tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47398121435847497372023-11-16T09:55:02.868-06:00Robin Thomas: A Nest With A ViewRobin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.comBlogger348125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-7417023781725807562014-11-21T10:13:00.003-06:002014-11-21T10:13:24.839-06:00Glitter Market 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am down to vending once a year at our local paper store, <a href="http://papercrownokc.blogspot.com/">Paper Crown</a>. </div>
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I have knits, because <a href="http://anestwithaview.blogspot.com/2014/11/i-knit.html">I knit</a>...</div>
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Also I make journals because it is one of the most deeply fulfilling things I have ever done.</div>
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If you are in Oklahoma City and feel so inclined, come by Saturday, 22 November.</div>
Robin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-53756516633235262092014-11-14T10:05:00.004-06:002014-11-14T10:05:54.224-06:00I Knit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I knit.</div>
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I knit during football.</div>
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I knit in the car.</div>
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I knit all winter.</div>
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I start each fall.</div>
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I knit and knit and knit some more.</div>
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I knit instead of curling up in a ball on the floor.</div>
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What I learned on my Italian vacation...</div>
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I love Italy. The food, the people, the language, the wine, the art...</div>
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Enter every cathedral.</div>
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Take notes...</div>
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Look up.</div>
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Look through.</div>
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Look over.</div>
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Stop often.</div>
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And finally...<br />
I react to planes and trains with mucus and impatience...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">go anyway...</span></div>
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Our last day in Florence, in Italy. Coughing, tired, determined...</div>
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First stop the Duomo. Enormous and phenomenal. <br />
The dome built in by Brunelleschi in 1463 is 296 feet tall, the tallest building in Florence. <br />
It looms from every view. <br />
We climbed up the 463 claustrophobic steps to the dome...</div>
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The campanile or bell tower was built in 1359 nearly 100 years before the dome. It is impossible for me to understand how they were able to do this work, then. we tend to think we are at the top of technology, but then you see what was done nearly 800 years ago, all for the love of God...</div>
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The baptistery is one of the oldest buildings in the city. <br />
Originally built as a pagan temple it was remodeled in the 13th century. <br />
The ceiling mosaics tell the story of the bible with the risen Christ at its focus.</div>
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San Lorenzo, another Brunelleschi work from 1425 commissioned by the Medici family, <br />
the power and political base of 13th century Florence.</div>
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The cloister garden.</div>
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The bibliotheca, stairway is a Michelangelo design.</div>
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Desks...</div>
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The collection on view was called Animalia with parchment texts.</div>
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The sacristy, in the church itself, was done by Brunelleschi and decorated by Donatello.</div>
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Happened upon Orsanmichele with its ornate Virgin and Child Alter from 1338.</div>
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The paper shop <a href="http://www.giuliogiannini.com/">Giannini</a>.</div>
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Purchases were made.</div>
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Palazzo Pitti was closed. It was built by Luca Pitti in an effort to keep up with the Medici family who then bought it from bankrupt relatives after Pitti's death making it their residence. Take that Pitti! Damn power hungry Medici family. Their influence is admirable and disgusting in a way to me.</div>
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We found <a href="http://www.legatoriailtorchio.com/home.php">Il Torchio</a>, a must stop in Florence. </div>
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Nina is a Canadian-cum-Florencian who builds books here.</div>
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We kinda died...</div>
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but bought stuff just before.</div>
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stopping to watch the moon rise.</div>
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My Alisa...</div>
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a final dinner and ciao to Italy...</div>
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Breakfast at <a href="http://www.baglionihotels.com/category/florence-tuscany/florence-2/relais-santa-croce-2/?gclid=CI68l7fTscECFYSPMgodTDkAWQ">Hotel Baglioni</a>. </div>
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A very busy hotel, beautiful, not particularly helpful staff, but we were a bit surly by now too...</div>
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Santa Maria Novella.</div>
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Built by Dominican Friars in 1279-1357. St. Dominico began the Dominican religious order to help make learning and teaching more systematic. The devotion of the rosary is attributed to Dominic, a revolutionary who was canonized in 1234.</div>
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We crossed the Ponte Vecchio, the oldest remaining bridge in Florence, built in 1345. </div>
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Too busy for us though...</div>
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We followed this cobblestone street past a former residence of Galileo. He was so controversial to suggest the Copernicus notion that the sun not the earth was the center our galaxy. It wasn't until 1992 that Pope John Paul II admitted the church errors in handling his 'situation.' A statue to honor him in the Vatican was suggested but the plan has been suspendered!</div>
