Category: Animals

Bud is beginning to figure out how to spend time in my studio.

He usually wants to play with Fate, so I either kick them both out into the yard or put Bud in the crate when that happens.

The past couple of days it’s been warm enough for them to both stay outside chasing each other around or sleeping in the sun.  But Bud  seems to be getting the idea that he has to be calm in my studio.

Today, while I was tacking my Spring quilt, he slept by the door in the sun.

I don’t really need two dogs in my small studio, but when Jon and Red aren’t home, I’d rather not leave Bud alone in the house.  And as long as he can live by my studio rules (being calm and posing with the art) it’s nice to have him there.

The white hen comes right up to me and looks into my camera. Either she likes to have her picture taken or she’s looking for food (I imagine it’s the latter).

The brown hen is too shy for me to get a picture close up of her.  It’s too bad for me because she has beautiful feathers.  Maybe it will just take giving her more worms.

I still have some potholders available in my Etsy Shop.  Click here to see them all…

This is my fourth batch of Spring Potholders.  I made five of them, but sold one before it was done.

My Spring Potholders keep evolving.  I loved making all the swirling, curling vines and flowers. I stitched these on a cut up vintage cotton tablecloth.  The potholder on the top right even has some the embroidery from the tablecloth in it.

My Spring Potholders are $25 each.  Shipping is $5 no matter how many you buy.  You can buy them in my Etsy Shop, fullmoonfiberart.  Just click here or on the Shop Etsy button below.

Dragonflies are a symbol of change, of bringing light to a situation to help gain perspective.

Emily, an artist and baker, I bellydance with, gave me this dragonfly fabric.  Somehow, with all the potholders I’ve made, it’s the first time I really took advantage of the diamond-shaped design that is natural to potholder hung from their corners.

Once I started making them, I couldn’t stop.

Every once in a while, a dragonfly will come into my studio when I have my door open in the summer.  I always take it as a sign that it’s time to do something different with my art.  Even if it doesn’t happen that day, I know a change will come soon.

My Dragonfly Potholders are $17 each.  Shipping is $5 no matter how many you buy.  You can see them all close up and buy them in my Etsy Shop, fullmoonfiberart.  Just click here to get there or on the Shop Etsy button below.

You can always get to my Etsy Shop by clicking on the Etsy buttons on the menu at the top or bottom of my blog.  Even if temporarily run out of potholders I always have some of my art for sale in my Etsy Shop, and some of Jon’s photographs.

I didn’t know when I took this picture of the donkeys and sheep in the pole barn that there was a drop of snow on the lens of my camera. But I actually love what it did to the photograph.  The “smudge” disrupts the photo making it somehow mysterious, as does how the photo goes in and out of focus.