Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Projects in action!
He's wearing the Placket-Neck Pullover and the Rainbow Marley hat.
Cute, eh?
Bad Cupcake Baker...
Friday, June 12, 2009
Bunny Nuggets
Here are a few of the Bunny Nuggets I made for Easter presents. These two went to my newest nephew and his older brother.
And here are their little bunny butts. Thanks to my friend Amy for the heads up on this cute pattern!
Hmm,
Also, 'knitted handkerchief' is one of the categories. Do people knit handkerchiefs??? ew.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The Red Army
I'm not really a modern art fan, but this was one of the pieces I did like at Kentuck Knob. The Red Army by Ray Smith is made up of hundreds and hundreds of silhouettes of people all lined up in a field, their arms raised in celebration? or terror?
A Trio of Phone Booths
Kentuck Knob is currently owned by Lord Palumbo of the British House of Lords. He has added bits of Britain to the property, as well as a modern art sculpture garden throughout the meadows of the property.
He has a British phone booth near the visitor center, but then on the sculpture walk you suddenly come upon these three booths perched in a field. I loved it, as well as the thought of not one but three people walking through a meadow and suddenly needing to make a call at the same time! :-)
Kentuck Knob two...
A view of the side of the house off into the trees. Look at the moulding and carvings under the eaves, it goes all around the house along with the beautiful carvings over the windows.
Kentuck Knob was completed in 1956 when Frank Lloyd Wright was 86, it was one of his last completed homes.
Kentuck Knob
From Fallingwater, we went to another nearby Frank Lloyd Wright house - Kentuck Knob. This photo shows the back of the house, as it goes into the side of the landscape, and a little terrace water garden.
One more from Fallingwater...
Along the lines of the house being part of its surroundings again - that curve in the beam? Just to save that tree and make it part of the house.
Fallingwater - from the front walk
Here's another view of Fallingwater... that staircase going down into the water actually goes all the way up into the living room! It has this whole cantilever design thing going on, where it seems not to even be supported. As he frequently did, he wanted the house to be part of the surroundings. "Frank Lloyd Wright told them that he wanted them to live with the waterfalls, to make them part of their everyday life, and not just to look at them now and then."