I had a wonderful trip to Sara Swink’s studio this past weekend for Portland Open Studios. I had fallen in love with her work when we taught together at Menucha for Creative Arts Community. Since then I’ve been wondering how I could get one of her beautiful pieces into my home. Sometimes it takes patience to acquire a piece of art, and this was no exception. I often think that the purchases that take people time to put together are even more flattering than the purchases that occur quickly or spontaneously.

Anyway, my sister went with me and I think that had something to do with my ‘spree’. The piece(s) I bought are titled ‘Three Sisters”. That is very fitting for me, as I have three sisters who are so precious to me. Sara’s story about how these women keep showing up in her work was also a pivotal factor for me buying this set. They look so fabulous in my family room!

Here are a few ‘portraits’ of each sister: Click on the images for an enlargement

I had a pretty frustrating technology day today 🙁 I tried for several hours to print a photo in large format for my husband. Unfortunately, the old printer and new computer do not seem to like each other at all. Everyday printing is fine, but trying to print on large format paper is impossible at this point. I finally gave up at about 12:30 and got dressed. LOL. Then I tackled my website update. The theme that I use for my website had a major revision back in August that I hadn’t implemented yet. I needed to upload the new theme and try to recreate the customizations I had made. The current site is what I’ve come up with so far. I know it isn’t the same, but right now it is what I can do. I’m not sure whether to revert to having the full blog posts on the blog page or keep the excerpts. What do you think? I always love hearing your comments.

Anyway, at about 3:30 I finally quit the computer and went outside for some glorious fall lawn mowing and animal feeding. I even had 4 deer watching as I mowed the lawn 🙂