I've just had a massive clean out of my fabric. Maybe I should say it was the filtering of my stash. To be honest I do it every couple of years. I used to pile it all on the floor and ask my friends to come visit and it was like a feeding frenzy….
Category: Capture & Create
OK, I will forget that I saw we were next to the Chica Chica Boom Boom lap dance parlour and I can cope with the balcony.
Oh my goodness, its while since I was able to devote time to the blog. Indeed, I did have a few problems with the internet. In Italy, I paid to have a superior room with good internet in my room. I nearly choked when they opened the door, It was very late, dark and I…
Capturing color.
I began my day with great enthusiasm and walked about a mile from my hotel to Piazza Venizia. The plan was to look at the small hidden gems that are not on the normal tourist lists. The church of San Marcello al Corso, I actually passed it first without realizing the magnificence behind its doors….
Creating textile art from your holiday snaps!
I'm in Rome and I experience so much visual inspiration. I imagine many of you have been in the same situation but wonder how you transfer what you see to a creative art piece, be it in fabric, photographic or on paper. I like to take a sequence of images to tell the…
Rome, I’m working on it.
I’ve been in Rome 24 hours and I think it funny, my room is the size of a box. You can just imagine my face when he showed me my room last night. I sort of spluttered…. And I paid for an executive room!! The internet doesn’t work in the room either. I sort of…
I was close to tears.
peace I'm writing this in the plane and I can finally feel the tension drain out of my body. I'm an organizer. I put everything in imaginary boxes and tick them off. I need everything well prepared before I travel. The trauma of getting to my Hotel in Strasbourg without a functioning GPS made…
A small word sketch of the 20th European Meeting Patchwork.
//player.vimeo.com/video/106825369 My adventures. from holland on Vimeo. This video was made almost a week ago… but I couldn't up load this either… so now I'm in the city, I have better internet. Its just a bit of fun. I made it for my buddies at home and in Alamogordo… Country France is very different to…
The days have been very full.
20th of September, Good morning all. I've been pushing my alloted time around in a circle attempting to get the most our of my waking hours. The days have been very full. I taught all day yesterday and the students were very enthusiastic. Its different working with an interpreter however, we worked well together and…
I almost felt like yodeling.
click here for images. Yesterday was sort of a free day. I did work early, but took time off after that to relax a little. My Translator/assistant suggested that I visit the area of Colmar and I figured I needed to ignore the fact that I am driving a manual car and that the…
Note to me.
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