our frosty creek

that lines the back of our property is such a gift to have. We are lucky to see the seasons reflect in it’s waters & the land the borders it.

Christmas ornament art project

The bird that is mostly glittered with MOD PODGED wings & tail was the idea of the Mom who signed up for the class.  I thought her idea was brilliant & it ended up that I liked her idea more then my own.  She also painted inside the black lines because they couldn’t be drawn…

light them up

a gift given to my mother-from me. They remain as they were when I gifted them to her a few years ago. They sit on her kitchen table. The table itself reflects the colors of her stained glass & the colors of the changing leaves of autumn. instead of fire lighting them, the sunlight did.

rock, paper, scissors & glass

her media choices are ever changing, her style changes as does the seasons. My mother finds an art form & takes it every direction she cares to, until she stumbles onto another. Her studio table, today, is covered in glass- bright, colorful & sharp. All waiting to be assembled. On her shelves, sit her origami…

college sits on the shelf

i grew up surrounded by books about Bob Dylan or Kabbalah or physics or Sir Isaac Newton or chess plays by Bobby Fisher. What about Dad’s Hasselblad or the Talmud? I grew up in Vermont, snowed in with three channels. I read almost every book on my mother’s fiction shelves (I read ‘fear of flying’…

wonderful gift idea for Grandparents…or anyone

I wrote these words on card stock & gave them to the children to color.  I gave ‘We’ to my youngest because it has the fewest letters, therefor less effort required.  My oldest daughter, she had to color both, ‘Grandpa & Bubbe’ & ‘Nana & Giddy’ for both sets of grandparents (Bubbe is for a…