Pillow Talk
Rage Against The Machine
A really arresting image (no pun intended) Yesterday the evil corporations ruined my day. It only took one - the evil, incompetent, bankrupt communications corporation Fair Point Communications, our sole choice for phone provider here in...
How Hard Could It Be?
"Our Simple Pumpkin, Halloween 2011" courtesy of Jackie Knoch Shitemi I was missing good bread, bakery bread, chewy "artisan" bread, baguettes in particular. Like the kind you can pick up in the city for dinner and...
Art in the Park October 2011
Deborah was interviewed by Nina Keck of VPR, and quoted in this story about Vermont craft shows in the aftermath of Irene. http://vpr.net/news_detail/92191/ Thanks for the shout-out, Nina, it was a great show! ShapeShiftas hand-shaped pillows and...
Peak Stuffing
Today I plan to stuff some new pillows to bring to Art in the Park this weekend (http://www.chaffeeartcenter.org/art_park.html - booth #68). So naturally I thought, "what else can I do besides stuffing pillows?" It's not...
12 years later
The sky today is the same clear blue that it was 12 years ago. On that day, my older daughter's pre-school hadn't started yet; today she is in her senior year of high school. Today, from far-away Vermont, where I feel happy and safe, I woke...
What’s better than Etsy?
It looks like the latest thing in social media is to be social shopping. Sites where you can vend things and buy things and then tell all your Facebook friends about it. There's something called Payvment that I see go by now and then in the FB...
Ready-Set-Garden!
We are having an early Spring here in Vermont, and all patriotic Vermonters are getting ready to garden! Everyone has a garden here, from the native Vermonters who grew up on farms to the transplanted (ha) flat-landers like us who came here...
Worth the Burger?
On Good Friday, my husband and I found ourselves with a rare occurrence - both girls out, and no pickups needed until the next day. Date Night! We got the older daughter off on her weekend away, dropped our younger at the school...
Artist Arrested For Selling Pillows
A Friend I know, Diana, who makes beautiful hats, sent me an article with this startling headline - Artist Arrested For Selling Pillows. It seems that artist Jemal McClary, who works as See One, made some pillowcovers in his signature painting...
Mike Kelley, I Hardly Knew Ya
I just read of the death of Mike Kelley, a sculptor, performance and installation artist, and punk musician. Detroit-born but LA-based, he was very influential and famous in the contemporary art world. He made sculptures and installations from...
ShapeShiftas at Beckman’s Jan. 23-26, 2010
Big Daddy and the whole Armaments© family are travelling to Chicago! Come meet the gang at Beckman's Handcrafted Show, part of the Chicago Living & Giving Market, at the Merchandise Mart January 23-26, 2010. We'll be at booth #8-8081, hope to see you there!
Hollandazed
I made a perfect hollandaise for the broccoli the other night, inspired by Suzanne's beautiful eggs. (OK, Suzanne's chickens' eggs, ha,ha). Keeping chickens is very "in" these days of global apocalypse and shopping local; fortunately, here in...