Summer Studio Tour :: 5

knitted scrubbies for the sink:

simple garden twine, cast on 12 and knit until it's sponge-sized

The annual rock-balancing playdate was had on our favorite beach, between Mr. CraftingMama and our dear friend Matthew from StillmanSays. It's a family past-time and we spread the joys of rock-balancing at any beach we visit that features rocks. They get started and pretty soon other beach-goers are inspired also. Summer studio is everywhere...

"silence!"

Another great production by Terra Diddle Collective, "The Phoenix Awakening," featuring our own thespian Jonas. Who plays an evil king just fabulously! He had some great choreography and I always delight in seeing him enter new roles with his zest for the dramatic.
Kathryn's sets were incredible, as always, and the natural lighting was a joy to photograph.
This is the summer studio post about what everyone else has been doing. I am still, boringly, working on that sweater sleeve. Less boringly, totally all-consuming recently, but not quite ready to photograph is the space transformation you are probably sick to death of hearing me go on about here. It's close. Very close. And it's taken most of my creative juices to produce.

Here's what's thrilling: my studio-corner-to-be has been unearthed from behind boxes of all of our books (now on bookshelves again!--librarian's heart goes pitterpat). I even saw my sewing machine back behind all those books! This idea of the corner of my own came from this post by the Yellow Door Paperie and I just fell in love with the possibility of something small and mine, even if I couldn't have a dreamy studio space. My Corner will need some work: more lighting, perhaps a small wall of a light colored paint behind it, maybe a bulletin board. I put the table in and set my sewing machine on top. It feels exciting, like new shoes. Will post pictures soon, promise.

::thanks to BeautyThatMoves for providing the space for connection through the summer studio tour!::

Summer Studio Tour :: 4

As part of our Home Improvement Summer Studio...I bring you: The dresser. Jonas's, to be precise. It's solidly built (read: really heavy to move) but came from a sweet library volunteer (one of the best, and that's saying a lot).

It used to be a very shiny brown.

Now: Lingering Lilac.

(I was looking for just the right shade of purpley blue that wouldn't feel to girly, and the alliteration was a total bonus.)

The hands of a favorite

who came bearing fruit.

Can you hear me? "Wait! Stop! Let me get my camera!"

a little nest found under the galvanized metal tub in our yard

::Thank you, BeautyThatMoves, for inspiring the Summer Studio Tour::

Summer Studio Tour :: 3

~a busy summer week~

~moving two boys who have shared one room

into two separate spaces, still in process~

~a birthday with lemon cake and a boy who is almost 8~

~and a knitted sleeve,

no, not a new sleeve,

not the second sleeve,

but the first sleeve

again

bigger~

~taking comfort in the words of Winston Churchill

on my knitting bag

(because if the sleeve needed re-knitting to make it fit, so will the body. sigh.)~

::Thanks to BeautyThatMoves for organizing the Summer Studio Tour! Check that link to visit her site as well as finding links to others who are participating in the Studio Tour!::

Summer Studio Tour :: 2

~Someone special had her birthday~

~June saved the best for last (I was late)~

~She needed Millie's Hotpads in the prettiest summer fabrics~

~Repurposed, felted sweater batting~

~My mods: little finger pockets on the backside~

::Thanks to BeautyThatMoves for organizing the Summer Studio Tour!::

Stop by her site to find links to others who are participating.

Summer Studio Tour :: 1

knitting a sweater sleeve

on an island in the sunshine

laughter of kite-fliers on the wind.

Thanks BeautyThatMoves for organizing the Summer Studio Tour!

Summer Studio Tour

and from the files of hands and feet...

Heather at Beauty That Moves, has offered up Summer Studio Tour: a chance to share and visit our summer studios, keep up with what we're working on, what's in process. She'll be posting her view on Fridays and I will try to do the same. The idea is to use less words, just photos. Care to join us? (You'll see I posted her nifty button on the sidebar to my blog.)

But you know summer. How things happen at a moment's notice. The utter lack of rhythm. So I am being loose about it, in the spirit of summer: I'll post a summer studio entry between Friday and Sunday. Hopefully. Or maybe on the occasional Wednesday.

And what is the studio anyway? I don't have a dedicated space in my home for my work. I have the kitchen table, the counter, the ironing board, the picnic blanket. So we'll use that loosely also.

Thanks, Heather, for this new inspiration. And Happy Summer, indeed.