Most of my projects tend to be big and complicated and take a lot of time. As a result, I have plenty of WIPs (works-in-progress): novels, quilts, me... 🙂 So I've decided to post about a bed quilt I'm making even though it isn't finished yet, because it could be a long time before it's... Continue Reading →
Dunsmore Family Art Show
At the opening of my family's art show Animal, Vegetable, Spiritual: A Family View, I was asked if I had any formal art training. I haven't. But I have a photographer for a father and a ceramicist for a mother, and I don't know how many art museums I was dragged through as a kid.... Continue Reading →
The Mystery of the Brass Armadillos
Or, Why Armadillos, part 3? After I made The Truth About Armadillos and entered it in the Tompkins County Quilters Guild show, I apparently had a reputation in the community as an armadillo lover. I came home from work one day to find a brass armadillo sitting on my door step. He was about eight... Continue Reading →
The Truth About Armadillos
or Why Armadillos? (part 2) or Inspire Me Thursday - Whimsy Back in 2001 and 2002, I spent the spring in Killeen, Texas as part of a research team studying black-capped vireos and golden-cheeked warblers on Fort Hood. I was working as a programmer for Cornell University's Bioacoustics Research Program, and having gotten severely seasick... Continue Reading →
