My buddy Carolyn has a wonderful blog and creates interesting small projects to create. Go visit her and look at. A cute finger pin cushion to make.
Author: Pam Holland
I travel the world teaching and talking.
Photographing and writing,
Sharing experiences
What a way to go.
“P”
"P" for pea, pleat, polka dots – Pam
I’m a designer.
I’m a designer. It’s a delightful state of being because life is always full of interest but not always understood by others. I was made aware of the fact when I took more time than my two male companions could bare when I visited several venues today….In the end I sent them off and just…
Red Square.
The famous St. Basil's Cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built on the edge of Red Square between 1555 and 1561. Legend has it that on completion of the church the Tsar ordered the architect, Postnik Yakovlev, to be blinded to prevent him from ever creating anything to rival its beauty again. (He…
Tsarskoe Selo
We arrived back in Moscow at around 2.00 am this morning and we've had a slow start to the day today. Just finished the washing and other domestic duties…. Our first stop yesterday was Tsarskoe Selo about 20 kms out of St Petersburg. It was rather chilly, but the sun was out and the vista…….
Mosaics and Cathedrals.
I took dozens of photos of the portraits. It gives a wonderful indication of the method of graduated shading for my portrait classes.
I can’t wait to get back to my machine…
Time spent on the road gives me time to think and plan. I've seen so many grand designs that I've decided to create the images in quilting as the background for the two rhinos…. Albert Durer the original artist lived in the late 1400's so I will take some images from that era and transform…
Quilting at the Russian Concert.
Just returned from a Russian spectacular and despite being threatened by security staff I managed to get a shot of a fabulous 25 ft quilt used as a backdrop. It's not a good shot… but I was hiding the camera… However, you can see the size of the people at the base of the picture….
Out of the City.
It’s 1.00 am, I’ve had very little time to write on this trip and I snatch precious moments of time and silence. Time has to be metered and never seems enough, but silence is only attained if I put on my earphones and listen to music. In essence, I can find my own personal silence…
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.â€