Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Folk Art (mine), tagged cabin style, Canada geese, Canada goose, decorative painting, Folk Art, folk painting, primitive painting, wall decoration on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Back in the 1990s, my mother and I had a small booth at one of the local craft malls that was part of the Coomer’s chain. Mom mostly did her own style of decorative painting (original black line drawings filled in with acrylic washes); I did a weird mix of needlecraft, whatever crafts I was [...]
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This is a sampler I stitched up in 2004 especially for the cabin-style bedroom in my mom’s house. (I’m sure about the year because my intials and date are in the lower right-hand corner.) It’s a chart by The Prairie Schooler, although I can’t provide the title at the moment. I’m still searching my chart [...]
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I was looking around my mother’s house, getting reacquainted with items that had surfaced after the holiday decorations came down. I realized how many items I’d made with a cabin or lodge look that were on display in the guest bedroom where I sleep when I visit on weekends.
Some of these things were made especially [...]
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Yesterday we were having Sunday dinner at my mother’s house with the Hooligan clan. Mom and I had been watching a Monk marathon and had left the TV on when we went into the kitchen to eat.
J.Hooligan is a fitful eater who gets up and down a lot once his birdlike appetite has been sated. He [...]
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January is doldrums month for me. Even in childhood, I always struggled through the first month of the year. I’m sure some of it was the decompression after all the excitement and activity of the holiday season; and I always suspected I had a tendency toward seasonal affective disorder (i.e., reacting physically to the gloominess [...]
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Actually, we did get plenty of sleep — once everyone settled down, including Frank the dog and Snickers the cat.
It’s become a tradition that I spend the night on the Hooligan family room futon after our New Year’s Eve revels. Last year halfway through the night, S.Hooligan joined me , which she remembers vividly. Apparently it was quite [...]
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Posted in Christmas, Hippos and Dooney, Holidays & Celebrations, The Hooligan Chronicles, tagged Build-a-Bear, cheetahs, clothes hogs, hippopotamuses, hippos, New Year's Eve, stuffed animals on January 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I described here how I was giving the Hooligan children hippos for Christmas in response to their love of the song “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.” In the end, I also decided to gift Diamondqueen with a set of swank clothes and a gift card so she build her own creature of her own [...]
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