If you missed me at Peters Valley Spring Virtual Craft Market last weekend, here’s what you missed…
Projects completed as of February 2021, and an inspired gift that arrived in the mail…
A phoenix presented itself to Lady C in a dream, and when she said: “what is your name?” it replied: “rue de attar”…
As an artist/designer, when your work becomes boring and sales slow to a trickle, you can either give it up, or shake it up. 2019 was that year for me…
I was quite taken with a ceiling light at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home & Studio in Oak Park. and couldn’t wait to transform it into a had design…
Today’s walkabout leads me to a trader’s coat at the History Museum, and the famous Peacock Doors at the Palmer House.
My King Crow Cap is made from rescued textiles and inspired by a manuscript housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is my entry into the “Met 150 Design Contest” which runs through August 12, 2019. Send me luck, and perhaps your vote !
“…many beauties take the air by the Ch’ang waterfront… their embroidered silk robes in the spring sun are gleaming… and hanging far down from their temples are blue leaves of delicate kingfisher feathers…”
from “A Song of Fair Women” by Tu Fu