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Diversions

Allowing

December 15, 2008

ACEO #30 ©2008 2.5" x 3.5" Sold   Weekend Joy I had intended to post every day this month as December is 31 days devoted to Joy, but this weekend I just wasn’t there. I tried to make it happen, force some kind of joy but that’s not generally the best way to go about [...]

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Pizza

December 5, 2008

ACEO #21 ©2008 2.5" x 3.5" Sold   Yum Today’s joy is brought to you buy some delicious pizza the kids and I had for dinner. Yum. We sat and savored every bite. Except my preteen daughter, who was practicing staring off into space and ignoring me, which I must say was great fun to [...]

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A Little Late

June 12, 2007

I’m a little late but yesterday I finally got my veggie garden planted. I figure I missed 3-4 weeks of the growing season and we have a short season to begin with so I’m not likely to get much of a harvest. But it just isn’t summer without fresh veggies from the garden.   My [...]

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Being Exceptional

June 5, 2007

I haven’t done much artwork lately as I’ve been busy with end of the year activities for my kids. This year in addition to performances, graduations, parties, etc I also volunteered to make a quilt for my daughter’s teacher. As you may recall I made a quilt for the school’s silent auction back in April [...]

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Sailing

April 3, 2007

Sailing Quilt 60" x 87" (twin sized bed quilt)   Over the past month I’ve been diverted from my normal art making activities at times to design, help print and construct this quilt for my kids’ school’s silent auction. Like all public schools it is seriously underfunded so the parents are expected to make up [...]

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Busy

March 11, 2007

  Thanks to everyone for the thoughtful comments on my previous post about respect. I tried a few times to find time to comment as the conversation was going but both work and home didn’t cooperate. Many people made comments I want to respond to and so over the next few days I’ll be writing [...]

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Home

December 30, 2006

The view from my front door this morning.   I flew into Denver last night at 10:00pm in what was supposed to be a blizzard and they were predicting up to 40" of snow again. I was very happy to discover it was yet another case of the meteorologists being completely wrong about the Denver [...]

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