer some home-made items to you all. There is an abundance of them here in my studio, which I will show you, but right now it's time for dinner and a walk to the post-office with the dogs. Alice is visiting!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It should be noted, although you've probably figured it out, that I was the only one enthusiastic about this photo. The girls are working things out and there was a bit of growling. Well, that's all for now, off we go...<br />Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-16831706667669364512020-06-10T09:51:00.001-07:002020-06-10T09:53:39.307-07:00Day 2 of return<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello again! Yesterday a neighbor told me about a new trail that had opened beside the bay. It goes behind our racetrack and presents this view:</div>
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That's the Golden Gate Bridge way off in the distance. Sometimes during the isolation of this pandemic I fall into thinking I need to go somewhere else, but no more. It is easy to get to this trail, and there are beautiful benches just made for gazing and knitting. Water lapping on the shore eases my agitations like nothing else and I am Grateful.<br />
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So, I've been inspired by an Australian ceramicist <a href="http://www.erinswindow.com/" target="_blank">www.erinswindow.com</a> to experiment with porcelain. I rented some space at my neighborhood gallery <a href="http://www.abramsclaghorn.com/" target="_blank">www.abramsclaghorn.com</a> to make little porcelain shards. The owner of the gallery, Robert Abrams, helped me get started and fired the pieces for me. Due to the lockdown I'm back in my own studio now. Here is one of the critters I made. It is kind of a shelter in place self-portrait.<br />
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That's all for now...be safe. With love ~~ s.</div>
Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-46225236076379664852020-06-07T16:19:00.001-07:002020-06-07T16:20:54.705-07:00a return of sorts<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello everyone! I've been gone for quite a while and perhaps I'm back, but am not sure yet. This is certainly a profoundly unsettling time that we're living through and I hope all of you are doing ok. I will not even try to catch you up on my activities except maybe bit by bit. </div>
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First I will have to remember how to do all this! My first photo is called Little Fuzzy; it's a refridgerator magnet. One of many that I'm considering putting in my shop, once I remember how. Perhaps!<br />
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That's all for now. Love to you all. ~~ SuzannaSuzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-1893661202260630772018-01-23T18:56:00.001-08:002018-01-23T19:08:45.848-08:00One more (December/January)Hello everyone! Well, here is the final watercolor plus haiku offering for my 6 month Mending and Healing Project! What an experience this has been. Please see the previous posts for an explanation of the project; I am sure there will be more to say on the subject, but in the meantime, thank you so much for bearing with me!<br />
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Oh yes, my favorite holiday is coming up! February 2...Groundhog Day! Day of the mysterious shadow(s). xoxo, s.<br />
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Hello everyone, and I hope your new year has started out in a positive direction! Somehow, despite taking every precaution possible I have succumbed to whatever flu or cold is making its way through the population. It is so important to take good care; relapses occur and it is just no fun. So I have only managed three offerings for the December Mending and Healing Project (please see earlier posts for an explanation of the project), and here they are:</div>
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<br />Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-47534587229243745912017-12-05T08:57:00.002-08:002017-12-05T09:27:07.475-08:00Four for NovemberHello everyone! I hope you had a ...(fill in some kind of hopefully positive adjective) November. I am still riding out the end of my cold which is a cough, but it's getting better as long as the stressors can be calmed. Here are the four images plus haiku for November. The first one is from earlier in the project.<br />
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The song continues;</div>
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day breaks and the moon ripens.</div>
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Pay attention now.<br />
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These images represent the fifth offering in a 6 month commitment I've
made to donate 50% of the proceeds of my artwork to the ACLU of Northern
California with a focus on giving assistance to immigrant communities.
A 5" x 7" print of each of these original watercolors is available</div>
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for $20. (postage is minimal, but extra)</div>
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</div>
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If you are interested in participating, please contact me through my
email address (click on "complete profile" in the sidebar under "about
me". Then click on "email" under "contact".) This will all be a little
easier once I have my new website in the new year. If you have trouble reaching me,
please let me know in a comment.</div>
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Thank you, dear readers. Have a good December. xoxo, s. </div>
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Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-15972174543543929472017-11-04T13:21:00.001-07:002017-12-01T13:33:37.885-08:00Four for October<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello everyone! October was a challenging month and at the end of it a very nasty cold came along, but here are the four images, plus haiku; at the onset I thought they would all be drawn from my train trip, but other realities cropped up. The theme remains the same...mending and healing. </div>
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wading in the cool waters;</div>
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teach us to use words better?</div>
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These images represent the fourth offering in a 6 month commitment I've
made to donate 50% of the proceeds of my artwork to the ACLU of Northern
California with a focus on giving assistance to immigrant communities.
