resurrection fern

ukpik : another stone faced softie

owl, snow: ᐅᒃᐱᒃ/ᐅᒃᐱᒡᔪᐊᖅ: ukpik/ukpigjuaq

in the language of the inuit ( inuktitut )

This was the last stone faced softie I made before the week of spring color and the pictures were taken just before all the snow and ice melted with the warm weather and rain. The stone face first appeared as a stepping stone for the small stone seal. The character and features that turned it into an owl just happened and were not really pre planned. This is really characteristic of how I work with the stones. It sometimes seems like they tell me as I hold them in my hand and begin to work with them, what they want to become.

The stone I used for the face came all the way from Australia from a very amazing artist and friend, Tiel.   I am so sorry to hear she has a fractured rib and internal bruising. That is really painful and I wish this little owl could fly to her right now to send my wishes for a quick and full healing.

Totally unrelated except there is a bird involved is this image of the Armenian alphabet I took from one of the classrooms that were used as change rooms last weekend for my daughter's dance festival. I am quite smitten with it. If only the english language were as beautiful.

  

melting into spring

IN THE SPRING WHEN THE SUN NEVER SETS

 

In the spring when the sun never sets

And when calm glassy waters roamed the morning seas,

Oh, those were the happy times.

 

When the birds and seals,

Lived only for playing,

Oh, those were the happy times.

 

When we would stay up all night,

Looking for birds' nests,

Oh, those were the happy times.

 

When the sun began to warm the morning air

And my sister could no longer keep eyes open,

Oh, those were the happy times.

 

When I too fought the coming of sleep,

But my dreams would win in the end,

Oh, those were the happy times.

LUCY EVALOARDJUAK

Pond Inlet

Baffin Island

My work week was so busy I only managed a short walk in the protected marsh area behind my office. The sky was true blue and the melting of the ice and snow made for some gorgeous ephemeral snap shots. 

Maybe this is tlacringit  snow, the inuit word for snow that is crusted on the surface. What ever it is called it is magical. Quick make a wish and melt the tiny little iceberg with your warm breath.

poppytalk's spring color week : robin's egg blue friday

It is blue-butterfly day here in spring,
And with these sky-flakes down in flurry on flurry
There is more unmixed color on the wing
Than flowers will show for days unless they hurry.

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing:
And now from having ridden out desire
They lie closed over in the wind and cling
Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

robert frost

Forgive me for not sticking with exactly robin's egg blue but I think blue is too important to be set such limits on its celebration.

 

blue butterfly day it is

                        

poppytalk's spring color week : purple thursday

   Here is wine, Alive with sparklesönever, I aver, Since Ariadne was a vintager, So cool a purple. 

-Keats,John

 

 

 

Loads of purple haze in my garden both real and crafted. I have been really enjoying this week of spring colors and will be sorry for it to end tomorrow.  
      

poppytalk's spring color week : yellow wednesday

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love. 
Conor Oberst

I adore yellow so this was a very delightful post for me to write.

 

 Okay I can't take credit for that last one. It is the amazing work of the artist Redon.

I have a special little "yellow" announcement but I think this post is long enough and so I will save it for later.            
 

Poppytalk's spring color week : green tuesday

In spring, when woods are getting green, 
I'll try and tell you what I mean: 

Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking Glass

Definitely not hard to find green in my life but the difficult task was to choose only a few pictures to show you. Some brand new and others taken form my iphoto archives.

An eclectic mix of greens , don't you think?               

spring color week : monday=pink

I am playing along with poppytalk's spring color week.  

In the pink light  the small red sun goes rolling, rolling,  round and round and round at the same height  in perpetual sunset,  Elizabeth Bishop  (poet)

4 stones for Chile

4 stones for Chile, originally uploaded by knitalatte11.

All the stones and covered tea saucers from my show at Craftland in Providence Rhode Island sold except these four. The money was donated to Doctors without Borders for their work in Haiti. These stones returned home and I have listed them in my etsy shop today. The money obtained from their sale will be donated to relief efforts in Chile.

kia

Is it a kamut (white goose) or tullik ( yellow beaked loon) or ugyuk ( bearded seal)???

No it is Kia which means "who" like in "who are you" because in the end I really couldn't decide. This tiny little stone creation has so much personality that it seems change completely depending on the perspective you adopt. Kia really blended in so quickly with the rest of the stone faced softie family. In some of the pictures you can even see her helping feed the little one. 

One thing for sure is that she truly enjoys the company of others. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend. I am soaking up the sunshine in doors and will be heading out soon for a long walk and then off to the big city for a my youngest daughter's first dance competition of the year.  

         

the quatchi winner announced

 The winner is K M Jones who has writes the blog astroknot. She wrote, "the South Pole Telescope is one of my favorites. The Cosmology Instrumentation group at Canada's McGill University was one of the teams that helped put this up in 2007; first light in 2008; and it is already putting out some amazing results."

 is her blogger profile: I  write, knit, cook and am a predoctoral student in Astrophysics. I'm learning how to balance my career with all my other passions, and I'm dealing with the ups and downs of pursuing such a career.

Please email me your address ( no star charts please) and your soft cuddly prize will be on it's way.