Sondra's Story

Sondra's Story in progress.

Pen and ink on cotton fabric backed with release paper, layered with Shiva Paintstiks.

Cookbooks and Stories

I recently checked out a bunch of cookbooks from the local library and the young man checking me out stated "you must really love cooking".

Well I do, but that's not why I checked out a huge stack of cookbooks, I was checking them out because cookbooks often contain stories within their pages, not just recipes or photos of food.  He seemed rather surprised when I told him this fact.

Not all cookbooks contain stories, but some of the better ones do.

My grandmother gifted me the book "White Trash Cooking" by Ernest Matthew Mickler cookbook sometime around 1993.  It was so fantastical that I thought the recipes weren't real.

They're real alright as are the stories about being so dirt poor that if company stopped by at dinner time one extended the meal by simply adding water.

It was the stories in the cookbooks that got me to wondering about my other "favorite" how-to books.  A'yup they're all annotated, by the author(s), with stories throughout the instructions.

Continuous Writing Exercise

Prompt: Continuous Writing Exercise
Challenge: Try writing your story without any breaks between the words, it becomes easier with practice.
Next: Continue with this exercise using my sewing machine and fabric or timtex.
Photos soon.

Self-Portraits

I've been working on a new series of self-portraits when I have down time from reduxing my studio space.

You can see more about the studio redux on my other blog kbaxterpackwood! I should be done with everything in a month, that is my self-imposed deadline, and things back to normal starting Labor Day weekend!

Abandon

Are you living, loving, and creating with abandon?  If not, then why not?

Studio Redux

It's been a few days since I posted, I swear I go into total lazy mode when July 1st rolls around! Actually I've been busy working on my studio, it's an unorganized nightmare in here and I realized that it's really now or never.

So right now I'm stuck waiting on boxes so that I can empty the cookie jars of Silk Cocoons, and pack those jars away, I have something like 30 cookie jars total.  Once the shelves are empty I can move stuff from the chicken coop (it's a cabinet of laying boxes 4x8x1 foot that sits on a 2 foot base) and then bye-bye chicken coop!

Next up moving my art supplies: inks, water colors, gouache, stickles, mediums, etc., onto those shelves!

I am now the proud owner of three carts, soon to be detailed with my custom designs.

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