Today feels like spring is somewhere closeby.....

The Tangled Skein

Try we life-long, we can never

Straighten out life's tangled skein,

Why should we, in vain endeavour,

Guess and guess and guess again?

Life's a pudding full of plums

Care's a canker that benumbs.

Wherefore waste our elocution

On impossible solution?

Life's a pleasant institution,

Let us take it as it comes!

Set aside the dull enigma,

We shall guess it all too soon;

Failure brings no kind of stigma -

Dance we to another tune!

String the lyre and fill the cup,

Lest on sorrow we should sup;

Hop and skip to Fancy's fiddle,

Hands across and down the middle -

Life's perhaps the only riddle

That we shrink from giving up!

William Schwenck Gilbert

I recently created this crown for a client based on the poem The Tangled Skein by William Schwenck Gilbert. The crown is to be worn on special family occasions and celebrations. I had such a good time making a piece knowing that it would become a treasured family heirloom.

Thanks, Tom!

Valentines All Around!

Come spend a day making unique paper Valentines for friends and family while also giving to those in need. I will donate my teaching time, BookWorks will offer the class for a vastly discounted rate and all the proceeds from the class will be donated to Empty Bowls, a NC based organization helping to end hunger everywhere. It's Valentines All Around!

This workshop is appropriate for all ages/levels, including children over 8 as long as they are accompanied by an adult.

To register or for more info- Valentines.

FUN!

dawgs

You're invited....................

to an opening this Thursday, Jan 6, 5:00 to 8:00, at Blue Spiral 1 Gallery in downtown Asheville.

I moved!

Dec 1 was the last day of my 3 year residency at Penland. I will miss being in that beautiful place and the community of friends I made while I was there. Boxes still abound, but I'm settling in to my new studio in the River Arts District in Asheville, NC. I'm sharing a studio with my very talented friend Barbara Zaretsky. She is the owner of BZ Designs and director of Cloth Fiber Workshop. We keep regular hours- Mon thru Sat 10 to 4. Please stop by if you are in the area.

The image above was taken by Dana Moore of my Penland studio at night. Thanks Dana!

in case you're in the area