Driftless Area Art Fair
This is always a sweet fair, with great music, lots of interesting food and many familiar and friendly faces. It doesn't hurt that the art fair organizers treat the artists like royalty, throwing an incredible feast Saturday night and keeping us going with handouts of tasty apples and water throughout the fair. Other than having a canopy that required an [...]
Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival
All my dyeing was not for naught. (That just sounded too Shakespearean to not say.) Nan and I had a very successful and tiring 3 days of total immersion in everything sheepy. Nan even got to see a lamb being born with some assistance from the shepherd. I saw a set of quadruplets shortly after being born, sleepy and not [...]
Dye days of summer
Well I have assembled my little fiber army and am off to The Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival to find fame and fortune; hopefully not in that order. Here are some pics of the last few weeks of madness. Warning; color explosion ahead.Thanks Erinn for lots of great color name ideas based on Dr Who. No one else will be [...]
gathering at Barbs
This months 2nd Monday gathering was at Barbs home in Dell. For me it was an excellent place to escape the endless dyeing and weaving I have been doing for 2 shows I have coming up in September. Yikes it is almost Sept. So this is a short one.Thanks Barb and all for a great respite. And kudos to Harry [...]
2nd Monday at Nan’s
 Summer has certainly reached it's peak as our July weaver's group met at Nan's new house. With temps in the 90's it was a good day to put aside the weeding and weaving and share some good food and laughs with friends.Nan's Habu silk /stainless steel scarf Barb's plaited twillLots of summery treatsBarb's twillsI treated my family to some summer [...]
a great lake
What can be said about our recent trip to Grand Marais MN, but...cold water, fog, great donuts, kayaking, North House Folk School, carving class, waterfalls, beach stone collecting, stone skipping, Angry Trout Cafe(yum), hanging with my kid and hubby, and just plain relaxing.Temperance RiverArtist's Point lighthouse