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Porta San Giorgio, the oldest gate in the city, built in 1260. </div>
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Clearly the Italians were most excellent at building what can remain...</div>
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Forte Belvedere. </div>
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Cappuccinos and views...</div>
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Lunch and views at Piazzale Michelangelo.</div>
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Firenze...</div>
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Porta San Niccolo, a medieval gate built in 1320s on the Arno.</div>
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<a href="http://www.basilicasantospirito.it/">Santo Spirito</a>, means Saint Mary of the Holy Spirit.</div>
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Sacristy holds Michelangelo's crucifix.</div>
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available to view for anyone who enters. </div>
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Enter every cathedral. </div>
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Enter every one...</div>
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Dinner in the Piazza Santo Spirito. </div>
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Handmade pasta, always with the handmade pasta, firm and juicy.</div>
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Back across the river at dusk.</div>
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Gelato outside Piazza Strozzi, with original torches, lamps and rings from 1536.</div>
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Robin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-37294443711597674072014-10-17T08:00:00.000-05:002014-10-17T08:00:07.179-05:00Italy 2014 Day Nine<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We leave behind Orvieto and our classmates.</div>
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We take the train to Florence and hope to feel better than we did the first pass through this lovely crowded city. </div>
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But we pushed forward and made plans and scaled walls...</div>
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Straight to the flea market. </div>
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Picked up some mail.</div>
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The always visible massive Duomo.</div>
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An art show in the Piazza SS Annunziata. </div>
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So much pottery, would love to have bought some. </div>
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The great Synagogue of Florence.</div>
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This was a hard stretch of the trip. </div>
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Alisa and I had bought been sick with coughs the duration and these final days challenged us most.</div>
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We were good travel companions. We are curious about the same things and need to the same amount of sleep and food. It was a lucky combination that began to fall apart, but we both knew that it was circumstances and not flaws in our relationship. What a blessing to have that in a friend...</div>
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I needed a nap. </div>
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Alisa covered me in her shawl...</div>
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Oh Day 8, the last one in Orvieto. Sunny. Bird calls echoing past the ancient stones worked into building blocks, through open windows and shutters. Real shutters. Working shutters. Not like here...</div>
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The beauty, the great beauty of being from Oklahoma is that we are one of the last settled places with moderate temperature on the earth. Certainly one of the last in America. Statehood established in 1907, we really have few buildings older than 125 years. No mountains. No ocean view. </div>
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People are our landscape and we have honed a lovely smiling populace. </div>
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But...when you travel, everything has texture and age. It is a most fortunate perspective...</div>
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Last day in the studio, we took it outside to the convent garden for sketching. </div>
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I tried. Of course I took on way too much. </div>
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Next time I will just focus on a single urn. </div>
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Its just fine, photography is my sketchbook...</div>
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Alisa and I were determined to take in the last quarter of Orvieto. </div>
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We walked again to the east end near the train station and veered north.</div>
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At the Fortezza Albornoz, looking northward. Pozza Di San Patrizio is a well dug as part of the rebuild of the fortress in 1527. Oh how I wish we had attempted to go in to see the spiral staircase that descends its 173 foot depth. This is one of the things you want to 'go back' for. But I know how rarely I travel, 23 years since I had been to Europe, so will I pass this way again? </div>
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One must assume not. </div>
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One must get all you can while you are there. </div>
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I wish I had gone in a few more buildings...</div>
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Walking back toward city center we passed this lovely church, Chiesa Di S. Domenico, a 13th century church built by Dominican friars, later made into a female academy by Mussolini.</div>
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Italy makes historical dead guys come alive...</div>
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Just another lovely residence in Orvieto...</div>
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A pastry shop. Meringues. Meringues....</div>
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And then, then we decided we had to watch the last Orvietan sunset from a terrace at the convent.</div>
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We sneak our bottle of wine from the refrigerator </div>
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narrowly escaping the sensible shoe steps of Sister Giovanna.</div>
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A destroyed cork does still access wine...</div>
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though a door and find ourselves on the terrace. </div>
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The sunset, </div>
