FOR COMPARISON

NOW

THEN (AUGUST)

Do I need a nursing chair?

So, my question of the day is - "Do I need a nursing chair?" Is it worth buying one? If you've seen our living room, you know it is really small, and we don't really have a comfortable place to sit. So, what do you think?

I'm home today because of another snow storm that dumped 10 inches, so here are some pictures from the past few weeks:
Week 32 (last week).

That handsome guy Eugene at Higgins Beach.

My high school friend Carrie Gundersdorf was in town from Chicago over the Christmas holidays.

Lily and Ben received these fabulous hand-made toys from their aunt Brit.

My niece Lily in front of her Christmas tree.

Installing "Matter"

This past week was spent installing "Matter," the exhibit I curated for SPACE Gallery. Mike Andrews, Karen Gelardi, and Caroline Lathan Steifel all came to install their work. Thanks to Karen, who got the show mentioned on Design*Sponge.
Karen Gelardi ironing one of her curtains.


Eugene Cole and Melinda Barnes installing Amy Honchell's cut lace piece.

Mike Andrews and Avery Forbes cutting 2" x 4"s.

Mike pulling yarn tubes over 2" x 4"s.

Me sewing. More photos to come!

MATTER: Contemporary Textiles @ SPACE

MATTER
An exhibit of contemporary textiles
Curated by Catharine Draper as part of the “Artists Curating Artists” series

Mike Andrews
Catharine Draper
Karen Gelardi
Amy Honchell
Caroline Lathan-Stiefel
Mark Newport


Opening: January 11. 2008 from 5:00-8:00 pm

January 11 - February 22, 2008
Wednesday - Friday, 12-6pm and by chance and appointment

@ SPACE Gallery
538 Congress Street, Portland, ME
www.space538.org

December Update

I thought I'd catch you all up on life in Maine in December. The month has been full of mundane things and lots of snow. Here is our house after our first snow storm.


We cooked our first turkey. We were going to have my family over for an early December turkey feast, but another snow storm caused us to cancel it.

Photo-A-Go Go, an annual photo auction that supports the Bakery Photo Collective, and is THE place to be seen, happened on December 14th. Eugene donated a photo.

I insisted that we go walk in yet another snow storm one night.

My stomach is getting bigger. I think this was 29 weeks.

Eugene decided to rake the snow off the roof of the house during yet another snow storm on December 20th. I got to stay home from work that day.

Our mothers would really like a good picture of us together. We tried to take one of ourselves to give them for Christmas. This is as good as it got. They still don't have a photo of us together.

O Christmas Tree

You would think that, because we live in Maine, we would have a real live Christmas tree in our living room every year. Nope. We have a tradition of putting up a small, snow frosted artificial tree. This year a big package arrived from Eugene's mom in Florida - a 6.5 foot tall white artificial tree with lights! It went up in the blink of an eye. We are all enjoying it.

Thanksgiving 2007

Eugene and I went to my sister's house in Augusta, ME for Thanksgiving. I took pictures of everyone there, but they came out blurry. So here is our dinner; Sarah, Josh, Josh's mom Priscilla, and my nephew Ben (4 months); and dessert of pumpkin pie and chocolate pudding cake.