Beatriz Chapters 10 and 11
What’s the buzz? Beatriz learns about some key happenings of her past in Chapters 10 and 11, and Grandma Eartha keeps it cool while hoping for the best. Listen HERE or listen wherever you get your podcasts!!! Enjoy!!!!
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2022 Artist in Residence!
Patrick and I are so excited to announce the 2022 Artist in Residence at Spring Bird Cottage. This year’s recipient is Erin Cramer!!! Erin will be using her residency to design her workshop: Art as Spiritual Practice through Papermaking which she will be teaching this …
Bathtub Grottos
I love grottos – especially DIY grottos – and especially, especially bathtub grottos. In our magazine Woolgathering, I wrote about growing up with grottos and bringing Mary flowers in May – since it is her month in the Catholic church. According to my Grandma, May …
Tulip Mania
I love tulips! For me they remind me that good things come for those who wait. They also have been associated with perfect love, rebirth, and financial mania in the Netherlands. I love their colors, their intensity, and their heavy heads. They look amazing in …
April 2022: Beatriz Chapters 8 & 9
Wrap up your cookies in napkins because we are headed into the woods in this next episode of Beatriz where I read Chapters 8 & 9! In this fourth episode of the third season, we continue Beatriz’s story. Beatriz enters the woods with Circe, the …
Spider Plants in Painted Pots for Sale
Making coil pots is my latest creative therapy. Painting them with repetitive patterns adds another layer of calm to the process. Sifting through thrift stores to find plates satisfies that itch to gather and choose. I have six baby spider plants in handmade, hand painted …
Vegan Egg Twist or Challah for Spring
Growing up, my Grandma provided a bevy of kitchen certainties. Among them was bread from the Baltic Bakery. She kept us stocked with a loaf of Lithuanian dark rye (which she would slice into impressively thin and consistent slices) and a raisin egg twist (which …
Tiny Tulips
I love tulips, but Spring Bird can not sustain tulips because the deer eat them. Sigh! But I made this little illustration into a sticker/unofficial stamp for Woolgathering, our adfree, quarterly magazine about the seasons. I like making stickers because they remind me that the …
Full Moon in April
Happy Full Moon! This morning, two great horned owls flew over Patrick and me as we walked Lucy. Then, I made the best frittata with potatoes, onions, bell pepper, and garlic using JustEgg instead of real eggs. I should have taken a photo of it, …
Moon Quilt Update
It’s a stormy morning, and I am fighting the urge to curl up on the couch with this Moon Quilt and a cat or two. I did decide to build onto the body of the Moon Quilt by adding some blocks of celestial bodies onto …
Red-Winged Blackbird
Instead of slopping through the woods Planting tracks in the mud Forging through thickets Wading through streams Noticing the emergence of glorious Spring We took ourselves to the dull streets All paved and managed By teams of trucks, driven by green men Mowing, buzzing, raking, …
Joyful Raindrops
Candice Marley Conner wrote a beautiful poem, “Raindrops”, for the Spring Issue of Woolgathering that encapsulates the joys of Spring. Indeed, we have had a lot of rain (and sleet, hail, and snow) at Spring Bird during these first weeks of Spring, but the immense …
New Butterfly Pins!
Some new pins have fluttered into Spring Bird’s Shop! Metamorphosize your flare and transform your look with this small, acrylic Monarch Pin. The Monarch Butterfly Pin is: An acrylic pin measures approximately 1 ¼” x 1” features a rubber clutch to keep your pin in …
Beatriz Chapters 5-7
Grab your chocolate chip cookies and a warm sweater because in this episode of the Woolgathering Podcast, Beatriz embarks on a journey that she didn’t know she was about to take. Actually, it turns out that there is quite a lot that Beatriz doesn’t know. …