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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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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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Folk Art (mine), Looking Back, Sheep, Thanksgiving, tagged 1963, assassination, Jack Kennedy, JFK, John F. Kennedy, November 22, President Kennedy, Sheep, Thanksgiving on November 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Every Baby Boomer has their story of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy: where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news.
I’m a Boomer as well, so of course I must share my story:
November 22 fell on the Friday before Thanksgiving that year. In grade school we had to sell [...]
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Posted in Folk Art (mine), Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, tagged 1950s, 50s, beggar's night, craft project, Halloween, Mickey Mouse, tiger costume, vintage Halloween, vintage photos on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
My mother and I were talking over the weekend about what was my first Halloween costume. She said she thought it was the tiger suit she made for me (see photo above, circa 1958). I said I wondered if it was the Mickey Mouse costume my brother’s wearing in this same photo. I don’t remember actually dressing [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Folk Art (mine), Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, Needlework, hardanger, tagged 1950s, altered art, altered masks, banner, black cat, Cincinnati, East End, Halloween, hardanger, masks, memories, vintage Halloween, witch on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I was born in 1954, so my earliest Halloween memories come from that decade. We lived upstairs of Grandma and Grandpa in a small two-family house in the East End section of Cincinnati. The outside stairs that led to the door of our flat were too rickety to be climbed, so beggars (as they were often called [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Folk Art (mine), Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, tagged crafts, decorative painting, foam pumpkins, Halloween, pumpkins, scottie, scotties, scotty, sheer aggravation on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Simulated pumpkins have been around for a few years now, but only recently did I realize you can actually carve them. The idea of a “permanent” jack-o-lantern doesn’t really appeal to me, and I adore real pumpkins; so I’ve been pretty lukewarm toward the proliferation of polyester pumpkins (or whatever they’re made out of).
This year, though, I’ve [...]
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