Art!
Many, many, many years ago, I used to dabble with pens and pencils and pastels and paints and brushes and quills to create something I thought looked nice. Others...
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I must need more RAM!
That has nothing to do with sheep. I mean Random Access Memory. I seem to be suffering from memory errors here lately, and my diagnostic software hasn’t been...
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Sweep In Plans finalized!
Before I begin rattling on about the plans, I think I should take a moment and talk about who Sweep In is for. Is it for professional broom makers that have been making...
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Sweep-In planning progressing
Sweep-In 2014 is fast approaching. The date, for those that haven’t looked at the page yet and have not marked your calendars, is April 11-13. The unofficial...
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Spring is time for planting gardens
And making brooms… Of course, I think anytime is fine for making brooms. And apparently I like cooking… who knew? And now I want to garden some, too…...
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Further forays into fermented foods
I’ve been contacted by some folks concerned that I’m taking this too far. They believe that, based on what I’ve been writing, I’m only eating...
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Fermented Foods’ Just Desserts
“If you reads it on the Internets it must be true!” I hear this all the time and what I once heard spoken as a given fact is more often being stated in...
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Sauerkraut and kefir and kvass, oh my!
Preparing Fermented Foods Yesterday, I wrote about my newest micro-obsession with fermented foods. Then I posted to Facebook inviting people to follow if they wanted to...
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Happy New Years!
I’m starting 2014 with Fermented Foods One of this first things you ought to know about me – if you didn’t know it already – is that I read. I...
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The show must go on!
In the last post, I told you how the big Arkansas Craft Show Christmas Showcase was cancelled due to nasty Winter storm that pretty much shut down the state of...
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Iced out & snowed in – weather wrecks a show, or does it?
Winter weather has got us down. The Arkansas Craft Guild’s Annual Christmas Showcase is normally held on the first full weekend of December. This is our biggest...
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Booth building
Since moving to Mountain View, Arkansas and taking positions at the Ozark Folk Center State Park, we’ve only done two or three shows a year. There’s the...
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Apologies and updates
An apology I am terribly embarrassed. It seems that I have not written a post since June 8! By now, I’m guessing that most folks are assuming that I’ve gone...
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Spinning yarns and weaving tails
Jeanette Larson, my beloved other… er, better… half spends a lot of her time at the Ozark Folk Center. But when she’s not there, she’s spinning and weaving and tending...
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Happy Birthday WordPress
The joys of WordPress I have been tinkering with computers since the dark old days of the Commodore Vic 20 and the Timex Sinclair. I’ve used Commodore’s old...
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Hunting season is upon us
For some, the fall is synonymous with hunting season. People gather up their camo, their rifles or bows and arrows and head to the woods for wild game. For me,...
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Planes, trains and automobiles
We are home! Every other year, Jeanette and I make a pilgrimage to Colorado near Christmas to see friends and family. In years past, we drove – more than 3000...
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And the year starts to wind down…
We’ve finished another show. The packing and unpacking are done and we’ve taken a day or two to put up our feet and relax (well, I did… Jeanette went...
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It’s (almost) Showtime!
The last week’s been a noisy blur. Every morning, instead of a kiss on the cheek and a cup of coffee, I am jarred from sleep by the creaky thunk sound made by...
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Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour offers an inside look at the creative process
Every year, as the weather starts to cool from the highs of July and August, artists and craftspeople within a 30-mile radius of the small Ozarks town of Mountain View...
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