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Now that I've proven that my neck will tolerate me doing some weaving, I'm on to a new project-- warp speed ahead! (See what I did there?) I'm counting warping my loom as this week's project-- it does take a little time and effort-- and hopefully the completed piece will be featured in an upcoming week's Workz very soon. WARPED AND READY TO GO (Hmmm. .. is that a description of me, or the loom? I leave the interpretation up to you.)

This week's project was inspired by a painted tic-tac-toe set I saw at a local vegan eatery. It was so cute, I thought "I need to make something like that!" And so I did. First, I painted the base: a wooden tray which provides both a place to paint the board and storage for the pieces. (I like things that are "self-contained.) Then, I painted the pieces: I used a brush-on gloss finish to seal the pieces and put felt pads on the bottom of them, and voila... Bug-Tac-Toe! (or Ti

The table runner I started just over a year ago-- originally intended for decorating for St Patrick's Day 2025-- is finally finished. Apparently the TGAP deadline didn't do its job on this one! (As Douglas Adams said, "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by".) In my defense, some neck issues and nerve pain were what kept me away from my loom, but I decided to attempt to finish this runner in time for this year's decorations and found that-- if I

I've been absent from TGAP for far too long, and rather than try to play "catch-up" and fail, I'm just going to start fresh at Week 55, marking the end of the first year of our project (and current dystopian circumstances) with a project meant to remind us of simpler times. I give you: "Conversation Hearts" (Acrylic paint pen on marble)

Dry January For Catherine O’Hara It is better to leave Early, your audience still wanting more of you - soft touch, bad joke, homemade family recipe enchiladas. Why would one stick around for a bit - after the show, post curtain call, and politely clapping for the tech crew? There won’t be as many memes then. Shuffling off modestly or slipping away under high thread-count, quiet sheets. Heart declaring it has been boring here without beer or sex or all the reasons I hung arou

Catwoman as Leonine You were the only villain I longed to be. Tight, black leather, Whip. And, oh, those ears! So Soft to the rub. Little girls Are supposed to dream of being The heroine - or even that damsel - Distressed and waiting for rescue. No one confesses the power of In the anti-hero. That, sure, although The audience may despise you On the foamy surface, that under It all they cheer for your demons. Batman Is in love. Bruce Wayne sleeps next To those damsels he has c

I haven't practiced macramé since the early 80's. Someday, this may be a Christmas tree. This took many hours. #familycraftingday

Back Pages Collect words like knick- Knacks, shivering on the last Pages of a notebook. Waiting To come down off the shelf, Out of the storage bin, rise From the cellar - where Each had been deposited. Could I sell you at a White elephant  sale? To                     Young Poets desperate For meaning — clutching At the old clichés  — or Not grasping                      The one of them. Isolated in sleek boxes — Where glaring nothing Rots each hour, Like the crabapples     

Mental Load Invisible torture that rules Each day. Mother must Make things move. Missed Appointments and the other Unacceptables. Who can sleep In all this chaos? Need air Supply space cowboy Junkie cookie snacks and Carbon monoxide. Vacuum Up cat fur and dog — Walk. Wake. Shop. Fill stockings and run them. Who can breath or sit down To read a book or look. Remember breakfast nook Puzzles and how your Nana fed you there.