Come to think of it...

 

 

I found this card years ago.  Look similar to the canvas?   This one was designed by Rebecca Pavlenko & accompanied by a wonderful quote from Rainer Maria Rilke,



 

"And now let us welcome the New Year, full of things that have never been."

 

Maybe it's the bridge, maybe it's the snow coming down.  Who knows, I know I love this card.  Just like I love the needlepoint canvas (by the way, designer unknown, sorry). 

 

The other cool thing about this card was that it was meant to arrive after Christmas, avoiding that whole holi-daze thing.   Nice.   Worked for me that year!

 

On my way to the City...

 

 

On DL 1698, returning to Manhattan, I had the immense good fortune to sit next to a charming & beautiful 84 yo woman who was flying in to visit her kids, et al.   We spoke about many things.  Then she pulled out a needlepoint canvas (handy work to do in a limited space).  As we continued chatting I noticed the excellent tension in her stitches.  Now I have a trip into MI & my TV studio coming up relatively soon which will include, per usual, a side-bar visit to the coolest yarn store in Grosse Pointe (& beyond):  The Wool & The Floss,  on Fisher Rd. 

 

I bought this canvas there a few years while attending my weekly evening knitting class.  There was a  needlepoint canvas trunk show with handpainted canvasses pinned up on the board directly across from where I was sitting.   The canvas looked perfect to me: serene blues AND snow!   Haha!   I left that night with it, obviously.  Yes, I did paid for it!

    

I have been hanging on to the untouched canvas having never picked up the appropriate yarns; besides I really wanted the yarns to come from this same shop.  After watching the woman working on her canvas with such skill, I realized that my own skill level was probably less than remedial after a twenty+ year absence of needlepointing.   The canvas & yarns deserve better than this!  So...

 

This morning I spoke with the shop owner, Jean, & now have a private lesson booked (with said canvas) to begin needlepointing again, PROPERLY.  Can't wait!

Baconery!

 

This completely cracks me up!   I was walking through MP (Morningside Park), as usual, though this time on my way down to Whole Foods on Columbus & 97th.   As I cruised down Columbus, I came upon this Cafe.   Now, I am not, as a rule, much of a meat afficionado & especially not bacon, but paying attention to detail is my specialty.   Check out the address on the awning.   That says it all.  

Work continues on my website.   I love this photo, love the clean lines, the classic r,w&b colors.  When the show opens this bottle & the pills are spinning around.  Love it.

 

The theme music, String Funk, was created by a very cool guy, known only by his initials,  'bwa'.  As soon as I heard the full piece, I knew this was it!  I enjoyed working with the editor in my studio then, years ago, to piece the graphics to the music.  We literally pieced it bar-by-bar (music) to frame-by-frame (graphics).  Fascinating process, but then you know, anything creative is.  Fascinating, that is. 

 

That's it!  Short & sweet.   As soon as the site is launched, believe me, you'll know!   Remember Gladys Glover?