Indigo Night

Hi everyone....the last post for a little while, as I'll be at the artist's residency at Jentel in Wyoming for the next month. I hope to check in with you at least a few times while I'm there, but we'll just have to see how things go! Still running about the place gathering supplies, clothing, books as I add to and check off things on my various lists. I do enjoy a good list and if you're going to be away from home for a month, I'd say you deserve to have several lists going at once. So satisfying to cross the items off one by one.  Hoping to get everything done, but it may be that there are some things on the list that won't feel so important after all if they haven't gotten checked off by tomorrow morning when I drive off. I finished up a little piece and just added this to my shop here. This was another fragment that I have had floating around for a long time....it was just the spare, ethereal ink drawing in the middle of the indigo handmade paper that had been dipped in beeswax. Finally, I saw what needed to happen....some delicate stitching to create a border that echoed the shape of the drawing and some pin pricks to remind us of the night sky. This piece makes me think of the unnamed longing we all carry within us as we find our way in the vast universe.

Just a reminder that Missouri Bend Studio will remain open while I'm gone. I have the bulk of the shop safely wrapped and tucked away in a large plastic storage box that will go with me.  What I don't take with me can be handled by Johntimothy, my trusted friend and husband, who will faithfully keep the home fires burning.

Thanks for all your fine wishes and great support.  See you soon!