Well I'm finally back. This blog post is for Alice! LOL... She wants me to blog away and tell you what's going on in my life!! Well I don't know that much exciting is going on to actually tell you about but I thought I'd at least post my yearly Memorial Day Greeting!! Also thanks to all of you that have commented nicely about my rug or emailed me directly. I appreciate your kind words. I put a lot of work into that rug for Buzz. I hope he loves it. And thank you for the welcome to the world of "blogging"!!
I plan to get some pictures up here very soon of my family, my furry kids and some rugs. Greg is working this whole weekend including Monday but he took a vacation day on Tuesday.. Yippee.... Finally maybe we can do something. He's been doing yard work and trying to get the yard to look good since the winter and I am busy trying to wash laundry on sunny days when I can hang it out since my dryer died. Luckily it died during the warm months and I can wait a month or so to get one but seems like all it does is rain here in PA since my dryer died so I am now watching the weatherman every day to see when I can wash and hang. Otherwise I wash here and drag it to the laundromat to use their dryers which is a pain. Wet Laundry is very very heavey I found out when I took 3 loads to the laundromat to dry them!! Much easier getting it home then it was getting it to the laundromat.
I still have not seen Buzz to give him his rug but I'm hoping to insist that I see him this week coming up to give it to him. I've talked to him a few times but he's not feeling well at all. I worry about him but it's all out of my control. Please remember him in your prayers. I'm hoping to get a picture of him holding the rug to post here.
So that's what's exciting in my life. I'll be back soon. I planned to do this weekly but find I don't have anything to say every week. Such excitment here!!!!
Have a wonderful safe holiday weekend my friends. hugs ~Cyndi
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Here we go.....
May 7, 2008
Well it's only been a year since I typed that "new blogger" and I still do not know anymore than I knew last year but I'm going to try to give this a whirl. I'd like to share with you a rug I made for a dear friend. His name is Buzz and he has lymph node cancer. He is a full time musician for a wonderful band called Simon Apple. He is their drummer and also the lyricist for the band. Buzz was diagnosed May 07 and had surgery which was successful. He then went through 35 radiation treatments that were brutal. They had to be very aggressive with this cancer. Buzz is 48, same age as me. He had a feeding tube placed in November 07 and still is not eating any real foods. All his meals go through the feeding tube. Unfortunately the affects of the radiation have taken their toll on him. He is also suffering greatly from depression.
I decided to hook a rug for Buzz to give him hope and something that would be uplifting. Now I do primitive folk art so this rug is a huge step out of the box for me. It is called Leap of Faith. First because that is what he took when he put himself into the hands of the caring doctors at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Secondly Buzz wrote a song called "Leap of Faith" many years ago and he never knew it would come to mean so much to him. I envisioned this rug in my mind almost to a tee but not with these bright colors. The colors came into play when I found online a website for Jane Evershed. She had painted a painting called Leap of Faith. I immediately asked her if I could use some of the elements of her painting in my rug and she immediately said yes. THANK YOU JANE!
I probably would have hooked the cliffs in browns but seeing her painting so vivid in color made me take that giant step away from primitive. I placed an apple on the ground where she had a city, the apple being for the band Simon Apple. I then wrote "Leap of Faith" in the beautiful blue sky and put a small bee there since bees go Buzz. The man is leaping from the bare cliff with no life to the cliff with the beautiful tree where there is life and wellness. It was truly a labor of love for Buzz. I then put a beautiful sentiment to him on the reverse. Also Jane Evershed had written a poem for Leap of Faith:
I then took Buzz's song and printed the first verse on the reverse of the rug:
Well it's only been a year since I typed that "new blogger" and I still do not know anymore than I knew last year but I'm going to try to give this a whirl. I'd like to share with you a rug I made for a dear friend. His name is Buzz and he has lymph node cancer. He is a full time musician for a wonderful band called Simon Apple. He is their drummer and also the lyricist for the band. Buzz was diagnosed May 07 and had surgery which was successful. He then went through 35 radiation treatments that were brutal. They had to be very aggressive with this cancer. Buzz is 48, same age as me. He had a feeding tube placed in November 07 and still is not eating any real foods. All his meals go through the feeding tube. Unfortunately the affects of the radiation have taken their toll on him. He is also suffering greatly from depression.
I decided to hook a rug for Buzz to give him hope and something that would be uplifting. Now I do primitive folk art so this rug is a huge step out of the box for me. It is called Leap of Faith. First because that is what he took when he put himself into the hands of the caring doctors at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Secondly Buzz wrote a song called "Leap of Faith" many years ago and he never knew it would come to mean so much to him. I envisioned this rug in my mind almost to a tee but not with these bright colors. The colors came into play when I found online a website for Jane Evershed. She had painted a painting called Leap of Faith. I immediately asked her if I could use some of the elements of her painting in my rug and she immediately said yes. THANK YOU JANE!
I probably would have hooked the cliffs in browns but seeing her painting so vivid in color made me take that giant step away from primitive. I placed an apple on the ground where she had a city, the apple being for the band Simon Apple. I then wrote "Leap of Faith" in the beautiful blue sky and put a small bee there since bees go Buzz. The man is leaping from the bare cliff with no life to the cliff with the beautiful tree where there is life and wellness. It was truly a labor of love for Buzz. I then put a beautiful sentiment to him on the reverse. Also Jane Evershed had written a poem for Leap of Faith:
It's Yours, Take it,
Leap like a lunatic
Over the chasm below
Erupting as you go
Your true self awaits you
NOW you will know.
~Jane Evershed
I then took Buzz's song and printed the first verse on the reverse of the rug:
Stand On the Edge of a Moment
Looking out but I never look down
Aware of the chasm before me,
Where the Darkness of doubt can be found
Fear is what has become me
As the time is now close at hand
Praying for someone to join me
On this leap of faith I have planned....
~Buzz Saylor
The hand dyed wools were dyed by Tammy Burks of Skip To My Ewe and it was hooked in an 8 cut. Whipstitched around the edges with 100% wool - navy. I dedicate this rug to my friend...........Buzz Saylor. Each loop was a loop of love, friendship and prayer for your return to wellness. Blessings ~ Cyndi
Sunday, May 27, 2007
A New Blogger
Hello and welcome to my blog. I am a first time blogger so I really have no idea what I am doing. Being the computer illiterate I am this will be a challenge but I hope to share with you pictures of my rugs and fiber arts and also of my furry kids. For now I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Memorial Day weekend. See you soon! ~Cyndi
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