Summer days....

Amidst packing, purging, sorting & moving I managed to find
some time to color my little bird in finally.

The Listening Bird 

And here are some of the ways I've been keeping cool this summer:

Exploring local creek beds. 

 There seems to be an endless supply of them in upstate NY.

Summer Evening

Work in Progress

LISTENING BIRD 

Drew the likeness of this little fellow recently. 

I have plans to transfer this design onto fabric soon.

Have you heard of the new sun printing dye by Lumi ?

You really should.

 (I will post some pictures of my experimentation & progress as I go!)

Rejuvenation

For a few days this week, Mr. Ryan & I went camping in the Adirondaks.  Deemed Land of a Thousand Lakes, by the Native Iroquois Indians, and only a couple hours away in the car, it truly is a magical place.  Last year we discovered a beautiful area, down a long dirt, on a branch of the Sacandaga River, with a secluded camping spot under long needle pines.

And this past week we went back to find it again. 

A much needed de-stresser for me. I could feel the calm returning to my

body while resting on the forest floor, tucked in our tent, far away from the computer 

& the buzz of humanity.

We arrived at Mud Lake, just as a storm was about to roll in. 

But it was a much welcomed shower with the heat & high humidity.

Built From a Dream

These rings were conceived in a dream I had, a little more than four years ago. I wrote it down because the image & setting of them were so beautiful, and then when I woke up I knew that I'd need to recreate them one day. Fast forward to a couple months ago; I was approached by a friend who is curating the wall space at an amazing summer theatre in Franklin, NY, to submit a piece for a "Marriage" themed show.

These seemed like a good fit. So I built them finally.

Sterling silver rings that each carry a petite, thin, tapered beeswax candle.

For you & me. 

Bodrum, Turkey

"Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. 

The least we can do is try to be there" 

~Annie Dillard

In The Studio.....