It looks like both Dad and I have some new digital real estate.
My father is a professional photographer and now has a web site to show some of his works. I love his bear series of photographs and hope you will too. The cool thing is that he is also providing some facts and conservation [...]
Debby’s cool mint tin traveling watercolor paint set.
I stumbled across an excellent idea at Drawing the Motmot and thought that it would appeal to many in my family besides my wife and I.
My folks find themselves traveling often with my father being a professional photographer and my mother an artist. My mother, who has traveled [...]
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Johann needed a new sweater. Eric needed a new hat. I needed to reduce my stash. At Eric’s request, I made him a jester hat like Johann’s. As I was doing the finishing work on that, I threw in the left over yarn with extra yarn from 8 other completed projects for Johann’s sweater. I [...]
I’ve been watching my phalaenopsis orchid sending up a new stem and growing new buds over the past several weeks. I was very excited to see the new growth. The cold snap we had a couple of months ago finally overcame the heat created by the sunlight constantly hitting our side of the building. Up [...]
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Miss Suzanne told us about the Walter Wick exhibit at the New Britain Museum of Art, which ran from September to November. We finally made the time to go on Veterans Day. Trying to find the place was challenging, since so many roads in CT are simply not labeled. Quite often you will be on [...]
Hand-knit, 100% wool, newborn Lamb Booties
Tammy has been selling hand-knit baby socks & booties and womens wrist-warmers for the past couple of years and selling them exclusively through a local childrens clothing store in Mystic. As an expirement we have put up a pair of the booties on eBay to see how well they will [...]
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Once again I have found myself at a beautiful place one the web after a weird circuitous trail. Today I found myself at Vanilla Bicycles, a custom bicycle frame and bike builder, run by Sacha White. There was a time when most bikes were built, one frame at a time, using techniques that Sacha [...]
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Indigo TrioOriginally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
Three scarves recently completed.
Did I ever mention I love Indigo???
All three of these were dyed from the same pot of indigo. I really love the full range of blues (and even a purple sheened navy blue) that can be gotten from indigo. No wonder the Japanese language has so many [...]
Boy’s Christening & Baptismal RomperOriginally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
To celebrate the completion of the heirloom baptismal outfits I made to sell in The Blue Horse on Main St., Eric and Johann decided to give me a tea party. The food was already set. They had already bought fruit salad and I had already made their [...]
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Magenta JewelsOriginally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
When I first got a flickr account last December, I copied a few of my macro shots I took for Fred Miranda assignments over there from my Eclectic Images Gallery. One of them was Magenta Jewels. Recently I was invited to share this one in the CatchyColors flickr group [...]
