Archive | February, 2007
Getting Back on the Horse

Getting Back on the Horse

PaMdora’s back! Maybe not in full strength, but she’s getting there… In cleaning up my hard drive, I happily found this old template for the blog. It’s a couple of years old so it doesn’t have my blog links, but it will do for now. However I wasn’t too worried about recovering it because I’ve [...]

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The Art of Quilting PBS program

Next Saturday, the documentary The Art of Quilting will air on our local PBS station. Check out Lisa Call‘s quilt in the background of the PBS website, hopefully it will be on the cover of the DVD when it’s released! Last March a crew from Wisconsin came to my studio to do an interview. I [...]

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More Bright Lights

More Bright Lights

Although our studio is still a wreck, good things keep happening. Yesterday afternoon we had our third photo session with Bob Linder of Signature magazine for a feature article that should come out the end of March. We did the session in the back warehouse with lots of Russ’s metal cutouts in the background. It’s [...]

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The Squirrel Tree

The Squirrel Tree

Humans weren’t the only people who suffered in the January 2007 ice storm. I think a lot of wild animals struggled too. Yesterday I saw a disoriented racoon sitting in the middle of the road in the bright daylight, so I imagine he was sick or hurt. And in our own yard, there has been [...]

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Tiki Tales

Tiki Tales

Moving back to the warehouse has not been so easy, especially working by torchlight (heh, just kidding.) But at the same time, it’s reinvigorated my interest in the Tiki Lounge that we built in our studio several years ago. I learned something new about the origins of tiki. Apparently it was started in California by [...]

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