Carol Wiebe
The Art of Possibility
Last night I cracked open a book that I had just picked up from my local public library. I had never heard of the Zanders, Rosamund Stone...
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Carol Wiebe
- Mar 17, 2008
- 3 min
What unused art materials are hiding in YOUR closet?
I used to buy a lot of polymer clay books, including Nan Roche’s The New Clay. I bought a few videos, too. I still have a box (a BIG box)...
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Carol Wiebe
- Mar 13, 2008
- 2 min
Three DYNAMIC women . . .wait, make that four!
I recently viewed a thrilling example of synchronicity, on Bonnie McCaffery’s site, that produced a stunning, award winning quilt! First...
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Carol Wiebe
- Feb 26, 2008
- 2 min
The Indomitable Virginia Cobb
The word indomitable popped into my head when I thought about Virginia Cobb, and all that I had seen and learned after viewing the DVD...
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Carol Wiebe
- Feb 21, 2008
- 1 min
Create Your Own Designer Fabric
After my painted fabric was dry, I started putting combinations together, often in surprising ways. Or, I could extend the process by...
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Carol Wiebe
- Feb 14, 2008
- 2 min
Quite a Step
It is quite a step to jump from doodles to passion, but I am inspired, for whatever strange reasons, to do so. I have a great passion for...
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Carol Wiebe
- Jan 20, 2008
- 2 min
Compulsive Doodling and the Patterns They Can Reveal . . .
It doesn’t matter how boring the meeting, how long the wait at the airport or doctor’s office, as long as I have a couple of good black...
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Carol Wiebe
- Dec 17, 2007
- 1 min
A surprise of beautiful work
I went to a local art ‘n craft sale this weekend, and found some beautiful painting/collage work by an artist named Laurie Skantzos. I...
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Carol Wiebe
- Oct 23, 2007
- 2 min
Small Quilt Craze
All right, so maybe it’s not a craze. I have no idea how many people are actually doing it. The ATC phenomenon seems to have reached epic...
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Carol Wiebe
- Oct 9, 2007
- 2 min
A Doll Is Not Necessarily Just a Pretty Plaything
Dolls are traditionally considered to be pretty playthings. As such, they are non-threatening, mere toys, used by children to act out...
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Carol Wiebe
- Oct 3, 2007
- 1 min
Being Remains
have a dear friend who endured some tough stuff lately. Imagine losing your ability to do just about everything, and remaining in that...
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Carol Wiebe
- Sep 24, 2007
- 2 min
Milagro deMeng
How could I write about shrine artists and leave out Michael deMeng? He specializes in “making the unsacred into something seemingly...
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Carol Wiebe
- Sep 16, 2007
- 1 min
More Maggie Grey, Please
It all started when the book Raising the Surface with Machine Embroidery first jumped out of an ad and into my consciousness. I had to...
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Carol Wiebe
- Sep 13, 2007
- 2 min
Beautiful necessities
For decades, Valerie Hearder has been creating luminous landscapes that express both her outer and inner vistas. I am especially drawn to...
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Carol Wiebe
- Sep 9, 2007
- 1 min
Dare
Eckhart Tolle, an author who has offered me many insights and realizations, has this to say about love in his book The Power of Now: Love...
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Carol Wiebe
- Aug 16, 2007
- 1 min
Tender
“Tender” is a mixed media art quilt. “Tender is my heart” is a line from one of the couple’s favorite songs. Dragonfly, or “Tonbo” in...
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Carol Wiebe
- Aug 14, 2007
- 3 min
The Hokey Pokey
A few months ago I decided that I wouldn’t blog anymore until I figured out how to use WordPress properly. Well, I put tabs in a binder...
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Carol Wiebe
- Mar 23, 2007
- 2 min
Give it all
I have a new friend who feels like an old friend, a forever friend, and in correpondence with her I felt moved to share the following...
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Carol Wiebe
- Jan 9, 2007
- 2 min
Suppressing CHAOS through database creation
I don’t know how other people keep track of their computer files and folders, but mine were/are definitely OUT OF CONTROL. When you get...
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Carol Wiebe
- Dec 24, 2006
- 1 min
Silverspring Studio Blog Is Born
This blog is a gift to my mom— a very gifted and talented “maker of stuff”. She has tried just about everything in the art space, from...
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