Lazy days of summer

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021 ~ Liz A ~ 6 Comments

June 8, 2021 – Artichoke leaf on buttery yellow

June 9, 2021 – The jewel in Princess P’s crown

School’s out, so we get to see Griffin when we head up to Austin during the day …

Having heard about Parker’s newfound appreciation for artichokes, G asked when he might get a taste.

“Someday soon, buddy … someday soon,” was our reply.

It’ll be fun to see Parker coach him through the proper technique for eating those butter-dipped leaves of goodness. But having rescheduled our day with P, it wasn’t to be this time around; G had a prior engagement with a former classmate. So we just picked up P on Wednesday, which happened to be face-painting day …

“That looks like a patch,” was my first thought. Sure enough, two days later a wild bit of Deb’s cloth called out to be included. A good call, I’d say.

And, as always, our time together with P was well-spent …

including an inventive solution to missing puzzle pieces. Elsa never looked so good.

A dream come true

June 8, 2021April 8, 2022 ~ Liz A ~ 19 Comments

May 7, 2021 – A torn and tattered heart reimagined

I scrolled and scrolled to get to this post in Mo’s blog and her reply to a comment …

The rest is Kindred Spirit history, beautifully documented on Mo’s blog through the tag I dream of a world where love is the answer and in an online catalog of her resulting Artsite Gallery exhibit.

It was the online catalog that led Andra Stanton to send me an email inviting me to contribute to a book she was writing for Schiffer. I confess to being skeptical at first, but she included the title of her book, Dimensional Cloth, which convinced me to explore further.

Many emails and two years later, Andra’s latest book, How Art Heals, has now been published …

and the oddment from Mo’s exhibit, first written about in my original blog …

appears on page 156 (where credit is incorrectly given to me for the first photograph, but was actually taken from Mo’s online catalog) …

All of which I find most amazing. So thank you Mo for making this possible … on so many levels. And to Old Man Crow for the words and music that carried us through. May we all continue to dream.

At long last

June 7, 2021 ~ Liz A ~ 14 Comments

Over the years both Meg and Meliss have tried to convince me to get a stand mixer … as in “I’d like to get you one for (fill in the blank) Christmas/Mother’s Day/your birthday.”

Always I’ve said “thank you, but no thank you … I don’t have enough counter space and really, my hand mixer is all I need” …

After all, my mom did just fine all those years without a stand mixer. Well, except when she first married and had a Mixmaster like this one …

Which, come to think of it, was kinda fun to use.

And I have to confess it has been getting harder to make batches of cookie dough these days … well, except when I’m at somebody else’s house and can use their stand mixer …

So when Meliss asked again last month, she “won” the maybe-I-can-convince-Mom-this-time lottery. Which is to say, I finally said “I’d love it.” And I might also have suggested it be a combined Mother’s Day/birthday gift … because, you know, me being me.

Thus it was, in a fine bit of perfect timing, a brand-spanking-new Kitchenaid 3.5 quart mixer arrived midway between Mother’s Day and my upcoming 65th. Turns out I actually do have room for it on the counter and am currently auditioning potential locations …

just in time for Cowboy Camp!

But that’s another story …