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Secret place
Someone ought to write a short story about where all the undelivered love letters go. The ones that are written with such beautiful, secret, unexpressed longing. The ones that can never be sent because...
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Life in Port au Prince, two years on
As you might have surmised from my posts last year, Haiti has not recovered well from the earthquake it suffered in January 2010. This year we did not get whisked from airport to airport and flown to...
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Back at the Arts Centre
You remember the kids at the Art Creation Foundation for Children, right? The ones who just loved our cameras last year. It was an emotional experience to go back and see them again for another mad...
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Who lives in a house like this?
One of the most awesome things about our trip back to Haiti this year was that we weren't kept on such a short leash. The first time out, we were driven around and ushered in and out of places as if...
View ArticleDonors: list of names for exhibit
Soon I will be displaying the Peacock Dress (such as it is so far) in public for the first time. I'd like to include a list of donors. I have 225 full names, but there are 92 further LJ names whose...
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State of Harman Hay Publications
Some of you have heard rumours and mutterings that exciting things are afoot... and I can now confirm that the online magazines Your Wardrobe Unlock'd and Foundations Revealed are both about to step up...
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More new houses
This is a family we met on our walk further into Jacmel. The lady in the background is not necessarily a biological relative of these seven children; we heard that it has been common for adults simply...
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[Peacock Dress] The Cunning Plan
It has now been two months since I last put a stitch in the Peacock Dress. My wrists are somewhat better, progress is slow but sure, and I am no longer wearing the braces all the time, although wearing...
View ArticleLJ name or real name?
As you know, I'm creating a list of donors to the Haiti/Peacock Dress project for use when displaying it online or in person. If your LJ name is on the list below (check again, I've added a couple), I...
View ArticleHaiti/Peacock Dress Donor List
Here is the final, complete list of ALL real and LJ donor names as it will appear on the public list. Please check and let me know if you're not happy, for whatever reason, so that I can make any final...
View ArticleWrists... fixed!
I'm almost ready for Costume College. The lecture is written, the slideshow assembled, the embroidery kits are getting together, the fabric has arrived (or at least, the postcard telling me how much I...
View ArticleHELP!!
Is anyone coming to Costume College from the LONG BEACH/FULLERTON area in LA who might be willing and able to pick up a 7'x2' embroidery frame on Thursday and bring it to the hotel? This is proving...
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[Peacock Dress] Costume College report
Contact lenses: not ideal when threading a needle(Photo by redheadwtattoos)So you know by now that Costume College was a great success. I had more fun than ever, and got Important Stuff done too.The...
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State of the Peacock Dress
More footage from the embroidery class at Costume College - thank you to k_adrian!As you know, my objective in exhibiting the work in progress in LA, running a lecture and holding an embroidery class...
View ArticleWhy We Make
Marion posted this on one of our Facebook pages a little while ago, and I finally got to see the whole thing, and I LOVE it, and it explains to me why I am making the Peacock Dress, and probably...
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The cat's out of the bag
So it's time! The deed is done, everyone who needs to know first knows, and I'm ready to explain what it is I was blathering about a week or so ago.Demi and I are no longer a couple. This happened...
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Keep on pedalling
It's the end of the summer, the end of all the major trips for the year when I'm only able to keep a light touch on anything work-related. Because of that I'm feeling a little snowed under. If you're...
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[Peacock Dress] Back on track
This is the embroiderer's eye view through the magnifying glass. Elina finished the last feather for me during the summer, so the incomplete one you see here is what I did in the last couple of days of...
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This is your T-4 days' warning
132. A Volkswagen beetle covered completely in whipped cream with two smiling children standing beside it. (50 points)Do you recall that I took part in a ridiculous scavenger hunt last year?For one...
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[Peacock Dress] Halfway... well, kind of...
Another one finished, another one begun! I'm on row 8, and at the edge of the fabric, at the bottom of this new row, there's a heavy pencil mark.That's the halfway point between waist and hem on the...
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