Vintage Linens

I am discovering these wonderful people - bit by bit - from the 1930's and beyond who made such interesting designs for linens! I'm hung up on tea towels, hankies, tablecloths, and -of course- aprons. So far these are on my list-to-look-out-for when I'm out at the garage sales and such.

- Vera Maxwell (My Fav!!)
- Tammis Keefe
- Carl Tait
- Pat Prichard

I keep collecting linens that I like and storing them away. I have big plans for all of them. Most of my Art plans depend on waiting for all my children to be tucked away in school . With them busy learning I imagine that I will tackle my always growing list of Art projects. I actually have been plugging away here and there with my Art - but tending to my kids always comes first. So - Art takes the back seat. But, it's always right HERE - or THERE - somewhere in my mind. Could this Blog thing actually serve for me to organize all those projects? I hope so! Ramble, ramble, ramble.

books from book club

**Current Book Selection** January 2006
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
*Next book club meeting is Feb. 21 @ Christine's home.

Past Book Selections

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult
The Witch of Cologne
The Awakenings by Kate Chopin
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Witch Child by Celia Rees
The Inner Circle by T.C. Boyle
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawerence
The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier
The Human Stain by Phillip Roth
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wicked by Gregory MacQuire
A Long Walk by Slavormir Rawicz
Doctor Zhivago
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faulain
Sirens of the Titens by Kurt Vonnegut
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
The Summer House by Jude Deveroux
Drowning Ruth by Christana Schwartz
Princess by Jean Sawson