It's All in the Details!

I really should have been paying more attention when groups asked for help to hang a show. I didn't think I needed to learn because someone else was better at it than me.

So when it came time to hang my own show, I realized I'd never done it before.....ooops! But my DH (the tall guy) and my friend, Barb were part of my very wonderful crew, and I couldn't have asked for better and more patient people!

 

First, I packed my suitcase.... this suitcase once belonged to my grandmother and I keep meaning to "pretty it up", oh well.

I put in everything I thought I'd need:

• hammer
• eye screws
• hanging wire
• tape
• sticky stuff for the labels
• pens and marker

.....but I forgot the measuring tape!

 I folded the larger pieces into fabric so they wouldn't get knocked about:

I did some last minute preparations:

 

I bought some plants:

 

 And then we hung the art!

 

The show looks wonderful, people actually came to see it and I'm thrilled!

It's still hanging til February 2nd, It has to come down by noon, I'm teaching that morning, so 1/2 of my set up crew (the DH) has to take it down! I haven't told him yet, do you think he'll mind?

More Ice, More Beauty!

I've been doing some more Ice Dyeing, trying to keep up to a wonderful group of students. Here's some of my latest patterns:

Aren't they gorgeous? the secret is working with fabric folded into equilateral triangles..... the top two fabrics are just as vibrant as the bottom one but I took the picture with my iPad and not my phone...

A Little Video for You!

Save the Date....

Keep January 22nd aside on your calendar, because you're invited to my first solo show! Please join me from 4-6 pm and see my new series, entitled [Insert Here] Textile Art Inspired by Structure. Of course you can come anytime to see the pieces, be sure to sign my guest book!

 

Be Careful What You Ask For!

One of my goals for 2016 was to read more good books! I've always been an avid reader but have found in recent years that I've kinda gotten lazy about finding something to capture me between its pages.
So I went to the best source of all knowledge, Facebook and asked all my friends! Wow, you all amazed me, thank you, thank you! I am now equipped with reading material for the next 12 months and more. Some I'll buy and some I'll look for at the library. One person keep a list on Pinterest to share, great idea and many suggested www.goodreads.com

So I promised the list to everyone and they are not in any particular order. If you've read the books listed, then look for others by the same author! At the bottom of the list are authors that are recommended by other but not any particular books. I've not vetted them or checked spelling and I didn't look up the authors for books if they weren't provided (I know, I'm not very helpful, sorry!)
Let me know what you think! Enjoy!

Title                                                                       Author

Left Neglected                                     Lisa Genova (Still Alice)

Puny Sorrows                                      Miriam Toews
Ragged Company                                Richard Wagamese
All the Light We Cannot See               Anthony Doerr
Ru                                                        Kim Thuy
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox    Maggie O'Farrell

Guns, Germs and Steel                       Jared Diamond.
Life after Life                                      Kate Atkinson

God in Ruins                                       same

Road Trip Rwanda by                         Will Ferguson

 914                                                     same

The Girl on the Train                          Paula Hawkins

Boys in the Boat

Shit my Dad Says                                Justin Halpern

What we Keep                                     Elizabeth Berg

Maude                                                  Donna Mobry

Bone River                                           Megan chance

Dreams of Joy                                      Lisa See

The Game of Thrones                          George RR Martin.

Water for Elephants                              Sara Gruen.

A House In The Sky                            Amanda Lindhout.

People of the Book                              Geraldine Brooks

When I Found You

The power of One                                Bryce Courteney

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

A Light Between Oceans

Deep Down Dark

Loving Frank

The Glass Castle.

Old Filth                                              Jane Gardam "

The long way home                            Saroo Brierley

A House in Fez                                   Suzanna Clark

Mao's Last Dancer                              Li Cunxin

Colour                                                  Victoria Finlay

The promise of Iceland                       Kari Gislason

Chocolat                                              Joanne Harris

The Invention of Wings                       Sue Monk Kidd  

Bone Clocks                                         David Mitchell

The Reason I Jump                             Marcus Zusak "

The Book Thief

What the Pilgrim told the Psychic      Jane Christmas

Anne Cleeves                                      Jimmy Perez series set in Shetland Islands

The Saints of The Lost and Found.      T M Causey

The House of Niccolo Novels             Dorothy Dunnett

Big Magic                                            Elizabeth Gilbert.

Marie Bostwick

Three Day Road                                  Joseph Boyden

The God of Small Things                    Arandhti Roy

Never Let me Go                                  Kazuo Ishiguru

The Book of Negroes.

Orenda                                                 Joseph Boyden.

A Tale For The Time Being                 Ruth Ozecki

Second Skin                                         India Flint

Favourite Authors

Margaret Maron, Louise Penny, and Anne Emery

Wanda E Brusetter

Bill Bryson

J K Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith has written a trilogy featuring a detective Cormoran Strike.

Anything by Bryce Courteney, Colleen McCulloch, Tom Keneally

Jodi Picoult

Toni McGee Causey

Henning Mankell if you enjoy Swedish noir,