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And for the leftover strawberries. . .
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looks yummy 😊
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I have a friend who worked for DSS who was organizing a "chair auction" and was asking various artists in the area to donate painted chairs. Another friend was moving and cleaning out her attic and ran across this child's white wicker chair and said I could have it.
Since it was a child's, I opted to go with a 'Monsters' theme while adding a blankie, book, and beanie babies. It was such fun to make because it took me back to being a mother and doing things like this for my children.
I loved how it turned out. It was the first to sell to a couple with a little girl, who won the bid at $275.00.
crimsin said:looks yummy 😊
It was. I do love fresh summer fruit.
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I thought of this thread when I read this:
“When you learn to make things with your hands, you begin to awaken an awareness of the beauty and value of things in your life.
Handmaking teaches us about slowness: the antidote to brevity and efficiency. It shows us, through the patience and skillfulness of our own hands, what goes into a thing.
When we put those long efforts into bringing beauty into the world, we are honouring that which made us by creating as we have been created. We are taught to respect the slow, attentive piecing together of the life we yearn for.
Stitch by stitch, we apprentice the craft. We work in tandem with mystery, feeling its rhythms awaken in our bone-memory.
As the hands work, the mind is stilled and a greater listening is engaged as we drop down into the deep rhythm of devotion, where the whole world is in communion.
The ferns unfurl, the daffodils trumpet, the rosebuds fatten, and the song of creation can be heard.”
~ Toko-pa Turner, excerpt From “Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home”
www.belongingbook.com
Art by Meraylah Allwood
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Last of the peaches! Bring on Autumn apples!
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Pumpkin centerpieces! Getting ready for the equinox!
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Ahavati said:I thought of this thread when I read this:
“When you learn to make things with your hands, you begin to awaken an awareness of the beauty and value of things in your life.
Handmaking teaches us about slowness: the antidote to brevity and efficiency. It shows us, through the patience and skillfulness of our own hands, what goes into a thing.
When we put those long efforts into bringing beauty into the world, we are honouring that which made us by creating as we have been created. We are taught to respect the slow, attentive piecing together of the life we yearn for.
Stitch by stitch, we apprentice the craft. We work in tandem with mystery, feeling its rhythms awaken in our bone-memory.
As the hands work, the mind is stilled and a greater listening is engaged as we drop down into the deep rhythm of devotion, where the whole world is in communion.
The ferns unfurl, the daffodils trumpet, the rosebuds fatten, and the song of creation can be heard.”
~ Toko-pa Turner, excerpt From “Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home”
www.belongingbook.com
Art by Meraylah Allwood
Great Quote thank you.
This is my current weaving project - it will be a baby hammock for someone in our community expecting a baby in a month. I've yet to tablet-weave some straps to hang it with. We've just survived another big fire; some friends lost everything.
Strange ... just before the rains came, 150 fires suddenly started in the night across Northern Portugal, in potentially Lithium mining areas. Fire came within 500m of our holiday house. Friends who are due the baby got their land burnt, with their woodland too, but the half-finished house and all outbuildings were saved. It was a long 72 hours.
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Josh said:
Great Quote thank you.
This is my current weaving project - it will be a baby hammock for someone in our community expecting a baby in a month. I've yet to tablet-weave some straps to hang it with. We've just survived another big fire; some friends lost everything.
Strange ... just before the rains came, 150 fires suddenly started in the night across Northern Portugal, in potentially Lithium mining areas. Fire came within 500m of our holiday house. Friends who are due the baby got their land burnt, with their woodland too, but the half-finished house and all outbuildings were saved. It was a long 72 hours.
That is so sweet, Josh. I can't wait to see if with the straps!
Sorry to hear about your fires. 150 suddenly? That sounds somewhat suspicious. But I guess embers can travel and spark new ones if the area is dry.
We've been inundated with flooding and power loss from Hurricane Helene. The roads to the mountains are washed out and closed. Asheville is cut off from the rest of the state and Chimney Rock has been washed away. Boone and Hendersonville looked like Venice. I hear the water is beginning to recede now, but the damage is done. It's been horrible.
Great Quote thank you.
This is my current weaving project - it will be a baby hammock for someone in our community expecting a baby in a month. I've yet to tablet-weave some straps to hang it with. We've just survived another big fire; some friends lost everything.
Strange ... just before the rains came, 150 fires suddenly started in the night across Northern Portugal, in potentially Lithium mining areas. Fire came within 500m of our holiday house. Friends who are due the baby got their land burnt, with their woodland too, but the half-finished house and all outbuildings were saved. It was a long 72 hours.
That is so sweet, Josh. I can't wait to see if with the straps!
Sorry to hear about your fires. 150 suddenly? That sounds somewhat suspicious. But I guess embers can travel and spark new ones if the area is dry.
We've been inundated with flooding and power loss from Hurricane Helene. The roads to the mountains are washed out and closed. Asheville is cut off from the rest of the state and Chimney Rock has been washed away. Boone and Hendersonville looked like Venice. I hear the water is beginning to recede now, but the damage is done. It's been horrible.
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Ragù Bianco with Beyond Meat crumbles last night. Couldn't decide between Fettuccini Alfredo or the aforementioned. . .because Italian food!
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My ofrenda, of course!