Yearly Archives: 2009

Chicory

8 September 2009

Chicory one of my favorite flowers

By stephanie thomas berry | Posted in Garden and Herbs | Comments (0)

dreaming white, dreaming blue

5 September 2009

I’ve been painting lots this week. Walls. Studio walls. Making them white.
I’ve been wanting to do this since my studio was built, some four years ago. A purchasing error left me with beadboard that was glossy, and thus virtually unpaintable. I should have sent it back straight away, but it [...]

Paint Out Report

9 June 2009

So I’ve finally gotten a moment to write about my experience with the Paint Out, the plein air competition held in Burnsville, NC every May. This is how the Paint Out works: all the artists arrive between 8 and 10 in the morning at the Burnsville Toe River Arts Council Gallery to have [...]

Studio Update

28 February 2009

First and foremost, I would like to invite you to listen my reading of one of my journal entries here.  It’s a very sweet mama story.  Still trying to figure out if an MP3 would be better than using Mac’s own set-up of sending a recording to iWeb.  It’ll take a little tweaking to get it [...]

Barn Dream

27 February 2009

The morning brings rain, and a magnetism to the warmth of the bed that is hard to overcome. The kids end up being late for school, which in my mind is better than being thrust into an already slow-starting day with harried preparations for school. I managed to even pack Renee and McKinley [...]