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Many blessings for the new year ahead.

While visiting some friends I harvested a pile of mint that was overtaking the garden. Into the pot I put an iron railroad spike as mordant. ….and oooh this pot smelled yummy.

What a bounty there is, bushes by the river, along roadsides and skirting fields are heavily laden with the deep purple fruits. I sure wish I were able to can up some jams right now, but a little dye pot and syrup for vanilla ice cream will do.

Boil boil beautiful tansy. More lovely yellows revealing themselves…and this dye pot smells so wonderful!

Harvest gently, harvest ethically, harvest responsibly.

I feel like I’ve been finding just the perfect place to photograph each piece as I finish them. This burned log in the forest was just gorgeous, the textures, the colors…the best. These seven pieces of petrified wood I found and drilled. All of my new pieces in my online shop. https://shop.intentionallyconfusing.com

My new collection of adornment is here - https://shop.intentionallyconfusing.com - I’ll be creating and posting more throughout the summer.

If you are on our mailing list, check your email for the information about the random draw for a chance to purchase Chrysalis Handwoven Art Yardage. If you are not on the mailing list - https://intentionallyconfusing.com - here you will find the information. Here you can also sign up for our mailing list, and become a sustaining member if you’d like. Ideas are brewing, and I promise it won’t be boring.

Skirt is one of my favorite pieces by @bohemianfolkclothing

I harvested the last of our winter lettuce this morning, as it was starting to bolt. It always feels like summer has truly begun once there is no more lettuce in the garden. I love my @larrypogreba knife for garden work, or anything else really.

I’m going to make a ‘bits & pieces’ blanket, or two, out of wooly leftovers from other projects. I love weaving these. 💛💚💙🤎💙💚💛

Water running to its terminus. Seeping into the aquifer. Down mountains, running the same course. I wish I could flow over the pine needles, soil and stones like water. Effortless.

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I’d really been craving a long walk in the woods, (there’s never a time when this isn’t the case I suppose) so we took a backpacking trip through some new canyons in my favorite place. A 25 mile loop over four magic days, greeting the waters, trees, stones and creatures that I love so dearly. The piece that I’ve been working on is inspired by this place. The river, soft forest floor, dry forest and lush riparian areas.

Flowing rivers. What a blessing!

Since the algorithm seems to only like it when I use reels, and admittedly I am enjoying playing around with the video format, here we go. Crashing loom, clinking gears, bouncing rainbows and doves singing outside.

Paddling the Gila river has become an annual pilgrimage for us. A ritual in which we immerse ourselves in this temple of wilderness. This year the river is nearly dry. There was not enough snow to bring the spring high waters. This piece is an ode to this wilderness, engulfed in years of drought, and the keeper of Earth’s secrets. My heart breaks and tears come, drying before they hit the loom.