My first solo exhibition

It has been a journey for the last couple months trying to get my pieces ready for my exhibition at the Bolinas Museum. I still need to finish a few bundles, but the hard work is finally done. I was happy to see my pieces mounted on the canvas frames. They changed from pieces of felted cloth to pieces of artwork almost immediately and now it looks like a collection ready to be hung at the Museum.

I was freaking a little after realizing that my deadline was getting closer, but I just took a deep breath and started from the beginning (of course).

The opening will be on May 4th from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition will be held until June 23rd.

Morning Walk

I love when I start my day after a brisk walk around the beach…

 

And now I have to get back into my felting. Happy Sunday!

My last show of the year

I wanted to do one more show this year, but I didn’t feel like driving anywhere and get into the frenzy of getting ready for one more craft show (don’t get me wrong, because I like doing craft fairs), but wanted to do something special and what a better way to do it surrounded by my friends who share the same interests when it comes to crafts, food and community. So my last show will be held here at home. If you feel like driving to Bolinas, my doors will be open and I will have a booth set up with my fiber and finished garments. It will be sort of an open studio, except that I will be joined by my friends with their own booths selling their hand made crafts. If you feel hungry, my friend Mirta will be offering her delicious Mexican food, so come and support handmade!

Directions:

If you need directions you please use this link. 

Please feel free to bring your spinning wheel or spindle if you feel like. There is a nice size deck where we can accommodate spinners if the weather permits.

Vendors:

Gina Alexander – Hand spun yarn, baby items

Charmaine Krieger – Hand spun yarn, hand knitted accessories

Erica Hawley – Baby items

Karen Dibblee – Jewelry Artist

Alejandra Bryant – Jewelry

Marlie de Swart - Fiber Arts

Patricia Briceño – Beesybee Fibers and jewelry

Linda Samuels – Beaded Jewelry

Sophie Webb – Prints, books, original paintings

Mirta Guzman- Food and drinks

I hope you can make it, we will be there rain or shine,

Mother’s Day in Bolinas

I just wanted to share a few pics that I took at the Bolinas Museum celebrating Mother’s Day with a Mexican touch. Mirta cooked the delicious food and the did paper cutting (which I was fascinated with) and I’m sure Elia with her magic wand converted the place into a colorful and magical space for celebration.

La Fiesta

Tamales Calientes

Mirta

Rosas

Tacos

Jicama y Sandia

Sombras (shadows)

Mariachi

Papel Picado

De Colores

Among colorful Shadows

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

~Rumi quote

Nothing Special

I spent the whole weekend working at the collective at Coastal Artisans. Nothing really out of the ordinary in my life. But I have some pictures to share, some small nature wonders:

The lupines are at their peek this weekend!

I love this spot where the Golfields are at Mountain Tamalpais where my husband and I go from time to time.

A Lady Bug

A Banana Slug that I found in Inverness.

Seaweed.

And this is Poetry, a street dog here in Bolinas who likes to hung out in very unusual places like the top of a phone booth, or anything high enough where he can oversee what’s happening in town.

Roving update and a funny gull story

I’m updating my Etsy store with new Merino/Bamboo roving. The colors are beautiful and the roving is really soft.

The first to show is Eastern Egg Hunt and is a blend of 60% merino and 40% bamboo.

Pinwheel. Same blend of Merino/Bamboo

Purple Trance. Merino/Bamboo blend.

Salt marsh. Merino/Bamboo blend

Coral Reef. Merino/Bamboo blend

Now, here is my gull story:

This morning I had my wool outside and all my camera setting, when I saw a gull very curious watching me.

Eventually, the gull got closer, and closer…

Wanted!

I had to go inside the kitchen for some tape I needed to fasten my background to the table and ZASS! The gull takes off with one of my beautiful roving! I just couldn’t believed it! That sucker! It took me a while to react. Should I be mad or laugh?  I couldn’t but laugh. Keith says that they make their nests with seaweed. Well this little sucker will luxuriate in a bed of bamboo and supersoft merino roving.

Mount Tamalpais

Earlier this week my dear friends Charlotte, Elia and me, went for a hiking at Mountain Tamalpais. We couldn’t planned better. The morning was just wonderful. I don’t do very well with the cold wind, but that morning was perfect.

So we sat, and had a picnic breakfast  in front of a magnificent view. Charlotte made an egg salad and some bread. I swear, I was the best egg salad I ever had before.

The sun gently welcome us with a nice warm greeting in our backs. We didn’t want to get up and continue with our hiking! We realized that was ok to just sit and enjoy the moment…

We will go back again when the lupines start blooming. Meanwhile, enjoy these pictures…

Finally, alpaca roving dry

I was able to get some of the roving dry today. Tomorrow we’ll have another sunny day (apparently) and the rest of the roving will get dry.

I feel that I got something accomplished today. I really pay attention at how the roving gets dry because it starts to fluff up and the true colors slowly shows up.

I will be posting the roving next week in my Etsy store. Stay tune…

Meanwhile, when I was removing a batt from the drum carder,  I realized how much it looked like cotton candy…

On my way to my working studio I had to stop to this place and get my camera ready. I saw some Canada Geese wandering in the field trying to find some earth worms to feed on.

And having a good time…

Fiber on hold!

Well, I have three pounds of alpaca roving drying  for the last week! It has been raining so much lately that I need to have everything inside. It’s going to be a while before we get some sunshine again. I’m actually very grateful of our rain  this time since our town has been on  a water rationing since January 28th, and we are allow to use no more than 150 gallons per household.  Our water reservoirs are way below the normal levels and we hope we can last with our water supplies until the next rain season. So, we are loving our rain now! Bless our rain!

Did you know that:

Gallons Used – Conventional	Gallons Used – Low Flow/Water Saving
Toilet Flushing  5-7 gallons per flush	1.5 – 3.5 gallons per flush
Shower  7-10 gallons per minute	2-4 gallons per minute
Bath  36-50 gallons
Laundry  45-50 gallons per load	12-17 gallons per load
Dishwasher  15 gallons per load	7 gallons per load
Dishwashing by hand  30 gallons  (tap running)	5-10 gallons (tap not running)
Brushing teeth  10 gallons (tap running)	1-3 gallons (tap not running)
Garden Watering 630 gallons (1/2 inch hose running at 60 lbs per sq. inch for 1 hour) 1,020 gallons (5/8 inch hose running at 60 lbs per sq. inch for 1 hour) 1,860 gallons (3/4 inch hose running at 60 lbs per sq. inch for 1 hour)