Happy Thanksgiving

Today is official get ready day for Thanksgiving in our house. I cook all the possible side dishes that I can today and bake bread so the turkey can have full reign in the oven tomorrow. It works and I was so pleased to find that some of the NY Times recipes I scooped from Jenn Judd Mcgee's twitter are simple and divine. Old stand-by dishes will be sitting next to our new found friends on the table of plenty and a sprinkling of snow will add to our ambiance it seems too tomorrow! Family and friends will be joining us and I for one am so very thankful for so very much this year.

artstream will be open as ususal on Friday and Saturday with some special new items both online in the shop and live in the gallery - all at 10% off until the month's end! Drop by and until then, happy Thanksgiving!

Megan Bogonovich : new work

Here is a peek at one of Megan's new sculptures for our next exhibit! It's entitled Picnic. Very excited to show the other new works including a Yellow Brick Road... The work is based around little worlds. Places to go, people to see, thoughts to think.

Poppytalk : Holiday Gift Market

our table at Poppytalk Handmade, launches today!

Happy Monday all! Hope that your weekend was a brilliant as mine. So much to do at this time of year, with family, friends and cooking. I hope to share a little bit of all of it with you this week leading up to my favorite holiday of them all, Thanksgiving. This morning I already have prepared the cranberries - I really love the way they look in the pot, the hand and the bog, their alizarin red just sparkles! Tomorrow will pick up the Turkey for brining, and daughter Grace from college, so baking will have to wait until Wednesday. We are having 12 guests for the holiday so it should be a lot of fun this year - and the weather calls for snow! It doesn't get better than this in New Hampshire. Of course I will have to come back and read this post mid March when I am tearing my hair out with the copious amounts of snow we will have then.

A new show is coming up next week in our gallery so stay tuned to see some peeks of it. It's going to be an amazing double header! IPS 2 and Wandering the Treeline. OoooOOoooh.

The Light of November

crazy beautiful morning november light, originally uploaded by artstreamstudios.

This morning the color of the sky was so unique. It felt everything like a November morning. Now? It is sunny and springlike with rain and rainbows (missed that beautiful shot) and April like. Who knew global warming would be like this?

Pirates and CIA timelapse graffiti mural

Love this so much!

Lesa Morrisey :: Fishbelly Rugs

Lesa Morrisey hooking a new rug, originally uploaded by artstreamstudios.

Here is Lesa in action, working on a new rug of her own design. Lesa is an artist who has formally trained in painting and printmaking, has created sculptures with her wool hooking and now chooses wool rug hooking as her medium. Pop over to the shop to view some of her latest works!

The Perfect Leaf

Last night's frost gave me a chance to take a closer look at the few remaining leaves mulching around the garden beds. One (of a few...) stray ones landed on the recycled boards on the foot paths between our beds. The frost has a nice way of outlining all the patterns on the leaves and this one caught my eye. Working hard on the new shows soon to appear at artstream. Beautiful breathtaking work from Megan Bogonovich and Linda Plaisted plus the bonus of IPS 2. Stay tuned!

In the yard

Keeping with the nonart posts today -- hope you don't mind! I had to steal a little photo of the castoff watering can with the dried on the plant silverfloss. It just got me in the mood for November. And that is saying a whole lot. I am not a fan of November. But this year I am. The warm days and very little grey has pushed all my outdoor buttons into high gear. It's so pretty. It's so warm. It's so September just in time for Thanksgiving. Which really really really is my favorite holiday of them all. What did you find outside today?

Recipes!

Happy Monday! What a wonderful weekend we had this past three days. We slipped off on Friday afternoon to visit daughter Grace at college to attend a parent meeting about her next semester abroad in Rennes, France! She is very excited as this has been a dream of hers since high school. As she is majoring in both French and English, this semester will be dedicated just to her French major - something which she has dreamed of doing since she was 14. So despite our rainy Saturday we enjoyed the other corner of our pretty state! Upon coming home, I started thinking about using up our last bushel of apples. As a family we tend to consume a lot of applesauce or "apfelmus" (as Rainer calls it)- so I got right to work. I have decided to add a little photo recipe part to this blog and my flickr account, so you can explore some of our culinary adventures with us. Later tonight I will be canning or freezing the sauce and will supply directions on the flickr set for that. I hope you will enjoy the applesauce and try making it as it's so very easy!

People and Places :: Theme week

stone house uganda Alexandra Morrow

evening falls rita vindedzis

london cafe angela gwinner
People and places are our Friday picks of the Theme week. There are so many beautiful places and people to choose from it's the hardest choice of the week. Alexandra Morrow's Ugandan Stone house is so beautiful. Rita's evening skyline is soft yet urban and Angela Gwinner has a way with the black and white photograph which can melt your heart. They are full of the take you away feelings which good art can do.

enhabiten :: bird of paradise pillow

oh my! this lovely vintage bird of paradise pillow from enhabiten is over the top for me with flower goodness. in a good way. subtle and lovely, made in nh (extra bonus points!) and has some tassels which give the edges a perfect yummy finish. I just love it! Go ahead and stroll through some more of her vintage beauty at the etsy shop right here and see her home at design sponge! tomorrow's theme? surprise! wait and see....

Amy Rice and omondieu:flowers!

omondieu! red daisy ring

zinnia on envelope by Amy Rice

I couldn't miss out in showing you the omondieu fall flowers ... to wear on your finger, or jacket to love! And Amy Rice's beautiful zinnias!

Theme week:: Flowers Day!

happytown by Jennifer Judd-McGee

Today's theme is flowers. Will let the photos and links do the talkin' today. Have a beautiful one- we are having one right here in happytown ... just love that name.

Katie Runnels :: beautiful birds

Katie Runnels photo Winter bird's nest assemblage
I love Katie Runnels work with or without birds. But this bird nest has me swooning! psst:Christmas is coming... See more of her lovely works at her etsy and website. Sigh!

Theme week :: more birds

new series, originally uploaded by artstreamstudios.

A new bird from my ink collection...

Theme week:: Birds!

Lisa Congdon's Indigo

Birds today are the theme and I had to start with Lisa Congdon's lovely Indigo Bunting. More birds below in three dimensional work too! Stay tuned, I am a bird watcher today and have more pretties up my sleeve!

looped raptor :: abby glassenberg

fishbelly rugs :: blackbirds

Tomorrow? Flowers! More birds to follow these today ...