x-country trip on a train!

While we’re all stuck at work my friends Sarah, Jeff & Jenn are riding a train across the country to Portland, Oregon where they will be participating in a conference, Open Engagement. They have picked up more friends along the way in Chicago & Minneapolis and have made a mini train conference out of their [...]

Watch it : Nat’l Films of Canada, 3 Shorts

I have taken a nose dive into the National Film Board of Canada archives. What an incredible offer; view thousands of films free of charge. Unsure where to start I selected from the drop down menu 1960s–1970s, my favorite decade for Canada film apparently. via Toys&Techniques who thankfully led me to this trove of moving [...]

BUFFY.

Buffy from Sesame Street, not vampire slayer. Listen to some beautiful music, see some folk fashions. I always loved when TV shows traveled somewhere. The 3rd clip (Buffy’s Morning Song) intros with the Sesame Street gang boarding a plane for Hawaii to visit Buffy and her family. They all sleep in a teepee and Big [...]

MOMS DAY.

Happy Mothers Day! Especially to my mom Bette. Here she is pregnant with me Thanksgiving 1978 in our very 70s kitchen.

& more ROPE

I made this basket. Ropes into basketry. A great time!

ROPES & KNOTS.

excerpt from KNOTS – useful & ornamental double fisherman’s knot all above : double carrick knot, animated lesson here turk’s head knot, how to tie here with really nice computer drawings I’ve entered into the mesmerizing world of ropes & knots! And now spending too much time and money at Tents & Trails staring and [...]

« go back — keep looking »