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It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways that leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can paint directly onto leaves! What to paint? Try patterns like dots …
It’s a Full Moon in Democracy! This moon says to vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can make art from the “ghost” images left behind on scratch paper that …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can actually print with your leaf. In this case, I painted the leaves …
November 2022: Beatriz Chapters 29 In this episode, Beatriz plays a key part in the plan to capture Professor Brenton, but will the plan be thwarted by an unexpected visitor?
This letter was originally published in the 2022 Fall Issue of Woolgathering: Dearest Spring Bird, Let it be known that on this day and this day forward, I pledge allegiance to your land and to all who grow, inhabit, dwell, live, thrive and worship there, …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can make subtle leaf rubbings that reveal their delicate veins. That’s what I …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can choose a leaf that is interesting to you, and then trace its …
Hand adorned Up-Cycled Tote Bag ! I created this bag as a mechanism to cut through a messy, stuck situation, and I think it worked. You can use it to carry important things like library books, farmers market treats, or beloved knitting projects. The bag …
I have thoroughly delighted in making stickers for each edition of the Woolgathering Magazine. Each season, I get to design a sticker that resonates with that particular issue. This creative process satisfies my inner child, who had a sticker collection which she solemnly preserved in …
Many moons ago, I made some sketchbook studies of Etruscan tombs and art in preparation for painting the greenhouse murals. Actually dozens and dozens of moons ago, I visited Etruscan tombs while studying in Italy and was so taken by their zest for life depicted …
Listen to the latest episode of the Woolgathering Podcast! In this episode, I read from my novel, Beatriz: Chapters 26, 27, and 28 This time, Grandma tells Gloria about Beatriz being alone in the woods (with a cat and a crow), Beatriz and the witches …
Look! More mushrooms freshly foraged from Spring Bird’s Woodland! It is well known that woodland mushrooms are lucky. These ornaments are no different. They are guaranteed to bring good luck to their new homes! Besides being lucky, these mushrooms are: Handmade soft textile ornament Meant …
More mushrooms! This was an illustration for the postcard that accompanied the Fall Issue of Woolgathering. Maybe it’s a mushroom forest?
I have to say, there is a certain sadness that comes with the conclusion of Summer harvests. The exhilaration of growing food – of witnessing what worked – what didn’t – what worked too well (zucchini and tomatillos this year) is all coming to an …