Deanne Fitzpatrick » Entries tagged with "beauty"
blue fundy and the abstract workshop
Dear Diary, here is one of the blues that inspired my latest go at the Bay of Fundy. I was coming down the stairs yesterday and it struck me once again how beautiful the colurs were. Sometimes the light is just right. Today I spent the day with fifteen women from all over, New Jersey, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Texas, Ontario and Newfoundland, and we started the Abstract Workskhop. We have two days ahead of us … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity, Rug Hooking
I brake for beauty
Dear Diary, I have driven this road to Parrsboro a hundred times I am sure. There are weeks that I have gone down there three or four times. Yet last weekend there was this tree, a tree I had never seen before. It looked like something from the Group of Seven, but there it was standing alone on top of a blueberry field in Cumberland County. I drove by it on the way down. I … Read entire article »
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Simple but Complicated….Wool Mittens
Dear Diary, On my road trip with Delia I saw these mittens hanging. I know it is the wrong time of year to show you but they are so gorgeous I just could not help but take a picture and show you them her. They are just so perfect and beautiful. There is nothing so simple and yet so complicated as a pair of handmade mittens. Look at the pattern on these. I find them … Read entire article »
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Does wool do this to you?
This post got lost last week when I transferred servers so here it is again…too good too loose I work with Brenda. She is serious and kind and lovely and she can turn her hand at anything. I am jealous of her that way…..the way she can do everything…but still I love her cause she shares her talent..She looks like this sometimes… Then last week when I came back to the studio with a pile of wool she  changed … Read entire article »
Filed under: Diary, Rug Hooking, Studio
Five Bags of Wool
Dear Diary, My friend Delia came to visit for an impromptu visit this week while blog reader Betty Heath was visiting the studio. I think Delia gives new meaning to the term” five bags full” from the nursery rhyme. She dyed me some beautiful wool as she always did. She was on a road trip so I jumped in with her for the ride. Remember those pictures of Brenda, well they got lost when I … Read entire article »
Filed under: Rug Hooking, Studio
Bay of Fundy
Dear Diary,You get to be friends with the people you work with. Yesterday Brenda and I took a ride up to Heidi Wulfraats , London Wool Farm, and I bought some of Heidi’s handspun. It was just a fun little art date, and time to hang out together. I kept eyeing this big skein of purple blue and then I hugged it, and it was mine. When I laid it on the counter , I … Read entire article »
Filed under: Rug Hooking, Small Town Life
Art and Soul Radio Interview with Deanne Fitzpatrick ( me!)
Dear Diary, I often listen to Lesley Riley’s Interviews with a variety of artists on Art and Soul Radio online. She asks good questions and gets me thinking about art and creativity. I really liked her show so I wrote to thank her for it because I do that sometimes. When I did, she invited me to be a guest on her show, and I was delighted to do. If you want to hear me … Read entire article »
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Look with Lorna
We have a great selection of Anne Marie Chagnon Jewerly at the studio. … Read entire article »
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