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the Grek wine, </div>
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the smell of burning olive branches remaining from harvest. </div>
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A best moment, stolen, giggling, wobbly wine and dusk...</div>
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The Rock on which Orvieto sits is approx. 1 mile long by one half mile wide. Its surface is filled with structures more than one thousand years old. Alisa and I were desperate to see as much of it as we could, and gaze over its edge to the Umbrian countryside, an island among the verdant Italian landscape..</div>
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One must pass through the Piazza Repubblica to get to the main street extending the length of the city. This campanile or bell tower is unique and original to the Sant'Andrea church built in 12th century. </div>
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The market sold mostly new things and foods.</div>
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I di buy some beads from an Asian guy...</div>
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Instead of studio time, we chose to explore the east end of Orvieto near the train station to the Fortezza Albornoz.. </div>
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Originally constructed in 1359 it was rebuilt in the 15th century to protect Pope Clement I who lived in Orvieto after the sack of Rome.</div>
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It has been rare for a pope to live outside Rome, a claim to fame still for Orvieto.</div>
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We raced up the Corso Cavour back to the convent to get transport to a vineyard. </div>
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We tasted wines and snacked on breads admiring this view.</div>
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the mosaic façade of the Duomo gleaming.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.locandapalazzone.it/en/home">Palazone</a> vineyard has a bed and breakfast in a restored building, with a most deliciously designed interior...</div>
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A perfectly warm fall day.</div>
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We purchased a bottle of Grek white wine from Palazone, </div>
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which was put to most good use the next and last day in Orvieto...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pam Garrison's book constructed in Italy.</td></tr>
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This day was largely spent in the studio. </div>
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Binding the book and embellishing pages....</div>
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Painting a bag used to collect journal fodder.</div>
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Making a map of Orvieto in a little booklet. </div>
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<a href="http://instagram.com/pamgarrison">Pam's</a> above...</div>
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<a href="http://ingridpetriniskviltarochstygn.blogspot.com/">Ingrid Petrini</a> from Sweden was preparing love notes for her son's upcoming wedding.</div>
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<a href="http://instagram.com/ipetrini">Ingrid</a>...sigh...fresh, funny, talented, lovely...</div>
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Completed books...</div>
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It began to rain late that day. </div>
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It was funny to discover the California girls were excited to hear thunder...</div>
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It set the mood for a trip down into Etruscan caves. </div>
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The Etruscan community lived in Orvieto and central Italy </div>
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hand digging caves in the 200-400 BC dates. </div>
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The Etruscans were largely absorbed by Roman Italians in time,</div>
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leaving their highly efficient caves systems for us to get to know them.</div>
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In Orvieto if you own property, you also own and are responsible for the caves which you may find under your dwelling. This is one of 100s of caves mostly not available to the public. </div>
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The highlight of <a href="http://www.pozzodellacava.it/">Pozzo della Cava</a> is the well, 100 feet deep, with fresh water at its depth. </div>
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The caves were utilized and renovated in the middle ages. </div>
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The history of this city is layered most visibly in these underground labyrinths.</div>
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We laughed through dinner with young Francesca of Brooklyn living in LA. </div>
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The many days of mucus production ended in straight up wheezing through dinner. </div>
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You can buy half bottles of wine in Italy. </div>
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Morning in the studio with Amy and Pam and the students.</div>
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The book covers were part of a kit we had received while in the US that traveled with us to Italy.</div>
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After lunch in the convent courtyard in the bright perfect fall air, <br />
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He is a lithographer, artist, historian and paper marbler. <br />
And more than a bit of a doll...</div>
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We received a history lesson on paper that wowed all of us. <br />
This is his personal parchment paper book that is hundreds of years old. <br />
Each page of parchment takes one sheep and a couple of months to produce, <br />
then is painstakingly lettered.</div>
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Paper production more familiar to us started in the Middle Ages.<br />
His early example of a hand lettered paper book.</div>
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Then the magic of true Italian paper marbling...</div>
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There was swooning and gasping...<br />
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A piece I bought of the Duomo.</div>
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That night a full on multi-course cooking lesson bountiful of Orveito wine and ending with dinner service at <a href="http://www.ristorantezeppelin.it/index_eng.html">Zeppelin Ristorante</a> by James Beard chef Lorenzo Polegri. </div>
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Amy had a few questions for him. <br />
