Sometimes It’s All About Me

I read this quote yesterday in The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron: “Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.” Shakti Gawain And it holds so true. Especially for someone like me, with a chronic illness. Despite the fact that my illness is mostly, thank the Universe, [...]

quick update

I’m still rather weak, but I’m starting to come back to life here. I was actually able to sit in the studio for a few hours this morning and I did some journaling until the exhaustion hit again… I had this picture in my head of a line drawing with text around it. I started [...]

Journaling in the face of tragedy

Yesterday I was avoiding the television. Once the tragedy started at Virginia Tech, I had to turn it off. I could feel myself falling into deep grief and I have been so good about being positive. I’m not ignoring the tragedy. I feel it deeply. So deeply that I had dreams about it last night. [...]

CaC – Movies

I’m still catching up on reading blogs and getting back into blogging myself, so I’m going to be participating in some of the Create a Connection (CaC) offerings: Name your all-time favorite movie! The Wizard of Oz What genre of movie do you like best? This is hard. I love Chick Flicks, but I also [...]

Lots going on

Tonight is the first night of Passover. We’re not having a Seder tonight, but we are tomorrow, and I’m hosting it and cooking for it. That means lots of cooking, lots of good smells in the house. I just, at 11:30 am started my brisket, which I usually like to start at around 8 am [...]

Whew! An artistic frenzy

Well, dear readers, I’ve been busy. I have stayed away from the computer for a while, instead, focusing on some art and organization. I got rid of many magazines I know I’ll never cut up and use, kept those that are vintage or something I know I’ll use. That cut down on my stock significantly! [...]

February Journal Quilt

I am so excited to share with you all my second journal quilt titled, “The Chuppah”. The theme for February was “Love Songs”. And, though there are many songs that remind me of my relationship for my husband, the one I chose to illustrate is a Jewish song that was played at our wedding. Our [...]

February Calendar Journal Pages

I have mentioned before that I am participating in a calendar journal round robin and I’m involved in. The following are the pages I did for Kathy’s Journal for the month of February. This is the first page I did in Kathy’s Journal. It’s a sign in page, but also a page that reminds us [...]

Journaling, journaling, journaling!

I’ve finished up the artwork for the CalendarGirlz calendar I currently have. I left some of the pages alone that I had posted here; but others needed some tweaking, so here are some descriptions and images! To the left is the final version of Escher’s self-portrait with quite a bit of altering. I really went [...]

And a quilt (sort of) is born

I spent what seemed like forever trying to get my bobbin loaded with the thread, but it worked finally and I actually did the majority of the work on my first Journal Quilt for January. It’s not even close to professional but considering that I have NEVER done this before, I have no training in [...]

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Fran Saperstein

Fiber, acrylic, mixed-media artist

Sometimes It’s All About Me

quick update

Journaling in the face of tragedy

CaC – Movies

Lots going on

Whew! An artistic frenzy

February Journal Quilt

February Calendar Journal Pages

Journaling, journaling, journaling!

And a quilt (sort of) is born

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