My adventures setting up a batik studio & being an artist
I’m thinking back to last winter, 2015, when we had record breaking snowfall. After a few snow days the thrill of working from home had worn off, my freezer was full, and shoveling was harder as the piles got bigger. Perfect time to bring out the next craf…
Add a personal touch to your Passover Seder with a batik Matza cover (inventory as of 3/18/2015):
It started with a simple ask, can VTJR help with our wedding chuppah (canopy)? Of course we will! And thus began my second quilt project, with Elizabeth again leading the charge. At the start:
The fun of the pattern was that we had a bunch of options,…
It took me all of 2013 to make my first quilt, and another couple of months to tell you about it. Thanks to my friend Elizabeth, I managed to turn these strips of fabric:
into an amazing quilt! The idea was to use scraps of fabric I had lying around o…
I’m an educator by training, so when I get to merge those skills with my self-taught creative outlets, it’s a bonus. At the start of June, I got an email from Meredith Hofmaier of Teen Quest at Brooks School Summer Programs, Â asking:
The result of our…
With much prompting from various friends, and a final evening of actualization with The Barefoot Hobbiest , I can now be located on the “… marketplace where people around the world connect to buy and sell unique goods.” Tell your friends!
Make me yo…
Announcing the winner of the B.B. batiks next top model contest:Â Eleanora Deborah Boice-Mallach
Clearly, she’s got posing for the camera down pat!
I recently had to get a new car. Zippy had passed the point of reliably getting me where I needed to go as well as becoming a financially not-so-sound investment. At one point I posted a blog post asking if this onesie looked like a car or a turtle (based…
Here’s my shout out to marriage equality for all (go Minnesota):