by martita | Feb 11, 2025 | Pet Loss
Supporting someone whose pet has died is an amazing gift you can offer them. To be comforted with consoling words or gestures makes it a bit more bearable in that moment and throughout the grieving process. Imagine you receive an early morning call or text that goes...
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by martita | Feb 23, 2023 | Fabric Art Techniques
There has been a clowder of fabric pet portraits and pet memorials on my design wall this fall/winter. What’s a clowder? Clowder: a group of cats. Over the 16 years that I have created custom pet portraits and memorials, the overwhelming number of customer requests...
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by martita | Sep 29, 2022 | Inspirations
Preparing for an art show is like getting back on a bicycle, except since it’s been 32 months since my last show, I had to: take inventory, redesign the booth layout, order what I needed, put fresh covers on the matted pictures, rewire some wall hangings with stronger...
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by martita | Aug 22, 2022 | Animal Stories, Inspirations
What About Me? is one of my artistic responses to the current climate emergency that is facing us. I am not a climatologist like Jake who does climate research and is spending the summer at Evening Song Farm, CSA. (Scroll to end of newsletter). My art isn’t activist...
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by martita | Aug 10, 2022 | Inspirations
Sunflowers, fuschia, coneflowers, black-eyes susans, painted daisies, tulips, lilies, zinnias and pansies are some examples of fabric flowers I have created, as well as tended in my gardens over the years. Fabric flowers offer a fabulous opportunity to play with color...
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