Yesterday morning after breakfast downtown, my husband and I stumbled into the Winter Market. The usual gang of veggie and flower sellers weren’t there, but the coffee place was as popular as ever. Bloomington’s market had an end-of-year hurrah by having many local artisans set up shop for the day. There were Tuba Santas and [...]
Archive for November 2008
The Farmers Market turned Winter Market
November 30, 2008The beginning of stained woods
November 25, 2008I didn’t start out staining wood–I painted it. The first piece I did was a raw wood toy chest-type thing. It was the first time I realized that I needed a creative outlet to offset work (and sometimes life). The pattern is a takeoff from a school assignment where we had to draw [...]
DC Star
November 13, 2008I think I’m getting this one worked out. I worked on a sample version on a warped pine trivet that I had lying around. I snapped a few pics to show the process if anyone is interested. I’ve already changed my mind, and it no longer fits on the 9 inch square that I was [...]
A new trivet idea
November 8, 2008I’m thinking about star patterns. I took a picture while I was working in DC this year, and I can’t seem to shake the image. Where else but DC would I take a picture of an interesting star pattern? We were walking around The Mall in our few hours of free time before starting our [...]
The drum project
November 4, 2008While I wait for the coffee to kick in, and the lines at the polls to go down, I can blog. This summer my husband and I decided to build a drum for him. We took an oversized floor tom (or maybe it’s a small bass drum on it’s side) and made it into our [...]
