Wet donkeys The rain is a deafening crowd on the tin roof of the pole barn It’s layered with the screech of barn swallows More like bats than birds they swoop expertly between the posts circle the inside of the barn flying low over my head and are gone All this louder than the thunder that rumbles my insides The post Rainy Morning Notes From The Barn appeared first on Fullmoonfiberart.com ..read more

The ironing board in my studio with the fabric and tools I’m using to work on my Bird and Tree fabric painting. The post Still Life From My Studio appeared first on Fullmoonfiberart.com ..read more

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gifts from Emily (I’ll return the book after I read it.  She was sure I’d enjoy it and if you can judge a book by it’s cover….) “Like you, I HAVE good friends, and they help me BE a good friend. Funny how that works!” Jill left this message on my blog after buying “Happy” magnets for her friends. There have been times in my life where I was actively looking for friends. When I was younger, but also as an adult.  When Jon and I moved to Cambridge from Hebron, which is only 15 minutes away but a whole different reality, one of the things I was looking for was community. I used to think ..read more

Fate is joyfully running around the sheep on this cool spring morning.  The sheep are grazing in the north pasture with the farmhouse, my studio and the barn behind them. The maple on the right, with lots of dead branches yet still sprouting leaves is the one that inspired  my new fabric painting. It’s one of the trees I see out my studio window as I sit here writing this. The post The North Pasture appeared first on Fullmoonfiberart.com ..read more

I don’t know what inspired me.  Maybe it was the change in the light.  But suddenly everything in my studio looked like some worthy of taking a picture of. I’ll post all the photo’s I took in the next few days and keep posting them if I decide to take more. Above is one of my first practice “Flying Vulvas“, a stack of pink and white doilies, and yarn from one of my first sheep, Tess,  that Suzy hand spun. It all hangs next to the window and above the table in my studio where I put my laptop. Interestingly, I feel like all the still life’s from my studio will create a Portrait o ..read more

Shipping out my ” I Have the Right to be Happy” Magnets.  Each person gets a Zip thank you card with their magnet. “I’m looking forward to giving these to college students I mentor.”  Joanne wrote me.  She bought ten of my “I Have the Right to be Happy” magnets. I spent the morning sending out lots of magnets and the Potholders I made last week.   I was surprised at how many people bought more than one magnet.  They got them as gifts to give to people who they thought could use the message. Jill wrote, “I counted up all the folks (meaning women) who need to be reminded ..read more

Lori up front, with Constance, Asher, Merricat and Kim behind her. I let the sheep out to graze and fifteen minutes later they come back in the barn.  The sun is hot and they’re not used to it yet. They stand in the shade of the barn, heads hanging down, or sit  breathing heavily. I can see their stomachs moving with their breath. I’m spreading manure from the winters pile around the barnyard.  I scrape the top of the pile, underneath it’s heavy and wet from all the rain.  But the top layer has already dried in the sun.  It’s light enough so that when I throw a shovelf ..read more

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I’m seeing that whenever I’m working in the gardens, as long as Jon isn’t around,  Zip shows up.  He loves the stone walls where the mice, chipmunks and snakes live. I wish I could tell Zip which animals he’s allowed to hunt and which ones I’d rather he didn’t.  But it doesn’t work that way. Anyway, it seems to me that whenever humans try to “fix” the natural world, they usually end up making things worse. The post Zip In The Garden appeared first on Fullmoonfiberart.com ..read more