A 5" x 7" print of each of these original watercolors is available</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
for $20. (postage is minimal, but extra)</div>
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</div>
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If you are interested in participating, please contact me through my
email address (click on "complete profile" in the sidebar under "about
me". Then click on "email" under "contact".) This will all be a little
easier once I have my new website. If you have trouble reaching me,
please let me know in a comment.</div>
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Thank you, dear readers. Have a good November. xoxo, s. </div>
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Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-69961787728791502172017-10-03T09:41:00.003-07:002017-10-03T09:41:36.510-07:00Four for September<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello everyone! Here are the four images (plus haiku) for September:</div>
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Of the many things</div>
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I found today, nothing beats</div>
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waking up alive.<br />
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Waters flood, fires burn</div>
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Mother Nature takes her turn</div>
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Run for cover, pray.</div>
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Prepare for next year</div>
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set your buds early, hold on</div>
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to the important.</div>
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These images represent the third offering in a 6 month commitment I've made to donate 50% of the proceeds of my artwork to the ACLU of Northern California with a focus on giving assistance to immigrant communities. A 5" x 7" print of each of these original watercolors is available</div>
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for $20. (postage is minimal, but extra)</div>
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If you are interested in participating, please contact me through my
email address (click on "complete profile" in the sidebar under "about
me". Then click on "email" under "contact".) This will all be a little
easier once I have my new website. If you have trouble reaching me,
please let me know in a comment.</div>
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Next month's offering will be very likely be drawn from my latest trans-continental train trip! That's all for now, dear readers. xoxo, s. </div>
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Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-3557940152853531692017-08-30T15:35:00.001-07:002017-08-30T15:36:59.389-07:00Four for August<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello everyone. In July, I outlined a six-month plan to do a fund-raising campaign. Each month I will create four 5 x 7"watercolors on the theme of mending/healing. Prints of these will be available for $20, of which 50% will go as a donation to the ACLU of Northern California. (postage is extra) My particular concern is for immigrants' rights issues. Today I sent off $60!!! A BIG thank you! You will receive an email acknowledgement from the ACLU of Northern California. If you are interested in participating, please contact me through my email address (click on "complete profile" in the sidebar under "about me". Then click on "email" under "contact". This will all be a little easier once I have my new website. If you have trouble reaching me, please let me know in a comment. </div>
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Here are the four August prints with their accompanying haiku:</div>
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Hearts become as stones;</div>
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they do not care to listen.</div>
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The weeds take over.</div>
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How did the little</div>
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lantern of hope find itself</div>
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Mother Nature, how</div>
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please, do you regard all this</div>
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constant shouting waste?</div>
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May we have balance,</div>
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decency, kind words and peace...</div>
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a sigh of longing.<br />
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Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-69892294853744833212017-07-30T15:15:00.002-07:002017-07-30T15:17:16.925-07:00July's four<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello everyone. Referring back to my last post, in which I outlined a plan for the next six months, here are the 4 watercolors, with their explanatory haiku, created for the July offering.</div>
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Each 5" x 7" print (on archival paper) costs $20. Half of this will go to the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California <a href="http://www.aclunc.org/">www.aclunc.org</a>. I am particularly interested in supporting immigrants rights in agricultural areas. </div>
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I hope you have had a good July and are heading into an August full of pleasant surprises! Love, S.</div>
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Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-32770171489172833292017-07-22T20:41:00.001-07:002017-07-22T20:41:42.216-07:00A planHello everyone! I have been hatching a new plan which represents my small effort towards addressing the situation my country is in. For six months I am going to do a series of 5" x 7" watercolors, hoping to post one (or more?) a week, on the theme of mending and healing. The plan is to sell prints of these images for $20 per. I will donate fifty percent of the earnings, for six months, (July 1- December 1, 2017) to the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/" target="_blank">ACLU</a>
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<br />Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-48527396954851497602017-06-27T21:19:00.000-07:002017-06-27T21:19:25.809-07:00Hello from homeHello everyone! My experience at the World of Threads Festival, mentioned in my last post,so long ago, was wonderful. Then came the election and all my words disappeared. Recently however, they have been returning. I will just say hello for now, and send love to you. ❤️. No promises, but there may be more. Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-28070329003498844732016-10-28T12:16:00.000-07:002016-10-28T12:18:49.441-07:00hello from awayhello everyone! In the interest of getting a tiny bit caught up, I want to share a bit of good news with you. I am very temporarily in Toronto, to celebrate the fact of 5 of my small embroideries being in the World of Threads Festival here. I thought this a good excuse for a train trip across Canada, and then a visit to see my family after the exhibit. Alas, I am technologically challenged about how to post photos that are on the iPhone onto the ipad, and I can't seem to persuade the iPhone to post thru Blogger, so this is all that is possible now. MOST OF ALL, I want to invite anyone who might be nearby, to come to this show! I am thrilled to have been included and so much look forward to seeing all the works and meeting my fellow artists!<br>
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It represents the big activity on my block which is a neighbor house being raised to<br />
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Suzannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454936453601178noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238113401841093273.post-91022658997105837492016-02-01T17:48:00.001-08:002016-02-01T19:47:35.324-08:00Hello Shadow<div>
