Trilla had a big birthday this year and her daughter flew her home to hear Joan Baez (who at one point lived where I live now). Of course I could not compete with such cleverness, but knowing Trilla is a book lover, I took Abby's advice from her June 28, Weave a Rainbow blog to make a gift kit from a pleasurable craft. I had loved making Neal's bookmark and happily found a design attributed to Virginia Woolf or Vanessa Bell (see the beautiful Bloomsbury Needlepoint: From the Tapestries at Charleston Farmhouse by Melinda Coss), I mailed Trilla a Comic Life birthday card with the idea, the canvas, needle and threads to sew. What I enjoyed about the Bloomsbury pieces, was that the people didn't fanatically stitch everything perfectly exactly balanced, but perhaps made up the designs as they went. Coss thought this might be a design for a pen holder or an eyeglass case. But I am into bookmarks and Trilla is a supreme reader, writer and clever friend. Comic Life is an inexpensive software I use all the time. (click on links to read more and photo to enlarge)
Your face looking back at me always makes me smile. I'm getting more and more into the "making things mode," but I do work at the computer to postpone getting started :).
ReplyDeleteDo I have a great friend and a beyond-words great daughter? Lucky woman--Trilla.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea. Lovely gift and card. Yes, Tilla, you are lucky. Linda, are you saying that Baez lived in your house or lived in Boston or Belmont?
ReplyDeleteYes, I want to know the same thing Nancy asked! Once Bob and I met Baez when we were living in, I think, Louisville or perhaps Atlanta! I can't recall the circumstances precisely--perhaps he can--but she was there for a concert, an acquaintance knew her and invited her over afterwards to meet several friends. I do think this was Louisville, in 1961-1964. Anyway, back to your blog post: SUPER good idea, and Trilla is right, you are a GREAT FRIEND and such a totally creative, amazing person!!!! PS I love Comic Life, too, and all my recipients of Comics adore them!
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