This months Mags

Anyone who know me know I LOVE to buy mags, all of them every month and i keep them and use them for my project and random info that I will need one day.  I love these because they are all about FALL and I love holiday time. Now living here in New Mexico we can really experience the season more than the valley and I am loving it.

These are the mags for craft and food inspiration

These are the mags for fashion inspiration

These need to be filed away 

Saturday Night Knitting Club

Well life on the grant leads residents to come up with creative ideas on how to have a ROCKING Saturday night. Due to the fact that we are all on a budget and really if we had loads of cash, there is really no place to go out on a Saturday night in Roswell. Most of the residents come from big cities and know what it is really like to live it up. Hey we are all artist and we love to party and have a good time, have you every met an artist that doesn't like to drink, i rest my point, so upon meeting all of  the new girls here on the compound we all found that we like to knit, KNIT you say, why yes, and if you didn't know how we then my teacher mode kicked in and I will teach you. So we have make it a regular event that every Saturday night is knitting night. Now knitting night includes movies, drinks, food and overall fun and laughter. I truly love it and I think so do the other girls. Now without further a due here are my fellow knitters.

This is the group, what a wild bunch of girls 

This is Kellie Vance, aka the sock imposter, now the story about Kellie is that she never knitted before and now she has about 3 or 4 scarfs under her belt and now is working on kitting patterns. She is my best students and I would like to take the shameless create for knitting success. I taught her everything she knows.....HA HA

Now this is Katie and she is a PRO, she is not messing around, look at her go with the mittins that she knitted in a day. She is what we all dream to be.

Thats is Alex and Katie and Alex is also an amazing knitter and is starting on a new project, a leaf, great idea due to the fact that the leaves are about to change here soon. She is the one we go to when we have lost a stitch," Alex what was I doing here I lost it HELP... knit or purl...." thats is me last night. 

Xanthe is also a experience knitter she an import from Canada and know good wool when she see one and my sex in the city follower as am I.

Now this is someone who wants to remain unknown, she will be refered to as lone knitter.......and that is the yarn her daughter picked out, what great taste she has.

Friday, what a week

I am so glad it is Friday, what a week. While we are here on the grant the Anderson, who established this program, help out the artist spouse with part time job at their museum. I work with great ladies and wanted to share some pics. 

This is my desk and what do I do there you ask, well I archive all of the artist that have been thru the residence program. All of there upcoming shows, letters and any news about them. Its is great because I have learned so much on all the artist. 

This is Nancy Ray, she is always in and out and well today she was out, but her desk was waiting for her with a lot of papers.

This is Lanice Lou, who is truly only 35.

This is Ester Sue, who works at so many places everyone knows her.

Today Rigo asked if I would stay home and help him because in the early morning while I was at the gym he broke a mirror, then he broke the stretcher bars and the while he was drilling in wood to correct the mistakes he made, he broke the drill bid, go figure I told him to put down the tools and quit for the day but he, showing his dedication, continued going. Until one of his packages came in and what a package it is, maybe I can take a pic with him and his new prop. 

As for what I have done still in the testing stage with my prints, I have some pic to show my steps. I think I want to much detail for block printing so I might take my chance with silkscreen prints, Rigo reminds me that it is a lot of work but hey I really have not much going on for a about a year, so silkscreen here I come and with great ideas. 

I have an update to show thanks to my little knitter, thank you, you remind me that blogging after hours is going to need my full attention.

Rigo got his long awaited stretcher bars

Well they finally came yesterday and Rigo is hard at work putting them together. I was so amazed how much faster they come together when you have some power behind them. I tried to get him to used them sooner but hey......

Slideshow

Hey ya'll i have load quite a bit of photos for you to look at. This is kind of what we have been up to so far. I hope you enjoy the slide shows. I tried to put them is order from newest to oldest. Enjoy

Welcome to Residency Life in Roswell

Good Morning everyone Rigo and I decided to do this blog to share the experience with out friends and family back home. We wanted everyone know what residency life is like here in Roswell. Everyone will be able to see what Rigo is painting and what I have working on. We also wanted to share all of the crazy weather, the animals, the events, the people and our everyday life. We hope you enjoy our year of the gift of time.....