Archive for the 'Art' Category
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My Town Monday: A Plethora of Pythons in Peninsula
PLEASE COME BACK LATER FOR MORE PHOTOS. These skilled hands are continuing to edit and post Remember to post a comment for a chance to be a part of the Peninsula Python Posse.
Published by fromskilledhands on July 21st, 2008 tagged Art, Giveaway, Peninsula, Cuyahoga Valley, My Town Monday, Community, Hobos, Peninsula Python, Python Festival, Animals, Artists | 8 Comments »
The Python Has Landed… and Needs a Name
I’m back from a wonderful week at Blue Mountain Lake, NY. What an astoundingly beautiful place! I will write more about our amazing adventure, where I climbed a mountain—and more!— later.
Our Python is at home in front of our studio/gallery. Designed and painted by artist Stephanie Margush, he—or she?— is resting comfortably, waiting […]
Published by fromskilledhands on July 18th, 2008 tagged Art, Craft, Giveaway, Peninsula, Cuyahoga Valley, Community, Peninsula Python, Python Festival | 2 Comments »
Of Animals, Gardens and Art
Besides her family, Cuyahoga Valley artist Pat Raeder’s main interests are animals and gardening. She considers herself lucky because she gets to play with dirt all year long. Each has its season: from the middle of August through Thanksgiving, and into the new year, Pat works with clay. In April, she begins the design […]
Published by fromskilledhands on July 8th, 2008 tagged creativity, Clay, Art, Craft, Cuyahoga Valley, Gardens, Animals, Artists | 3 Comments »
My Town Monday: The Animals That Didn’t Get Away
In a previous My Town Monday post, I wrote about the story of the Peninsula Python, where a runaway python, or the story thereof, terrorized the Village of Peninsula in the summer of 1944. Folks have long speculated what happened to the python, although no one really knows for sure.
On […]
Published by fromskilledhands on July 6th, 2008 tagged creativity, Art, Giveaway, Peninsula, Cuyahoga Valley, My Town Monday, Community, Peninsula Python, pottery, Python Festival | 11 Comments »
My Town Monday: How Art Gives People Community
What do 2000 artists, dancers, stilt walkers and other paraders have in common with 60,000 spectators? Community, when they are part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Parade the Circle. Saturday, for the 7th year, #2 daughter and I joined in the spectacular celebration of the arts that just completed its 19th year. […]
Published by fromskilledhands on June 16th, 2008 tagged creativity, Art, Community, Parade the Circle | 6 Comments »
My Town Monday: Home is Where the Art Is
The Village of Peninsula, Ohio, population 602, has a long history of creativity and of independent thinking. From the early settlers to the builders of the railroad and the Ohio and Erie Canal, people in the area took risks, expanded their horizons and shared their visions.
In the late 1930’s-early 1940’s, a number of […]
Published by fromskilledhands on May 18th, 2008 tagged Art, Craft, Giveaway, Peninsula, Cuyahoga Valley, My Town Monday, Community, Home | 9 Comments »
My Town Monday: Better Late Than Never
I have learned an important thing these past few days. My Town is a state of mind. I have traveled more this past month than I have in a very long time; first to New York City at the end of April, and to the Lake Eden Arts Festival, in Black Mountain, NC, this […]
Published by fromskilledhands on May 13th, 2008 tagged creativity, Art, Craft, Discoveries, My Town Monday, Home | 13 Comments »
One World, One Heart, One Winner
Selected by the Random Number Generator, the winner is Stacy, over at The Thicket. Thank you to all who entered this drawing. Please come by and visit again!
Published by fromskilledhands on February 14th, 2008 tagged here and now, Art, Giveaway, Little Blue Santa, One World One Heart | 2 Comments »
One World, One Heart
I came across the One World, One Heart site kind of by accident. Lisa Oceandreamer, the creator of this event, describes it:
The original idea behind this giveaway event was to bring bloggers together from around the world who may never ordinarily meet. It closes the gap of the blog community and enables […]
Published by fromskilledhands on February 8th, 2008 tagged creativity, Art, Craft, Change, Passing it on, Discoveries, Collecting, Giveaway, One World One Heart | 67 Comments »
Simple Gifts
Gifts come in all kinds of forms and packages, from the flashy gift wrap of a high end store, to the wonderfully simple muslin marble bag of the Little Blue Santa. The gift of friendships old and new; of relationships that grow organically, without pressure or intent.
The process of the Little Blue Santa […]