Yesterday I saw a fabulously creative puppet exhibition in Newton at the New Art Center and have a few photos which I hope to share later. Today I am housebound, but from a window I can take a photo of our hawthorn tree with its little red flowers, white centers, before the squirrels decimate it. I wasn't smart enough to appreciate the tree over a maple shade tree when the town planted it (I came from the Dust Bowl); but now I love it! (click on it to see better)
Also, I want to show you the frame I made to hold Beth's needlepoint while I work on it. I cut some 1/4- inch birch plywood to fit the Work in Progress bag I bought in the Whitney Museum shop. I drilled a hole in the center of the wood, then cut out the inside with my small table jigsaw I got at Sears years ago when Joe and I married. (In 7th grade, in Amarillo, students spent half a year or semester in the homemaking area and the same in shop, both boys and girls. I have loved to sew and bake and had a motorized saw ever since.) I was not meticulous, but sanded the frame, gave it a shot of spray varnish, thumb-tacked the canvas on, and got to to work using the Mighty Lite I had bought for reading in the dark and had forgotten I owned. It is good for seeing needlepoint.
Whoopee and yahoo! I am the first to comment this time. Oh, wow, is that tree beautiful!! And I did click on it and did see it large, in all its glory. I love the frame, the Work in Progress bag, all of it. That needlepoint is going to be neat!
ReplyDeleteLove that tree! The enlarged shot just makes it all the more glorious. And, what a clever frame for the needlepoint. You are one talented & ingenious & damn smart lady.
ReplyDeleteThe gorgeous hawthorne tree is framed perfectly by the lovely houses in your neighborhood. Sometimes it pays to be housebound ( for a short while ). I REMEMBER THAT JIGSAW. When we visited you in Dallas one afternoon - our kids were little - you showed me the jigsaw and you had been making your own puzzles with it. Life and its circles!
ReplyDeleteAmazing. I've never seen a hawthorne like that. The hawthorne is the Missouri State Flower even though it is really a tree. In Missouri it is more like a bush. I guess all that rain does lots of good. The saw. Is there nothing you can't do, Linda?
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