around the house
A Place to Make Art
Sunday, November 30th, 2008I finally finished up the relocation of my art room. You may remember a previous post when we were putting up pegboard on one of the walls. Well that was many months ago, many months that my art space was in total disarray, making it nearly impossible to find anything or get motivated […]
Little Bits of Ikea Lust
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008On Tuesday evenings my grandson comes to our house for a few hours while his parents are at school. He anticipates this all week, not because he adores his grandparents, rather because he looks forward to playing the X-box. He’s pretty absorbed in his games, yet I feel as though I must sit […]
New Pegboard Wall
Monday, February 25th, 2008This weekend we finally found time to install the pegboard in my new artroom. The photos show 1) the ugly two-toned green felt stuff that was previously on the wall, 2) the installation in process and then 3) the finished wall.
This little nook, which is adjacent to the space we had been using as […]
Tiptoe Lightly Please
Friday, January 4th, 2008My Christmas tree has reached the point of dehydration where walking or sneezing within 15 feet invokes a shower of pine needles. At this point I think there are more needles on the floor than on the branches. We got a fir instead of a spruce this year and I really thought we […]