Picturesque Northern New Mexico

Here are a few of my favorite shots from Santa Fe and surrounding areas.
The views from our hotel room at the Inn & Spa at Loretto (Santa Fe):
     
White Rock Overlook (Los Alamos)
     
Bandelier National Monument (Los Alamos)
In Bandelier Monument you can take a self-guided tour of extensive ancestral pueblo ruins.  Ancestral pueblo groups occupied [...]

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Friday Folly

Pleasing Fungus Beetle
Bandelier Monument Nature Trail
Los Alamos, New Mexico (2007)

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My Bad Hair Day

Last night at our Bolton Artisans Guild meeting, Laura showed us how to do needle felting and then let us try our hand at it.
This is what happens when my polymer clay hands meet needle felting tools: My Bad Hair Day.

The hairy strands alongside the nose were originally a Fu Man Chu styled mustache but [...]

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Look for the Lesson

 
The universe tells you what you need to focus on.  It gives you little nudges.  If you’ve learned to recognize those signals, then you quickly catch whatever in your life is not in balance.  But most of us don’t know how to recognize the little nudges the universe gives us, so then we get a [...]

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Silence the Ding

I’m busy working away in the studio in preparation for the Paradise City Art Festival.  In order to keep myself from being too distracted by outside noises I instituted one new habit this week that has made a major difference in my ability to get work done.
I silenced the ding (i.e. the bell) on my [...]

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Return to Home

After a glorious week of just “being” in Santa Fe, we returned home last night around 9:30pm.  I can’t recall being in Logan Airport and witnessing such a quiet environment.  There were no more outgoing flights on United (at least in our part of the terminal.)  There were no vendors selling their wares, except for [...]

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Art Date: Santa Fe

We’re spending this week in Santa Fe, New Mexico, soaking up the sun, the outstanding art, and the excellent food. I probably won’t post much until we return home. Suffice to say that the art is very inspiring, the food is wonderful, the people are friendly, and the surroundings are stunning.
One of the [...]

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Friday Folly

Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada (2006)
Get it?

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Chakra Energy Angels-Heart Chakra

Along with challenging myself to create some larger art dolls, I’ve also wanted to create art dolls that I could potentially introduce to the wholesale market.  For me this typically means something that you can reproduce, possibly in production format, that is also relatively affordable.
I’ve also found myself inspired by the lovely work of both [...]

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Fire Theme Art Exhibit: Bolton Artisans Guild

One of the great aspects of participating in an art exhibit as a guild is seeing your fellow artisans think outside of the box; creating pieces of art that may be different from their usual work.  We all drew inspiration from different areas for this exhibit.  Here are the pieces created by some of the Bolton [...]

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