He did answer her that he had never been to the US and she encouraged him to come sometime. </div>
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He has been invited to guest chef at the White House and was being humble and patient!</div>
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He is fun and vibrant and we laughed so much.</div>
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A day spent in the company of Italian men masters of their craft...</div>
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a girl could do worse.</div>
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What was really nice was the time to get to know the other women in attendance. </div>
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That was as much a part of the trip as the art or tours.</div>
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The stories that bring people to a once in a life time art retreat in Italy is varied</div>
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and the same at once.</div>
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The intense immersion into Italy that was Day Four cannot be made concise. </div>
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I shall try...</div>
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We awaken in the Convent bed and breakfast, the <a href="http://www.monasterystays.com/?a=destination&b=Italy/Umbria/Orvieto//UMO133">Insituto San Ludovico</a>. </div>
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Built as a palace in the Middle Ages, it still bears frescoes of that time all with the loving image of Mary and the Christ.</div>
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It has lived life as a school and convent and now is a B&B run by two nuns, </div>
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although one is down with a broken leg.</div>
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Poor over-worked Sister Giovanna was at times a surly mother pointing out the curfew, at other times beckoning me with a hand to show me a treasure within the walls of her home. </div>
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The convent also functions as a pre-school. Children wearing little tunics with Peter Pan collars could be heard laughing and calling out their sing-song Italian through open windows.</div>
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Our first day in the studio with Pam and Amy. We started to assemble signatures for our book, the main project for the week. </div>
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Also began to know the other students, and we were most fortunate with the assemblage of personalities and strengths, all with something to offer.</div>
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After lunch in the convent dining hall we were off to a tour of the Duomo. </div>
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Our tour guide was Kristi Steiner of our <a href="http://www.adventuresinitaly.net/">Adventures in Italy</a> hosts. It was the highlight of my week in Orvieto as Kristi's love and reverence for the Cathedral was as deep as her knowledge.</div>
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It is all based on an event deemed as a miracle by the Pope when a Father broke open the host which then bled onto the altar cloth. The Pope commissioned the erection of a Duomo to house and glorify the Miracle of Bolsena. The building was begun in 1290, it took 300 years to complete. The plans on parchment still exist and are the oldest plans remaining today in Italy. </div>
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This nearby clock would ring the beginning of the work day, its bells still heard today.</div>
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The Bloody altar cloth reliquary is housed in the Capella del Corporale to the left of the altar.</div>
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For me the highlight of the Duomo is the the Capella Nuova. The ceiling is the masterpiece of Luca Signorelli, the Last Judgment, 1499-1504. It is rich with suffering and hope and inspired Michelangelo as he took on the work of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.</div>
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Bas Reliefs on the exterior tell the history of the Bible to the pilgrims who could not read and had no access to the bible itself, a change that has only come less than 200 years ago...</div>
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Following the tour, Alisa and I walked to the edge of the city. Orvieto sits on a rocky plateau in the Umbrian countryside, surrounded by vineyards and olive tree groves. </div>
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We took in this vista from the East end of the 'Rock.'</div>
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That evening was a wine tastings and parings education at Bartolomei L'olio. I learned more in the first 5 minutes about wine than I had in all prior wine tastings combined. I also found white wine preferable to red, which I never before had. </div>
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You can find Orvieto Classico in the US </div>
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and I know for a fact Alisa has already opened a bottle Stateside...</div>
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<br />Robin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-30025208430982690252014-10-11T08:35:00.000-05:002014-10-11T08:35:30.636-05:00Italy 2014 Day Three<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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13 hours. We slept thirteen hours.</div>
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The last time I traveled to Europe was 23 years ago. </div>
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My age has doubled in that time. </div>
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I knew I would need at least 24 hours of transition but it turns out I need far more.</div>
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Disappointment. We missed breakfast. </div>
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We only had time to shower, pack and check out. </div>
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We had to travel to our destination of Orvieto that day so we had only the briefest time for a bite and a walk to the flea market.</div>
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Quickly bought three things. </div>
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Disappointment. Wanted more time...</div>
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The next 7 hours was difficult. We missed a train.</div>
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The train station was overwhelming and not helpful.</div>
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Our bags were far too large and heavy for train travel. </div>
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We arrived at our destination frustrated, tired, hungry and in the dark,</div>
