this week I hosted a small cohort in my home to learn basket weaving from local elder, Robin Leehouts, whom I learned from in the past at the local weaving center. We had a wonderful time learning the basic techniques and created very unique baskets from one another based on the same training.
Studio for the week
It’s maple sugaring season again—quickly becoming my favorite week of the year, and here is my studio for the week. The quiet snowy forest, the softly dripping buckets, the bears and the first spring greens.
This week I teach my first ever sauna class. I am so excited, I am so terrified.
finished syrup 2023
Brooms for Hedge Meadow
New batch of spring inspired brooms flying off to Hedge Meadow, a new apothecary in Mazomanie WI. Excited to be working with my awesome rural neighbors!
Hat Making
today I started learning hat making from an elder through the Becoming an Outdoorswoman winter meeting in Stevens point, WI. This hat was sourced from a North Dakota coyote from this last year, and it’s incredible how soft and thick the fur texture is compared to the coyote pelts I have at home. I really enjoyed this process and look forward to sewing more with fur in the future.
The Creative Living Center, San Andreas CA, April 2019
My spring residency at the CLC has been extremely powerful. We took field trips to see fossils and big trees, foraged mushrooms and planted mushroom gardens, made tinctures and teas, tried our hand at indigo dying and sewed dream pillows, cooked dinners and lived without phones or internet, made inks and art books and poetry, and spent a great deal of time outside. It was the perfect week living in art community and I learned so much from these folks. I will carry this with me forever.
the studio, heated by wood stove with its esoteric library
natural ink and paper experiments
making my own drawing charcoal by wood fire method
