As we wrote in this blog last year, the Fourth of July is Lee’s favorite holiday. Besides celebrating our country’s birthing process it’s that time when he reflects on the year just past. This year we are doing our reflection in pictures. It has been a year of great delight, friendship, health and gratitude. […]
Celebrating the Last Bag and Empty Hangers
It has been two years since we participated in the East Mountain Fiber Farm & Studio Tour. And, WOW!, are we glad the dates worked for us this year. The Tour occurred this past weekend and it was a smashing success. In preparation, Lee and I turned my fabric design studio into a Pop Up […]
The Rest of the Fiber Tour & Welcome A Newborn Alpaca to the World
This week’s blog will focus on the artisans to be found at stops 4, 5, and 6 of the East Mountain Fiber Farm & Studio Tour, which is this coming weekend June 11 and 12. Get your map here. Stop 4. The Woolshed at Maple Winds Farm This stop on the fiber tour is […]
Soigné d/b/a Slow Fashion
This weekend one of our sons, Chris, who did his culinary training at Le Cordon Bleu and has worked in fine dining restaurants in NYC, Boston and Girona, Spain explained the subtlety of the wonderful French verb “soigné(e)” to distinguish between fine dining restaurants and excellent restaurants. Fine dining restaurants are staffed, physically designed, and completely orchestrated […]
Finding Whispirit’s 2016 Groove
All of us at Whispering Spirit Alpacas are concluding a much needed break over the winter holidays which graced us with travels to Spain & France, time with parts of our family and opportunities to ponder ideas for our Whispirit 2016 creations. Traveling gives us a great chance to change our rhythm, take in […]
Just Like a Spider
Through the summer and into the fall the spiders work overtime to decorate our house with complex webs. By the time Halloween comes around, we look a bit ominous. I find something fascinating about spiders and their earnest and dedicated work. Today while enjoying an unusually warm fall day outside the loom room, we […]
