Being human...

The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep...

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Resist * Stitch * Bead

Have you ever signed up for a workshop when you weren't quite sure it would offer what you need to know, or if that direction is where you want to go? And then when the workshop is over, you head home with your mind swimming with new inspiration and you realize...

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The cure for f.r.o.z.e.n. paws...

Dry, cold weather is upon us but there's no stopping Isla when she's decked out in her winter coat.  This look she's giving me says something like, "Try and catch me if you can!"  Ahhh, nothing like a dawg with the happiness zoomies to warm your he...

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Bead Journal Project ~ November fog

Just a tiny bit of backtracking...   I am working on the completion of my Bead Journal Project for 2007-08. Yes, you read that correctly...07-08. I am a tad behind, shall we say? Those of you like me, who still haven't finished, you are not alone -...

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The warp and the woof

This is an illustration from "The Project Gutenberg EBook of a Study of the Textile Art in It's Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament", by William H. Holmes.  This page has examples of the warp and woof in mending and darning and they...

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Dawg days of autumn...

...what a glorious time of year here in the Pacific Northwest! It is the perfect season to begin a blog and it seems only fitting to start my first entry with a photo of my soulmutt, Isla, enjoying a gorgeous day, watching leaves fall and probably wishing they...

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