Dani bought some olive wood coasters for Mike, who likes fine wood a lot.
She bought me some really fine olive oil (to use in cooking for her, of course!), so I had to buy a carafe to put it in. Anna is the name of the potter, and her place, Orviet’Anna is well known to […]
Quaint and picturesque don’t even begin to describe Orvieto! Every corner you turn, there’s another picture postcard just waiting to be snapped :-)
As narrow as these streets are (and as steep!), the cars do go both directions…and at break-neck speeds. Interestingly, you rarely hear horns being used.
The chocolate shop!
The corner near Dani’s favorite cafe, where […]
About Family Crafts
Browse through photos of home-made greeting cards and submit your own.
About.com Cross Stitch
Stitchers - Start Your Stockings! It is never to early to start on holiday projects, but don’t wait too late.
Aileen’s Musings
This week Aileen offers 2 fun tutorials: Phenomenal Paper Flowers & Wee Flower Fairies. Both are sure to inspire […]
A butterfly T shirt with reverse applique, recycled weaving and spool knitting
Here’s a great way to reclaim scraps of weaving to embellish garments and accessories
Creations from Organic Artist Paul Schick
Paul transforms twigs and more. You’ll love the earthy feel of his work.
Layers Upon Layers
Be ready to ooooo and aaaaah over Bonnie Meltzer’s mixed […]
The town of Orvieto is a fortress built on a hill, with walls all around it. Mike and I took a walk around part of it, and Mike agreed to be in the picture just to give you a sense of the scale.
There were these crazy blackbirds all over the place who lived in […]
Art Attack Thursday!
How sweet is this? And the pattern is free from the Berroco site! In fact, there are quite a number of free patterns available there which you might want to look at. And their yarn is just beautiful. Enjoy your visit :-)
Tags: fiber-arts, knitting, Wearable Art
After flying from Boston to Frankfurt to Rome, we took a regional train up to Orvieto where Dani has been studying for the past four months. Orvieto is just about dead center in Italy, in Umbria, and has the most lovely countryside surrounding it you’d ever want to see. The train station wasn’t pretty, but […]
Let’s admit it…we’re all curious about other artists’ opinions. Since we often work in sort of isolated conditions, it’s wonderful to have the world of the web available for social interaction and tip trading. Dan, at the Empty Easel has a whole category of polls.
Want to know how much time your fellow artists spend on […]
Have fun with Interactivate: Tessellate!
If playing with this cool tool isn’t enough, you can look at lots of tessellation art at the Tessellation Database. In addition, there’s always Tessellations.org …check out the tessellating frenchfries :-)
Here are two of my previous posts with ideas about how to use these patterns:
Expanded Squares
Making a digital stamp
Tags: […]
If you collect ribbon, pretty soon you know you’ve got a snarly mess, either in a plastic bin, a dozen zip-lock bags, etc. Here’s a really clever idea for keeping them all straight…JM Day shows us how!
Tags: art-storage, tutorials
Do not throw ANYTHING out!
Written by Cyndi Lavin [email] for b5media.
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