Hi Friends,
I have moved my blog to my website:
http://www.juliepowelldesigns.com/blog/
There you can sign up to subscribe to the blog and receive it by email or by RSS feed. And you can comment on any post and start a conversation.
Thanks so much for your support!
Julie
To my blog followers:
Shortly I will be going live with a new website.
It will feature my beaded jewelry, but also have a blog included in which I will post drawings, paintings, thoughts,etc. I will be closing down this blog by the beginning of the new year, and hope you will travel with me to my new site. Thanks for all your support.
It’s a joy to be back to drawing and painting again. I’ve been so busy with beaded jewelry orders, sweater designing, The Holidays, and jet lag from a trip to Nepal- that it just didn’t work for me to do this each day. Today I felt the most like MYSELF than I have felt in weeks and weeks. The colors in this arrangement just moved me- set against the inky dark background.
Each night we hear we will get a hard frost, or snow or the beginning of winter coming down hard. My husband covers up the late crop of mixed lettuces and flowers and we hope they will be alive in the morning. But a couple of days ago he pulled up whatever flowers that were still vibrant and picked the green tomatoes. Today the sun is shining and some of the vines are withered. The day glow orange cosmos and hard little green tomatoes sit warmly indoors.
I’ve been working on a free lance job, designing sweaters that are hand knit in Nepal. I’ve been chained to the computer for weeks now. Today I simply had to make the time to paint and draw. Though I love to design, working on the screen non stop for days on end can be soul numbing.
Pears,plums, avocados and mangos- not from our garden. But squash and tomatoes that are. Deep lovely fall colors for the season, begging to be painted.
thank you Trader Joe’s.
I have been playing and experimenting with using copper and silver wire with my woven beadwork. I finished this piece this morning. It combines oxidized heavy gauge copper wire with glass beads and olive jade. I wrapped and bent the wire for the clasp, then hammered it and then oxidized it in Liver of Sulpher. It is the closest to a chemistry class that I have ever gotten, since I dropped chemistry in the tenth grade.
This is the trail around which I walk my dog, run, walk, think and enjoy most every day. The aspen are turning gorgeous shades of yellow. Set against a blue-gray sky in the afternoon they looked start and beautiful, and very tentative. A little wind will blow those yellow leaves away into the hills.
