Dispatch: The Quilted Print at Frogman’s Print Workshops
We had a great time teaching our workshop The Quilted Print at Frogman’s Print Workshops, held at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. This week long course covered woodcarving and printing on fabric, basic machine sewing techniques, crochet, and related! To see a summary of the course and some materials provided to students, check out […]
We’re Moving! – Why are you not surprised?
“Once you’d resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.” ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle “Moving” blog posts have become quite a familiar topic on our site. Blake and I started out in disparate places, he in Iowa (the blue) and I in Georgia (the pink.) All of the orange markers in […]
More about Bowling Green, and a white-knuckle roadtrip
So, folks: as promised here’s the skinny on the new gig and our odyssey over the week. I’ve been in the interview process for the last few weeks. Because the job begins in January, interviews had to be conducted via Skype, without the usual on-site second interview. As a result, I still haven’t been up […]
Different Strokes: 45 Images Exhibiting the Evolution of Blake’s Drawings
I’ve posted many times on here about my own drawing practice, so I wanted to share some of Blake’s work with you. We draw in very different ways. I will do a 100 drawings in a hot panic, scribbling out elusive visions and quick marks before I have a chance to second guess myself. Blake […]
Quarter Mania and Nantucket Reds
At Maple Lanes in Cedar Falls, Iowa, they have a bowling special known as Quarter Mania: $6.00 shoes charge with quarter games, quarter draughts and quarter hot dogs. An excellent way to spend an evening! We spent a few hours there earlier this week with some of Blake’s friends since High School and Blake’s brother and his […]
Car Show, Giant Pork Tenderloins and Other Adventures in Cedar Falls
Blake and I have been visiting in Cedar Falls about a week now. Looking through our photos (and at our tummies,) it looks like we’ve been spending most of that time eating!! We’ve also been visiting with friends and family, embroidering screen printed T shirts to sell and enjoying the local Sturgis Falls festivities including […]
Flashback: Digital Sketchbook
Blake and I are currently “on the road” for our yearly summer travels. We’re staying in Blake’s hometown this week, Cedar Falls, Iowa. We will be taking off for Vermillion, South Dakota on the 27th, where we will spend the next three weeks. We were planning on taking a camping trip after that into the […]
Great Aunt Jean’s Most Famous Holiday Ensalada
I can’t have the holidays without eating some of my Great Aunt Jean’s Brunch-time Spinach salad with strawberries and bananas, and Thanksgiving with the Sanders clan in Marian, Iowa was no exception. I came full force with this salad that instantly erases the guilt of those 5 pieces of pie you just swallowed in one […]