Click here or on the Support My Blog  button at the top and bottom of my Blog to donate.  And thank you. From the beginning my blog has been about showing, writing about and selling my art.  But since 2008 when I first started it,  my art has expanded from working with the repurposed fabrics that so many of you generously send me to taking pictures, videos and writing about my life, the animals on the farm and most recently my walks in the woods. When I first started taking my Monday Morning Video I planned on doing it for one year.  Nine years later I’m still d ..read more

  Fate and Bud resting on a more sunny day I didn’t get to my studio today.  I volunteered at the Cambridge Food Panty this morning, helping to pack up bags for the Backpack Program.  It’s provides breakfast and lunch for kids for the weekend. Then I packed up my Meditation Tree and My Cat Pillows and got them in the mail and did some of that dreaded paperwork. I had a follow up with my doctor about my ear infection, which I’m glad to say is all healed. By the time I got home it was time to feed the animals and I decided to take a walk in the woods.  Even if I went to my st ..read more

This is the Shagbark Hickory I always visit in The Orphaned Woods.  With the help of the rain, we made music together. The post Making Music With The Shagbark Hickory appeared first on Fullmoonfiberart.com ..read more

The flower on a stalk of grass The woods are green again.  Not up high, but low to the ground. The raindrops are big and heavy.  They splat loudly on and around me. Marsh marigolds with yellow buds, perfectly round hummocks sprouting grass like sunbeams, wild mustard, the spotted leaves of Trout lilies and hundreds or thousands of tiny stems and leaves. There’s a hollowed out bone, like a sacrifice, nestled in the moss on a rock.  The underside is smooth and the top chiseled by rodent teeth. It’s been there long enough to leave an impression in the moss. The chewed bone on the r ..read more

I’m a bit behind on posting my progress on my Blue Bailing Twine.   A couple of days ago I wrapped the top of the post with twine thinking I’d weave a backing behind the bone. Then I found the old rusty hacksaw blade in the barnyard and decided to weave that into it too. I could have been cleaning up my studio, but it was so warm and sunny out I was looking for an excuse to spend some time outside before Bellydancing Class tonight. And weaving the twine was a good way to move on from working on my Meditation Tree and the Cat Pillows.   Zip helping out The post Blue Bailing Twine ap ..read more

White Hen and Merricat I often throw vegetable scraps over the fence for the sheep, donkeys and hens to eat. This afternoon it was just some hay I raked up from the barn floor.  But White Hen wasn’t taking any chances on missing out on something good.  And Merricat didn’t  mind her nosing around while she ate the last of the hay. The post White Hen And Merricat appeared first on Fullmoonfiberart.com ..read more

  Bud is so much like a cat and Zip in particular, like Jon, I often get their names mixed up.  They both have that Jekyll and Hyde thing going, where they can be sweet and snuggly one minute and killers the next. Bud, also like a cat,  seeks the warmth of  sunlight.  In the morning he moves around the livingroom with the sun. The post Bud Like A Cat appeared first on Fullmoonfiberart.com ..read more

Bud runs to the fence behind my studio and barks.   Lulu lifts her head ears up.  Constance lets out a baa and Kim is ready to run. Bud is barking at Zip who is calmly making his way from the marsh toward the barn.   His shoulder blades move up and down and his paws feeling the earth beneath them. His tail is hanging down then curls up floating just above the ground. I don’t know all the boundaries of Zips territory. I’ve seen him go as far as the front porch on the west side of the farm. He drinks from the pond on the east,  hunts in the marsh on the north, and slips unde ..read more

Our compost this morning Our compost was particularly pretty this morning. I think it was the dried up blue berries that I tossed in after breakfast that added just the color it needed. The sheep and donkeys get some, like the blueberries and apple cores.  The teabags and banana peels go into the composter outside. The flowers help too. Jon’s been buying them to photograph and when the petals fall from the stems it all goes into the compost. Actual that’s just what the compost looked like to me this morning a colorful bouquet of flowers.  It would make a good jigsaw puzzle too. The p ..read more

I’m as close as I can get to my Meditation Tree.  So close I can barely see her. So, when I finished sewing the backing and tacking with some beads around the Earth Energy Spiral, I rolled out my yoga mat and sat in front of my Tree. I found myself looking first at the tree then what was happening beneath the tree.   As if two different things were going on.  The spiral an interior grounded space. The Tree reaching up to the heights of the sky. I felt the spiral at the base of my belly and in my root chakra. When I looked a the tree I thought of the Turkey Vulture I watched yes ..read more