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The plan is to drape the cloth around him (her?) and then stitch it up, sort of like molding a dress on a dress form. I'm not at all sure this will work, and I do want to find out, but ran out of time for now. </div>
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There is another plan for tomorrow, which is to do some stitching in public. That is, to go to a cafe to work on a stitching project. It's so different from working at home, and I like to see the people on their computers looking a bit curious about hand-work.<br />
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Many days and even two moons have gone by since last I wrote. Almost every day I have thought today is the day to write and then that day went by, but suddenly today arrived. So I will fill you in a bit. Two lovely train trips, one to New Jersey and one, for Christmas, to Ohio, where I gave the completed quilt to my eldest grandson! Voila!</div>
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Thank you to <a href="http://www.spiritcloth.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Jude</a>, and everyone in this community who gave me ideas and encouragement for proceeding in a not completely conventional manner. Although I've been silent, in terms of my blog, for a while, my gratitude to each of you is huge and profound.</div>
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Today I'll give you a peek at the most recent makings. Awhile ago I mentioned the "cloth of unsettling events". As soon as I took the photo I realized that is by no means finished, but here it is, as is. </div>
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While on my trip to the Northwest, I visited a show in Astoria, Oregon of original works by Katherine Dunn, of Apifera Farm. Her <a href="http://apiferafarm.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog </a>is always intriguing; her lively and kindly imagination sees deeply into life, so I was very glad to be able to see her work in person again. These are some of my very favorites... The <a href="http://riverseagallery.squarespace.com/artists-2d/katherine-dunn/" target="_blank">Riversea Gallery</a> website shows more...<br />
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Hello everyone. I've relatively recently returned from my first solo camping trip to the beautiful Northwest, with a destination of Lopez Island and three magical days at my second workshop with <a href="http://prophet-of-bloom.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">India Flint</a>. We made wayfarers' wonder jackets using bits and pieces of other clothing items which we reassembled to make our unique garments! What fun, and challenging too. I loved stretching my mind to embrace the concepts of sleeves becoming pockets and shirts being transformed into pinafores.<br />
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And this is how it's been progressing since coming home. I will dye it once construction is done.<br />
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India is very patient and full of interesting ideas and poems. It was a most congenial group of women who gathered to work in Patsy's beautiful garden studio. <a href="http://sweetpeapath.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Christi</a> did a first rate job of organizing everything so all went smoothly. Patsy, Christi and India created the most delicious lunches for us. Oh goodness...that's what it all was: Goodness. Great Goodness.</div>
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There also was opportunity to be gastronomically delighted by... guess what...wild mushrooms. I was a bit nervous but ultimately trusted the experts and found these "shaggy manes" to be delicious!</div>
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I visited two friends from the workshop in Seattle on the way home. We watched the eclipse together and opened some more more bundles from the workshop. Magic. </div>
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So now I'm home and have been gathering leaves from our parched environment and have bundled them up and dyed this old shirt. I used marigolds, eucalyptus, rose leaves and apple leaves in a stainless steel pot, with some iron bits and a little bit of copper. Some of the marigold petals are still on there. The cloth is still wet so looks a bit brighter than it will later. I've never gotten such golden hues before. I wonder if it could be due to the drought somehow.</div>
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Next I am going to tell you about a wonderful show I visited on the way to the workshop, so stay tuned. xoxo, ~s.
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We've been looking at shore birds. Walking at the dog park has become problematical due to bigger dogs with not helpful owners, so until I can learn how to deal with the issue there, we're going other places, by bike. One day a drama among the birds and a crab played itself out right before my very eyes and Ah-Ha, thought I, here is the makings of another Very Small Book! So to start, I've been embroidering an egret. It is almost finished. Mostly am experimenting with how to go about it. I love doing the millions of tiny stitches, but am I being practical. Do I need to be practical. That is not a proper question because I will probably go for the millions of tiny stitches because they are such a good antidote to all the crazy stuff elsewhere, but I do consider the question. Anyway, here is the egret this far:</div>
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Hello everyone. The very small book is finished now...I'm still making small changes, but basically it seems OK!</div>
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When the family was here in the early part of July we went to the eastern side of the Sierras for a few days. What majesty! This is Convict Lake, which we walked around. It looked quite manageable to me at the outset, but the high altitude made it seem a lot longer. It rained while we were there...bliss!!</div>
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The story is about an old donkey, and the book will be 16 pages long...all of which will be printed on both sides of one sheet of paper. Each page has a bit of text plus a photo of one of the embroideries. Because I spent years and years exploring photoshop, I put some of those skills to work on this Very Small Book. It has taken quite awhile to figure out how to do this, but we're getting close! More will be revealed soon. </div>
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On the left a bold plaid by <a href="http://www.weeverwoman.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Susan Harvey</a>, and on the right are <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">2 variations on a pattern by <a href="http://www.onesmallstitch.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jean Betts</a>. I love using hand woven cloths in my kitchen. </span><br />
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Hello everyone. Although I'm home now, I wanted to show you this garden that I stumbled on whilst in Portland. The Chinese Classical Garden.<br />
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A haven of tranquillity right near the train station. There was a tea room where I had a very delicious tea egg. </div>
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Then a musician appeared playing the Chinese violin. Beautiful clear tones enhancing the peacefulness of the whole experience. </div>
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This was inspired by the marmalade bush that was still blooming when I got home:</div>
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Here is a rearing up donkey with flowers: part of a series that's becoming a Very small book. </div>
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On May Day I went to see the Morris Dancers who were giving thanks to the rising of the sun!</div>
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