Lee Thomson

May 28
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

Torn strips of silk woven and embroidered. I love my sewing machine. I missed my sewing machine. At some point, I’ll have to return to the edges of the postcards, but this loose frayed edge thing is still interesting.

I am pleased to be home. I like handwork, but doing a postcard a day over the long weekend made me realize how much handwork is involved. I have been angsting about what to do about postcard making for the time we are travelling (England – more about that later) and I think I am going to take a vacation. I’m switching media, from cloth to paper, and I’m thinking I’ll keep some kind of journally sketchbooky thing and work on something every day, but I don’t feel like I can maintain the postcard stream the way I’d like and still be having a family vacation.

As for the rest of the weekend, Family Camp at Becket/Chimney Corners completely rocks. We did some climbing (Al summitted this once and it was a triumph, Aerin just had a jolly time messing with different routes and made it up twice),

some boating (Lee and Aerin), no swimming because the water was frigid (except Alice who is training to be a polar bear) some crafts (Lee and Alice) including a lot of woodshop

and some batik, plus a good deal of running around and we caught one red eft, more commonly known as a newt even though technically it isn’t.

You can see here the woodshop inspirations for me…

I’ll try to get some pix of Alice’s workshop output, because the messenger bird is wonderful. I have to paint the three-leg bird and then I’ll post him too. Elinor designed him, and I cut him out and sanded the edges off and he stands and looks happy, but still needs paint.

I can’t begin to describe how wonderful my own bed will feel.