Thanksgiving. 

I’m in the kitchen waiting for the goose to cook. One more hour? Maybe! Meanwhile am boiling the stock, have made the blueberry pie, and will do the mashed potatoes when the goose is done. Even though the dinner will only include my husband, my dog, and me, it will still be special. The good things? No housecleaning for company, no over eating, not many dishes. Perfect! We’ll reconnoiter in the summer with friends and do all of the holidays we missed together!

Not being crazy busy has also allowed me to work on my hummingbird ornaments and papier-mache landscape. And troubleshoot computer problems rearing their ugly heads all week. Of course it’s when we do our catalog for Labyrinth, and there’s a holiday. It never fails. But we’re back on track and will have the first pass ready on Monday. 

Don’t forgot Artist Sunday this Sunday. A chance to peruse a plethora of artists’ sites for holiday gifts. My site is www.caroltippitwoolworth.com. Please check it out! There will be hummingbird ornaments, notecards based on my hummingbird paintings and Alexander Godard diorama paintings. Books. Paintings! 

And so it goes. Tuesday. Again. The days go by in a rush of hope and angst, then hope again. The need to brush up on my french has subsided and now I can relax into my Santa Fe home with the pleasure I’d been anticipating for the past 4 years, although I am plugged into the Jane Birken radio on Pandora. There’s still that desire to live in France before I’ve breathed my last breathe. We shall see. And Winter has arrived along with the revived hope. This morning I awoke to 26º and the trees bare. I love this time of year! 

A new papier-mache landscape is in the works with will include some tiny horses, a lizard, and a prickly pear, along with some dried up old cholla branches found on one of my hikes. It’s coming along and a joy to work on since there are so many stages...creating the forms, applying paper clay, sanding, applying gesso, sanding again, painting, carving with my micro engraver, then finishing the whole thing with a varnish. I’m at the gesso stage today.

Hummingbirds are creeping into my brain again. I have 10 ornaments to paint, and will do some more before the holidays. Plus think I’ll get back to the little paintings. Now that the little fellas have moved south until spring I miss them!

That’s it! Hope all of you are enjoying a lovely autumn week.

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Election Day. 

Finally. It’s certainly the day I’ve been waiting for since November 2016. It will be a very long day...but I’m ready!

The past few days, since the Blue Moon, I have been mourning the passing of my wonderful friend in Paris. Not from COVID...but the other scourge...cancer. She fought valiantly for several years, even visiting me here in Santa Fe back in 2018...two years almost to the day. Her creativity was legend, as was her beauty. Her expanse of friends filled her life with joy and constant visitations. Did I mention her generosity? Also legend. Paris will forever be a memorial to Dora.

Meanwhile my papier-mache landscapes continue. One is now finished, another one in process. This latest  one will entail found objects along with the papier-mâché, and a dusting of pigments I bought 6 years ago or so in Roussillon, the Santa Fe of France, while leading an artist workshop in the Luberon Valley. I never knew what to do with them until now, but the fit is perfect. Natural pigments rubbed on to the objects after they’ve been painted and carved, to create a bit of ethereal color tinting the designs.

If anyone is out there reading my blog today, please vote. This is the election of our lifetime.

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