Desideratum ...Art and Jewelry

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WISHING ONE AND ALL, A COZY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR  

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  Hi Everyone, These are a few of our present Jewelry designs.. including Lapis Lazuli, Quartz Crystal, Fresh Water Pearls ....  for full descriptions and photos of these and many more that...

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process of handknitting socks from my handspun wool the next portion of the photos decided to go in backwards of the process.. blogger has its own ideas of h...

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Making progress on the Granny Square blanket... showing 1st round in 1 colour... 2nd round with 2 colours and 3rd round with 3 contrasting colours and final black round as the attaching colou...

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One of the coolest cook books I ever discovered at a second hand book sale... the technique is called "Fore-edge Painting"... ...consists of artistic decorations drawn to enhance the bo...

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 "HERE WE GO AGAIN" from my sketchbook, pen, ink, watercolour, 9" x 12" ...started off as a grid, then was inspired by William Morris,  then vines and leaves and berries appeared... som...

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 I want to Thank all the beautiful people who ordered from us this year... all the people who looked/viewed and everyone else trying to make the best of a stressful time on earth.... It has ...

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The garlic was hung in the kitchen till it cured enough to trim off the leaves...  ...that's a "Cat Tree" over on the left... a branch fell off a maple and we attached it to a beam ~ the ca...

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 Handmade "Copper Angel" created by John Ackerson from the years we lived in St. Martins, NB. it doesn't show in this black and white picture but the angel is patinated verdigris ... the rect...

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 I love watching the garden grow... even better is Harvesting

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1st finished block... 18" square This is the process of designing the Flying Geese and 8 Pointed Star quilt... from the Start of thinking up the design to making templates, marking the piec...

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It's high time to update my blog..  a busy summer in the garden took precedence... the harvest was good and much was eaten and put aside to store for later use... since then I have been in t...

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The scrappy " 9-Patch" in the frames... love using up small pieces.. waste not - want not... my planning stage for the quilt top.. below are the steps it took to get to the first pi...

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This is the first crocheting I have done in a very long time... ...the design is from the Norwegian Designers "Arne and Carlos" crocheted Primrose blanket... I Loved ❤️ it so much ...

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Love this quote by Douglas Malloch so I did a drawing . 8 1/2" x 11" pen, watercolour it was given as a christmas gift playing around with Origami... little turtle...  fun and sur...

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Surely was pleased to have my camera at hand when the Cardinals graced us with a visit. couldn't believe they stayed still long enough to get a picture. Not the best capture as I had t...

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Little drawing of Roses on my desk on a piece of gessoed masonite, micron pen, 4" x 6"

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I thought it was about time I posted about the alpaca and wool fiber I spun up last summer (see this post for beginning of the spinning process : https://gwenbuchanan.blogspot.com/2019/05/...

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After we put our new years's apple pies together, my son, Max the tattoo artist, and I, started playing with the remaining dough and did a bit of decorating. I liked Max's "Crow" pie�...

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Sketches, drawings, playing around in my sketchbook, charcoal, pencil, watercolour, ink, whatever felt right and was within reach... having fun with Cats....

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The garlic has been hanging in the kitchen since August... at first it was lying on a large wire rack airing.. it took up a lot of space so it could not stay that way for long. tu...

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 We had so much pleasure from the new perennial flower garden this year and it is still going strong... looks a bit unruly, but I like it like that... and so does the family of Sparrows, Chi...

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 Discovered a rather interesting artifact when we were digging out an old tree stump at the edge of the barn...   a worn and corroded axe head with the tree root growing right throug...

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