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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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                              This was a demo for pinch pots and burnishing for my Owens class. The photo is crooked and it makes me a little…

  • Make 5: Fobot Fun.

    Today’s “make” is a fobot. I have lucked into an art group and we met again today in a big sunny artspace to make stuff together.…

  • Make 4: Steampunked my switchplates.

      The fam has decided that we need to do something interesting with out bathroom. When the kids were younger I had wallpapered it with big…

  • Make 3: OK, so they aren’t all going to be awesome, lol.

    There was an ugly, yellowed, heavy plastic tape dispenser in a box of junk I bought at an auction. By the magic of art I…