Archive for the 'Craft' Category
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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: 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 »
Happy Trails to Me
#2 daughter and I are off to North Carolina for the Lake Eden Arts Festival this afternoon.
We’ll be traveling with some good friends in a rented SUV; it’s probably the best vehicle for 3 adults, 3 teen aged kids, all our stuff and our camping gear, but I feel like I want to attach […]
Published by fromskilledhands on May 7th, 2008 tagged creativity, Craft, Change, Discoveries, Community, Spring, Traveling | 5 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 […]
Published by fromskilledhands on January 7th, 2008 tagged creativity, Clay, Art, Craft, Discoveries, Toys, Gifts, Collecting | 9 Comments »
Of Marbles, Toys and Akron’s Little Blue Santa
Michael Cohill is absolutely passionate about the history of the American Marble and Toy Manufacturing Company. He’s spent the past 20 years researching the history of Akron, Ohio’s toy industry and teaching children how to play marbles.
The American Marble and Toy Manufacturing Company was the first toy marble factory in the United States, and the […]
Published by fromskilledhands on December 2nd, 2007 tagged creativity, Art, Craft, Discoveries, Toys, Christmas, Gifts | 16 Comments »
The Hospice Gardeners
When my father was at Hospice, his room had French doors that opened onto a courtyard garden. The garden was, at that time, in transition, a fitting metaphor for that time in our lives. A man and a woman were working there, their hands digging into the clay soil. With their hands they carefully […]
Published by fromskilledhands on November 27th, 2007 tagged Uncategorized, creativity, Art, Musings, Craft, Change | 7 Comments »
Why Buy Art?
Cathy Bennett answers the question clearly:
Why buy art?
-To lift your spirit
-To expand your spirit
-To meet your spirit
-To brighten your day
-To brighten your home
-To brighten your life
-To honor an artist
-To declare your value
-To have fun
-To know yourself
-To inspire yourself
-To inspire others
-To share your wealth
-To laugh
So many reasons.
Art feeds the spirit and soul; it […]