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10 Jun

The Dog Ate My Homework

Posted by dawnalbemis@hotmail.com | duralar, encaustic monoprints, International Encaustic Conference, printmaking, Prints, quilts, stencil | 0 comments |

I feel SO GUILTY. I didn’t post anything last week! I always seem to forget something when I go on a trip, this time it...
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28 May

Busy Busy

Posted by dawnalbemis@hotmail.com | Blog, FIMAV, Quebec | 0 comments |

So busy in fact that it seemed to have slipped my mind that yesterday was Friday (ok that could be my advancing age or just...
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20 May

Together Alone

Posted by dawnalbemis@hotmail.com | beading, crazy quilt, crocheting, embellishment, FIMAV, International Encaustic Conference, Quebec, Uncategorized | 0 comments |

Hello all, this seems to be a very busy time of year for me, and a hard one to get a lot of art done...
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13 May

Going Postal

Posted by dawnalbemis@hotmail.com | Blog, crazy quilt, crocheting, encaustic, monotype, quilt | 0 comments |

I haven’t lost it – I finished up the postcards! I always seem to underestimate how long the hand-sewing around the edges is going to...
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06 May

Going Crazy

Posted by dawnalbemis@hotmail.com | crazy quilt, embroidery, encaustic, International Encaustic Conference, printmaking, Prints, quilt, scrap | 0 comments |

Every year in June I go to the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown Mass. It is a wonderful gathering of painters, printmakers and artists of...
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29 Apr

Book Report

Posted by dawnalbemis@hotmail.com | book, Maine, midwife, migraines, quilt | 0 comments |

I started going through “A Midwife’s Tale” looking for pages that would be good to use in the quilt for my great-grandmother. As I suspected...
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22 Apr

Putting Perspective on Things

Posted by dawnalbemis@hotmail.com | Blog, books, crocheting, Maine, midwife, quilts | 0 comments |

I’ve been away on vacation for a while, though I did manage to set the blog up to auto post in my absence. And I...
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15 Apr

This Space Intentionally Left Blank

Posted by dawnalbemis@hotmail.com | Uncategorized | 0 comments |

I'm on vacation, actually I was on vacation last week as well but I managed to get one semi-meaningfull post done ahead of time before...
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08 Apr

Hangman

Posted by dawnalbemis@hotmail.com | encaustic collage, hanging options, quilts | 0 comments |

So I’ve been trying to decide how to hang these things… For the photographs I’ve been using rare earth neodymium magnets (in part because I...
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01 Apr

Pineapple Express

Posted by dawnalbemis@hotmail.com | crochet, crocheting, quilts | 0 comments |

My cousin JoAnne remembered that my great grandmother Grace was fond of making crocheted doilies and that she often used the pineapple pattern. I got...
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