A Good Day

I'd like to extend a huge Thank You to all who stopped by my booth at this weekend's Alberta Street Fair. Seeing your smiles and positive reactions to my work feeds my spirit! For those of you who made purchases, thank you for making this my best Fair ever in Portland!

Pigeon was a custom order, but she received so much attention that I will be exploring Plush bird-making in the future. 

My plans for now are to move my studio from its current location in a smallish bedroom, to the upstairs of our house, giving me twice the workspace. This will involve moving the entire contents of four rooms of our house, plus some carpet removal and painting. Yeesh! It's a looming task, but it'll be wonderful in the end. 

I'll also be busy at the sewing machine replenishing my stock of Mitts for Musing and bringing more Plush creations to life, but for today it's relaxing in the blueberry field and garden, and an afternoon brewski in our new garden-viewing lounge area.

Alberta Street Fair

I'll be here this weekend:

My booth will be on Alberta Street between 21st and 22nd streets.

Stop on by and say "howdy"!

Whole Foods Hootenanny

I'll be here tomorrow

Summer Deck Happenin's

Stevia plant

Thai Basil

Solar dyeing with walnut & silk (actually, I should call it "cloud dyeing")

Fava bean shucking (mmmm...my favorite!)

Dinner-to-be

New Mitts design with buttons!

New Mitts design with Cuteness!

It's nice to have company

Everyone wants in on the action

And the Winner Is...

I had fun last week entering some of my work in the Columbia County Fair. I was able to enter in several different categories: Hobbies, Textiles, and Sculpture. 

Here's a photo of everything I entered, prize ribbons atached.

I got the high-point award in the Sculpture category with these soft-sculptures. I received a special plaque and some award money donated by Michael Curry Design, a local (large) puppet-making company.

Thanks! I'm already scheming about what to enter next year!

Sherwood Art in the Park

This weekend I'll be participating in the Sherwood Art in the Park wine and art festival. It's a 2-day event benefitting Wild Cat Haven, a rescue refuge for wild cats. It will be my first time doing an event like this. I'm excited to be part of the wine & art crowd! Also looking forward to doing a festival on the grass in a park, rather than setting up on a sloped, concrete street. And amazingly enough, it actually looks like we'll be having a real, sunny (dare I say "hot"?) weekend!

I'll have my special helper!

Today

It's so nice when they like each other!

Little Myron

new sign

Feng-Shui Doo-Hickies

Gourds, feathers, wire, & beads.

Protection Device