Weekly Photo Challenge: Rounded

Maine’s got curves and rounds, so we’re sharing a few for this week’s  Weekly Photo Challenge:  Rounded. A stack of pumpkins at the front door of Newcastle Inn in Newcastle, Maine A bright orange life preserver at Searsport harborA potter rounds the bottom of a vase at Mainely Pottery on Route 1. And who doesn’t love […]

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Travel theme: Handmade

Haakkume Dyunni — Painted Pottery of Acoma Pueblo on exhibit from August 31, 2013 to September 7, 2014 Pueblo of Acoma: Sky City Cultural Museum and Haak’u Museum approximately one hour from Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.acomaskycity.org/ For more handmade items in Ailsa’s challenge on Where’s My Backpack this week — Travel theme: Handmade — click here.

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Lavender Festival 2012: Aromatic Delight!

Reposting so that you can see what’s in store if you attend the 16th Annual Lavender Festival in Historic Jackson Square, Oak Ridge, Tennessee this Saturday, June 21 from 8 to 3. Click here for more information. I could almost smell the Lavender Festival from the parking lot — well, maybe not from that far […]

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A Three-Gallery Night: Dogwood Arts 2014

It was a night of openings at three galleries celebrating that important middle word in Knoxville’s Dogwood Arts Festival: ARTS.  On a warm spring evening  — April 11 — patrons headed to the galleries to view creative pieces by some of the best-known (and some unknown until now) artists in the area.  Combining that Open-House-kinda-feel […]

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Bluff View Art District: Chattanooga View Points

Even on the Fourth of July, Chattanooga’s Bluff View Art District was open for business!  It’s a place unique unto itself — an artist colony of sorts, offering historic lodging, a noteworthy museum, artists’ renderings, and places to relax and eat inside or out.  In fact, all of downtown Chattanooga is unique —  an upscale city devoted […]

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Art DeTour 3: Highland Pottery

You see, my love of Lisa Kurtz’s pottery began at the Webb School ArtXtravaganza when this drippy brown, ragged edge piece beckoned . . . again and again and again.  Believe me, I resisted.  I told Lisa I was looking for a simple vase – something to hold alstroemeria or tulips or hydrangeas from my backyard.  But […]

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