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this....</div>
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We arrive in Florence without having slept, drop our bags at the Hotel Helvetia-Bristol, </div>
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stumble out into the Italian world...</div>
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finding sunshine in the Piazza Della Repubblica.</div>
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Also cappuccinos there. </div>
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They are better in an outdoor café in Italy. </div>
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In a daze at the Duomo.</div>
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Someone bought art supplies in a real Italian art store. Just ask her...</div>
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Lunch at the Piazza Della Signoria. </div>
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Neptune and his fountain celebrate Italy's naval power.</div>
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He stands at the Palazzo Vecchio, built in the 1300s. </div>
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It was remodeled in 1540 as a palace for the Medici family patriarch Duke Cosimo I.</div>
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Courtyard of Palazzo Vecchio.</div>
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Next door is the Loggia della Signoria, built in 1382, full of sculptures in the open air.</div>
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The expressive Rape of the Sabine Women by Giambologna, </div>
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carved from a single block of marble in 1583.</div>
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And David. </div>
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This copy stands before Palazzo Vecchio, </div>
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the was original moved from here in 1873 to the Accedemia Gallery nearby.</div>
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Florence loves their David. </div>
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As do we all, si?</div>
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First, sign up for a class with <a href="http://www.pamgarrison.com/">Pam Garrison</a> and <a href="http://amyhanna.typepad.com/">Amy Hanna</a> in April 2013.</div>
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Next wait 18 months.</div>
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Then fly to Italy with <a href="http://lifeisabeautifulplacetobe.blogspot.com/">Alisa Noble</a>.</div>
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Wait...buy macaroons in Paris.</div>
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Land in Florence 24 hours later.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">When we are in Texas this is my view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I always pray a simple "thank you."</span></div>
Robin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-11537497430127703282014-02-03T16:23:00.001-06:002014-02-03T16:23:37.666-06:00Evolution of a Page<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is in my Scrapbook Journal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And tape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And then paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And more paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And ink and pencil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I finally completed Project Life 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When I am actually working on it I enjoy it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The other 320 days of the year it hangs over my head like a pendulum blade...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When December started I had completed book one, January through July.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the last 2 months I have worked to do book two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Most of my photos are vertical and for the last three years most of the kit is orientated in the horizontal format.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I have bought a lot of pages that allow for my preferred vertical pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But I will do it again in 2014, which can now start...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Started this needlepoint project, it is enormous and I expect it to take about ten years. Really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Watched my Sooners beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Allie went. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She is with her adorable cousin, Lee, from New Orleans here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Participating in <a href="http://www.lisasonora.com/blog/root-30-day-journal-project/">Root</a>, a 30 day journaling project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Obsessing with this girl and her abundant doggy ears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Figured this out...</span></div>
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Robin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-61703341522028413032014-01-07T08:51:00.003-06:002014-01-07T08:51:58.068-06:00And Another Winter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Evolution. Evolution of a page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Of a middle-aged woman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every winter I get low. Blue. Depressed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Having, in the past, recognized it as a necessary hibernation, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">as I enter it now I find myself low but not sunk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tired, hungry, unmotivated...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Depressed? Or just a need for quiet and low stimulation? Rest?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Because that's okay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A list maker loves the accounting at years end...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Made a journal with <a href="http://goodgriefgirdie.typepad.com/">Jackie</a> at <a href="http://papercrownokc.blogspot.com/">Paper Crown</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I went to <a href="http://handmadeu.blogspot.com/2012/12/handmade-u.html">Handmade U</a> in spring 2013. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Made a journal and doodled with <a href="http://www.dblogala.com/">Dawn Sokol</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Leather work with<a href="http://shesonehotmama.blogspot.com/"> Camille McClelland</a> at Handmade U as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At <a href="http://myheartsfancystampinnews.blogspot.com/">My Heart's Fancy</a> fell for <a href="http://www.homegrownhospitality.typepad.com/">Stephanie Ackerman</a> making hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Making doodles and stamps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And this Pouf with Jemellia at <a href="http://jesbend.com/">Je's Bend</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And made a couple of quilts...