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| Artwork by Nina Katharina Sandberg |
Don't you just love illustrations like this? It inspires me to create something in needlework. It inspires me to remember that I find solace in Nature. As many are planning for large Thanksgiving dinners, I know that soon my family will commemorate of the loss of my sister, Lyn a year ago this month. I'll write about that later as the anniversary of that sad date approaches, but this image wants me to ask these sweet creatures to add just one more room.
My uncle, his wife and family lived in an earth berm home many years ago. He's been gone a long time, and she's moved into a lake home on land they purchased decades ago. I've often contemplated the benefits of an earth berm home. How it nestles into the countryside, temperatures inside regulated by the earth. Safe from tornadoes and other weather events. I think the older I get, the more I favor the idea.
For now, I'm sharing this image as a way to save it for future inspiration. I may just sit down and draw my own version for the time when I'll create an underground cocoon in fabric and threads. Another item for my "To Do Before I Die" list. sigh
ooooh - the thought of recreating such a scene with needle and threads is exciting! I hope you do it!! I can 'see' parts of it done with a similar technique to your birds - and some stumpwork for additional details. What fun!!!
ReplyDeleteHi MA:
DeleteGreat minds! Exactly the techniques I'm contemplating! Perhaps a project for after the holidays? I think so!
xoxo
Donna
That is a very cozy picture. LOL! To accomplish everything on my Creative To Do list I'd probably have to live to be 197...then, again, if I lived that long the list would continue to grow, too... /-; It's amazing how quickly the year has gone by...I hope time has softened the sharpness of the pain of missing your sister...at least a little bit.❤️
ReplyDeleteHi Lois:
DeleteI think I'd need to live to infinity, too. So much I'd love to do, especially since I've been fine tuning my techniques. I came across a Halloween card from Lyn - in the most unexpected place today. It was a funny card, and I'm sure I laughed with her over it at the time. Today I cried. I know it will get easier (the closer I get to seeing her again), but for now, tears come easily. Thanks, dear.
xoxo
Donna
Sherry of createology: I do adore this image. I do not think I would like an earthen abode. I love sunshine and rain and windows to see birds and nature. I also am not going into a coffin and be buried under ground…it just does not appeal to me. I rather like how my Grandma’s wealthy Aunt Flossie is resting in a marble crypt. It has always seemed luxurious to (silly) me. I must watercolor now!
ReplyDeleteHi Sherry:
DeleteOh, I couldn't be completely underground either. I'm thinking most of the house under ground - dug into a hillside - with the front all windows that I could shutter closed from the outside with storm shutters if needed. Otherwise, light would pour in the windows to brighten the house. Perhaps a floor plan where the living room, dining room and kitchen were in the front, and the bedrooms up three steps so that they could also catch light through walls with windows of sliding doors (covered at night with curtains, of course). It would be more contemporary than cottage-y. As far as being buried underground - that's a nope for me, too. I also don't want to ever turn up in some bodies exhibit, so "ashes to ashes" for me. Scatter my remains over a leaf-carpeted woodland where I can rest among the opossums, raccoons, deer and other wild critters. I won't really be there anyway.
xoxo
Donna
Love this illustration. Can't wait to see what you come up with.
ReplyDeleteThere's a house close to here that has 1 on their land.
I always wonder if they use it, as there is another big farmhouse there.
The house & land is now for sale.
Marilyn
This is beautiful! Do you happen to sell prints anywhere?
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