by StaceyW | Dec 19, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Nature
Like so many people I know, I’ve spent a large part of the last week in bed with proper flu. It’s left a lingering chesty cough and I was a little concerned about how I would cope with playing tenor sax for the Trent River Big Band who were performing...
by StaceyW | Dec 12, 2010 | Education, Teaching, Travel, Weaving
It’s always fun to stay with friends. It’s even more fun to meet up with like-minded individuals from all over the country who get together for a learning experience. This week some of the UK Complex Weavers met up at Handweavers’ Studio for a...
by StaceyW | Dec 5, 2010 | Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Travel
Our recent snow days have given quite a few people a few moral dilemmas to work through… I’m lucky – I don’t have far to go to get to work (and I love my work!!), only having a few steps from my house to my studio – so I don’t have...
by StaceyW | Dec 1, 2010 | Life, Nature, Publications, Weaving
This morning we awoke to the most snow anyone in this area can remember for around 20 years! It is sooo beautiful! I am so lucky that I work from a studio next to the house, so I only had a short passage to clear to the workshop door, and the woodburning stove had...
by StaceyW | Nov 28, 2010 | Life
I was watching Sweeney Todd, the film version, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter (with Alan Rickman and Timothy Spall) last night, and I was amazed at the musical talent these normally drama-oriented actors showed. I know from playing the show that the...
