Scarborough Public Library Textile Day

Scarborough Public Library - 'The Starry Night'  needle felted sweater

I will be doing a needle felting demo next Saturday at the Scarborough Library's 3rd Annual Textile Day. This will be felting in an 'applique' fashion. Here's a picture of my work - a sweater that I started a while ago. I will also have felted mice, mittens, and art prints at my table.
If you are interested in felting mice, I will be teaching a class at PortFiber in April - just check their website. PortFiber is a fiber artist's haven in Portland.

For the record, yesterday was Snow~Day #5! I might be in school in July at this rate! 

Kikiriki.... Cock a Doodle Doo

My Chicken Mittens have found their way into this lovely Treasury: I believe that the title "Kikiriki" is the sound a rooster makes.

Other items in the Treasury list

Duck, Duck, Goose ... now a print

'Duck, Duck, Goose' © (see that?!)  Genevieve Keller

I am enjoying a week off from teaching... my studio has felt like a comforting nest this week. I finished painting 'Duck, Duck, Goose'. Prints of the original are now available in my Etsy shop.

Today I put 'watermarks' on all my prints. The reason for this is that I found my 'Olive Ewe' image is listed on a tattoo board on Pinterest. (If you are curious, search 'Olive Ewe' on Pinterest). It's creepy that someone would steal my image and make a tattoo of it. Frankly, I also feel that that was a strange choice for a tattoo. I guess this is a 'wake-up' call, though I have always written that my work is copyrighted. On to new work. As spring is somewhere around the corner, I'm feeling a call for some botanical work.
  

Snow Day #4... and Valentine's Day!

We were perhaps in 'blizzard' conditions yesterday and school let out early. Today is a Snow Day, a Friday before vacation, and it's Valentine's Day. Wow.

Right now it's snowing sideways. So I'm hunkered down in my studio listening to 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' on cd while finishing up a little painting I'll call 'Duck, Duck, Goose'. This is the life for me... Happy Day to you.

Snow Day #3 ... a day of felting

Today was a lovely SNOW~DAY! I spent the day needle felting mice, stoking the woodstove, and getting a few chores done. I shoveled a path to the chicken coop and dug out the mailbox. Winter has settled in once again. As I sold a mouse at the opening of 'After Hours' - the MAEA show at the Saco Museum, I have been making a replacement. I hope to drop her off at the museum this weekend.
Would you like to needle felt a mouse? Great news! - I will be teaching a class in needle felting these wonderful creatures at PortFiber in Portland. This will be a 2 part class: Saturday April 19 & Saturday April 26. 10:00 - 12:30 both days. Check out the PortFiber website, look under 'classes & events'. I hope to see you there!