Source: louhallceramics.blogspot.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: google.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: culturame.it via Margaret on Pinterest Margaret O’Rorke describes sitting in her garden and showing a friend a vessel she had made, holding it up to the light, and being struck by the beauty of the translucence, and wanting to pursue [...]
Margaret O’Rorke(b. 1938): Incorporating Light and Water Into Clay
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Smiling Blue Skies: Susan Beber and the Human/Animal Bond
January 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
2011 brought the delightful Suzi Beber, founder of Smiling Blue Skies Cancer Fund for curing canine cancer, into our world here at Nutmeg Designs. As she writes eloquently in the Story of Blues, Blues was a canine guardian angel as Suzi recovered from brain injury, a companion who could look into her eyes and [...]
Little Christmas Eve and The Festival of Christmas by Mary Hinderlie, Edna Hong and Floy Dalton: Mid Century Advent
December 23, 2011 By 2 Comments
When I was 7 or8, our next door neighbor, Mrs. Firth, gave me a booklet called The Festival of Christmas: A Book of Days, written by Mary Hinderlie and Edna Hong and illustrated by Floy Dalton in 1954. Every year I would get it out at the beginning of advent to follow day by day, [...]
Stephanie Kwolek and her Bullet Proof Fiber in Honor of Ada Lovelace Day, 2011
October 13, 2011 By 5 Comments
October 7th is Ada Lovelace Day, and the Finding Ada Project. Ada Lovelace worked with Charles Babbage on an Analytical Engine in 1842, and Lovelace wrote something akin to the first programs for this forerunner of the modern computer. Ada Lovelace Day was founded in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson, a social technologist, journalist and writer [...]
Words Engraved in my Heart: The Goodness of Friends, Commissions, Art and Spirit
October 4, 2011 By 10 Comments
Friends and clients Suzanne and Gary Halstead commissioned me and Stratoz to turn the 9 Fruits of the Spirit into mosaic signs. In April, 2011, all four of us gathered in our basement to pick out sheets of glass, and talk colors. Wayne Stratz designed the lettering, cut out the letters, ground the edges. [...]
The Last Day as Important as the First: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
September 30, 2011 By 5 Comments
September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and I wanted to make a special mosaic in honor of my sister-in-law Gail and my friend Lynn Lunger, who are both Ovarian Cancer Survivors. Teal is the color of Ovarian Cancer Awareness, and it is an apt color, since it changes from blue to green depending on [...]
Magic Inside: Phillip Lloyd Powell’s Door, and a Tool Set for a Girl
September 1, 2011 By 1 Comment
Imagine coming upon this door! What world of the imagination did it come from and were does it lead? Stratoz and I were at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA this weekend, and amid the Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings we saw Phillip Lloyd Powell’s Door and Surround. I sat down on a bench [...]
Enjoyment as a Gift for Our Hearts
August 9, 2011 By 4 Comments
Once a year, Stratoz goes on a silent spiritual retreat at the Jesuit Center at Wernersville, and last year he took this photo of beautiful orange stitchery, and this slip of paper proclaiming, Enjoy! It is God’s will! What a surprising admonition! I have heard “God’s will” invoked as involving sacrifice, or doing something painful, [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Circles for Life Pin from the Topsy Foundation, South Africa
August 3, 2011 By 9 Comments
Tinyiko Sewing Project from the Topsy Foundation More Wordless Here.
Creative Couple: Joy of Collaboration in the Art Studios of Nutmeg Designs
August 1, 2011 By 6 Comments
Yesterday was Stratoz’s birthday, and he asked me to take a photo of him in our front yard, by the brand new Sunflower, holding a sheet of glass destined for a lizard stepping stone for Snowcatcher. Gardens and glass are two of Stratoz’s favorite things, so this is an apt portrait, and also the final [...]
