Collecting

Some things I found while riding my bike home from Cambridge yesterday. Except for the piece of china, which I found at low tide in Maine on Labor Day weekend. I am glad I had on my cargo shorts. You never know what little things you might come across and want to carry home. Seriously, why don't more mammals have built-in pockets? Did kangaroos get them because it's hard to jump and carry a baby at the same time?

More little things

More memories of Sweden. Frida from the bookstore, called Bok Skapet, is my stripe hero!

Waiting for Earl

It's so hot and humid I feel like my eyelids are a pair of tight vinyl pants.

The edge of Hurricane Earl should be here tomorrow and with it, cooler temps. I am half thinking of staying up all night just to greet its arrival and set off fireworks and cheer like it's midnight on New Year's Eve.

I found this picture in a neglected sketchbook when I was poking around today. I drew it when I got snowed in at my friend's house several years ago and had to stay over because the roads were impassable. It's hard to imagine such a thing could happen here - inches and inches of snow? What I wouldn't give for a snowflake to fall down the back of my neck right now!

Little things

Gothenburg, Sweden lends itself to little pictures. Everywhere I looked, there was some small, delightful thing. They even use children's book illustrations for their postage stamps! I could hardly believe it. It's like they knew I was coming and wanted to make sure I would not be disappointed.

I'm back!

I have returned from my excellent trips to Ireland and Sweden. Lots of walking, talking, looking, exploring, collecting, making, eating, drinking, and let's face it, shopping. It was wonderful to meet Camilla Engman and spend time making things in her studio with other like-minded women. I highly recommend Angela Ritchie's Ace Camps to you if you want to go on an adventure and explore a topic of interest and meet creative and fun people! I'll post more pictures over this week, but for now, here's one of the temporary collages I made with a cup I got at the flea market in Gothenburg, Sweden and a rock I found in on the beach in Strandhill, Ireland.

Something to try

Let me know how it goes!

O Canada!

I am back from my trip to Quebec City. I had lots of good food to eat, saw many historical sites - including an underground bunker with water seeping through the walls and spiderwebs in the gun holes - and had a lot of laughs with the family I stayed with.

What new-to-you place have you been lately?