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Finished a needlepoint tapestry, ya' know, no big deal...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Online and in my robe I took a couple of the getting Started series with <a href="http://www.balzerdesigns.typepad.com/">Julie Balzer</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">30 days of prompts with Dawn for <a href="http://www.dblogala.com/nanojoumo2013">National November Non-stop Journaling Month.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From the master, <a href="http://dispatchfromla.typepad.com/">Mary Ann Moss</a>, the <a href="http://www.dispatchfromla.com/dispatch_from_la/full-tilt-boogie-an-online-visual-journaling-class.html">Full Tilt Boogie</a> Journal online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And Mary's <a href="http://www.dispatchfromla.com/dispatch_from_la/sewn.html">Sewn</a> class of pattern painting...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And so many journals I made.</span> </div>
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Robin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-35988369390785246582013-12-27T12:04:00.004-06:002013-12-27T12:04:48.312-06:00One Little Word!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I did it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One of the year long commitments I made for this year, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">was <a href="http://aliedwards.com/blog/one-little-word">Ali Edwards' One Little Word online class</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">My cover is from a <a href="http://a-bird-in-the-hand.blogspot.com/">Colette Copeland</a> class, the little pouch above was made by her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My word for 2013 was <span style="font-size: x-large;">go</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I had spent plenty of time with stop and be following mother's death, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">it was time to go...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The monthly prompts didn't take a lot of time but certainly made me put the word GO into my life, which is the whole point of an intention for the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Just a few pages, nothing fancy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I used a binder and clear pocket pages for this as instructed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I finished it! I went!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now time to <span style="font-size: large;">celebrate</span> everyday...</span></div>
Robin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-47771943165289664472013-12-17T09:05:00.001-06:002013-12-17T09:05:08.558-06:00Whole Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Another page in stages. I am learning to be sloppy and more free. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Definitely channeling the work of </span><a href="http://www.robenmarie.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Roben-Marie Smith</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/tinybearstudio?ref=ss_profile"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tina Jensen</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Oh the joy and beauty of this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Also this girl. This girl!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Home from sophomore year, just turned twenty, my favorite person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I gave birth to my favorite person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We laugh at nothingness often.</span></div>
Robin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-69541298095581564042013-12-09T10:57:00.002-06:002013-12-09T10:57:19.280-06:00Lists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love to make lists. I love to cross things off. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I did biochemistry and molecular biology research for 7 years and loved planning my work, researching, making the list of tasks then performing the tedious repetitive motions to complete the plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I found it all <span style="font-size: large;">oddly creative</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now with art there is no true need for a list. <a href="http://dispatchfromla.typepad.com/">Mary Ann Moss</a> talks about responding to the 'committee in her head,' just doing what she is told, without thinking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I find myself doing that now with the tearing, gluing, smearing and drawing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So where's the list?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Its in the photos of the work I take. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I get in bed at night and look at pictures of the progess for the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is akin to a list- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>a retroactive visual list...</em></span></div>
Robin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-65095475823220629052013-12-04T08:46:00.001-06:002013-12-04T08:46:07.638-06:00Creative Contents<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I put together this journal is January thinking I would do collage </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">and REAL visual journaling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Didn't happen until all at once in November. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> This is the evolution of the cover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Magazine pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Paint. Ink. Marker. Pencil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Its interesting to know when something is complete...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I kinna dig it.</span></div>
Robin Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861881566669113460noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739812143584749737.post-8234142837079355302013-11-26T08:36:00.002-06:002013-11-26T08:36:55.379-06:00Mother Goose<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This last weekend was the only show I participate in anymore, our own <a href="http://goodgriefgirdie.typepad.com/blog/2013/11/glitter-market-highlights.html">Glitter Market</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I thank you if you came and supported us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A wonderful group of friends, both Makers and patrons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I made journals and knits this year for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here is a sweet 1940s Mother Goose book I made into a journal.</span></div>
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