Archive | October, 2005
Bizarre Barbies

Bizarre Barbies

Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year, but for the last couple of years, we’ve been traveling too much to really go all out on decorations and parties. We used to have big costume parties at the studio, and to celebrate the creations of our adventurous guests, we gave away Bizarre Barbie Awards. No [...]

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Four Seasons Bathroom

Four Seasons Bathroom

The whole Viking affair felt like being treated like royalty, but nothing says royalty like a really nice bathroom! The one at the Four Seasons Hotel where we were housed during the IQA festival was really posh — big, marbled and luxurious. Fancy little soaps, elegant fixtures, and even the toilet paper had little gold [...]

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Escape from the International Quilt Festival

Escape from the International Quilt Festival

“Help!! PaMdora and I are being held prisoner by a mysterious force field!” Just kidding, I think it’s some sort of tape barrier that is used to surround all the quilts at the International Quilt Festival going on in Houston right now, I suppose to keep the hoards from getting a little too touchy. We’re [...]

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Michael James Exhibition

Michael James Exhibition

Taking the train to Providence to meet up again with Shane and Stacy was a beautiful ride on a rainy autumn afternoon. Stacy had to pick up art supplies for her students at the RISD bookstore, when she dropped a little bomb. “Oh we could drive up to Fuller Craft Museum to see the Michael [...]

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van Gogh at the Met

van Gogh at the Met

On Sunday Russ and I met some family to see a special exhibition of drawings by van Gogh at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that are rarely exhibited because they are fragile and sensitive to light. I would have rather gone on a weekday, because it was almost impossible to study or even see the [...]

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