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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.