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Have fun I will be there! http://www.jpopenstudios.com/

This blog is so interesting and you can tell it is made by someone who loves Jamaica Plain.  His knowledge of history, current events and just plain love for where he live is astounding.  It is definitely worth a look if not a bookmark for us JP people. Click the title to take you to his Blog. Inside Sweet Nut Margarine trade card outside.

Love the Bench! Click the link above for the projects.

So this is my finial blog for my Mass College of Art class with Professor Sharon Butler.  Now that I have my missing keys back it makes it much easier to type.  The class has been wonderful and exciting compared to the other ones I had to take.  I actually enjoyed it.  I will continue to blog About Jamaica Plain and other thing that interest me.  It may not be as often because I will be back in school teaching art VERY soon.  So my summer starts now.  Two weeks of no classes what a treat! If you would like to know more about social networking and how to blog this is the class to take and I highly recommend it. Professor Butler is a wealth of information and can answer just about any question or problem you may have. So this is for you Professor Butler and I will continue the blog because I am enjoying it. Thank You One of my Morning Glories I grew from seed.  The colors are am...

My friend Genevieve recently open a fabric and knitting store in Jamaica Plain.  What A great new addition to the local businesses! Its a beautiful space and if you are in JP you crafty people should check it out. She carries my favorite fabric designer which you will see in the next post.  If you click on the title of the post it will take you to her website.

I can't seem to get enough of Merimekko especially the artist Sanna Aunnkka. The company is a Finnish company based in Helsinki that has made important contributions to fashion, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. They are particularly noted for brightly-colored printed fabrics and simple styles, used both in women's garments and in home furnishings. My friend Genivie's store in Jamaica Plain that I metioned above carries Marimekko. You can go there and drool over it like I do. She has a good selection of some reissued Marimekko prints as well as new designs and many other designers that are amazing.  Even though They have a concept store in Cambridge it's nice to know you can go down the block and pick up some fantastic Marimekko fabric. Here are some examples of Sanna Annukka one of my favortite Marimekko designers. You can also click on the title of this post and it will take you to her website.

So the wedding was a hit and went off without a hitch, and all had fun.  I did a bit research on Captain Linnell's house when I got home and it seem it was abandoned for many years after his death and went into disrepair for many years.  The current owner took 15-22 years restoring it to its former glory.  You can read about the haunting it in this book: Cape Encounters: Contemporary Cape Cod Ghost Stories   By Dan Gordon, Gary Joseph write  http://books.google.com/books?id=kd9J_Ug2nK0C&lpg=PA11&ots=fcMuB1RR0i&dq=haunting%20at%20captain%20linnell%20house%20cape%20was%20there%20a%20ghost&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false

So the wedding was a hit and went off without a hitch, and all had fun.  I did a bit research on Captain Linnell's house when I got home and it seem it was abandoned for many years after his death.  You can read about it here: Cape Encounters: Contemporary Cape Cod Ghost Stories   By Dan Gordon, Gary Joseph write  http://books.google.com/books?id=kd9J_Ug2nK0C&lpg=PA11&ots=fcMuB1RR0i&dq=haunting%20at%20captain%20linnell%20house%20cape%20was%20there%20a%20ghost&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false

On Friday night was the wedding of one of my student teachers and friend Allie Doubis. It was a beautiful ceremony outside in a wooded area. While they had their pictures taken on the beach the guests entered the Sea Captain's house Called The Linnel House for drinks when they returned we were served a delicious dinner and then the cake was cut and everyone danced.  The house belonged to and was named after Captain Linnel who lived there. Now it is a posh restaurant and event destination. I especially liked the decorations Allie did all herself and the memory chest for the people that were no longer with us. It was beautifully thought out. memory chest Allison Shirley Who was also a student teacher and friend of mine from Mass Art was also there with me. After doing some research I found out the house is haunted. Apparently the Captain hung himself in the house. It was the staff that warned us that the house was haunted. I will post a lin...

So I am off to the wedding and I go a beautiful dress at Anthropologie....of course. Click the title for more information about the dress. I love that it comes with straps or you can go without as well. I think it is a work of art in itself. Have a nice weekend everyone and I will be back blogging on Sundady.

So I threw out my back gardening and can hardly move. So I am trying to do the best I can to get around.  So the posts are shorter.  But, still as good! Here are some of my favorite Birds. I am of to a wedding on the cape. One of my best student teachers and good friend is getting married.  So I will catch up with everyone on twitter until I get back Sunday.  That is unless I can figure out how to do it from my Iphone if I have the time. Have a great weekend! I hope everyone did have a nice day, it was gorgeous out!

Anyone who knows me knows I love owls birds and peacocks which i guess you could consider a bird .  Its been an ongoing thing for 5 years now. I love drawing, painting, collecting and seeing them.  Here are some owls.....

We are big DIY/ artists so we are slowly getting this house updated from the1920s'-30's ish updated and back to it's original glory I  guess you could say.  I would say is an eclectic mix of things.  Here are some before and afters.  But always a work in progress. Before After

So it was really nice to spend time with my Mother and my Husband for a few days relaxing and doing some gardening. We swam and relaxed in my brother's hot tub every night looking at the stars.  But, there is something about your own home too that makes you long for it after being away in a bed that is not your own.  I was excited to get back to my garden and I bought a few pots and my mother gave me some plants too so I was itching to garden at my house. I took some pictures of my deck today and I though it reminded me of a Frida Kahlo painting for some reason.  I think its all the colors, wine bottles, candles and plants galor.  I am happy to be home.

 So this is a picture of the first school house in my town.  It is exactly the same as it was when it was in use. Can anyone say Little House On The Prairie ? So it was hard to see inside because the windows reflect the outside which makes for a cool picture but hard to see inside. It is maintained by the people in that live around it and it is so beautiful. Sometimes I wish life was simple like this.  There is an old farm house across the street that I alwasy wanted to buy, since I was about 21. Now it has been to let go to bring back which saddens me. One room schoolhouse Front door of School It really does look like its right out of the past. It is in pristine condition. Ok so here is he house that I always dreamed of having with a farm too. As you can see it is severely in need of love now  andI do not think  it can make a comeback.  I wish I could fix it up though. Looks like th...

So I am on a "vacation" of sorts with my husband visiting my mother.  She still lives where I grew up in Western Mass or otherwise known as The Pioneer Valley. It is one of the most picturesque places I have been.  Below are some pictures of where I grew up. The first picture is Called Prospect House it is still on the top of Mount Holyoke Range in South Hadley MA.  The mountain is called Skinner mountain named after the the great Skinner family who imported silk from 1700 to the 1920's. The cation explain each photos. This is the Prospect House the way it looked when it was a hotel. People used to be brought half way up the Mountain then they would take a trolly car the rest of the way up because it was so steep. You can see the covered trolly going up. In the 1700's they built a grand hotel on the top of Skinner mountain called Prospect House .  It soon grew into the place to ...

Here are the latest pictures of the new murals we have at my school the Curley K-8 in Jamaica Plain. They are beautiful. Entire Mural Close up Close up of Frog Children's Mural from Summer School 

The Sargent Gallery Restoration Project Below you will find the mural crew ( BYCC) recreating paintings inspired by the John Singer Sargent murals. Next to the photos of work in progress you can view the original piece that inspired these artists from Boston High Schools.You can see the original mural is at the Boston Public Library.

The fully restore captains house  I recently stayed with a very good friend of mine at a Cape house in Orleans.  Her parents were I guess you could say, were "house sitting" for there good friends while they were on a long family bike trip around Europe. So here I am thinking we are going to a modest cape house but when we pulled in the  long  tree lined driveway to an old Captains house with a barn and two carriage houses on the property I was shocked.  This house was beautiful to say the least.  Now the people that owned it lived in it year round so it was really a home not a beach house even though the beach was at the end of the street.  Their daughter "the artist" who was also on the trip is a painter, an amazing painter at that. Her work was all over the main house. She made her studio /live-in space on the property near the huge back garden that had every fruit and vegetable...