Winter Show at Six Rivers Gallery

Six Rivers Gallery


210 Sixth Street in Hoquiam

Winter Show continues to April 17

If you missed our opening, it is not too late to see our Winter Show.

Six Rivers Gallery is open Friday and Saturday 10 - 5, and Sunday 1 - 5. and by appointment 360-532-9979

Our next show will feature art on the theme Birds & Estuaries. As the shorebirds return to Grays Harbor, local artists will fill the gallery with art in tune with this seasonal event.

Did Anyone Read My Post about Journaling? ( It's in February 2011)

Just wondering if any of you are trying it. It would make my day to know that I managed to get  someone to record some of their experiences and thoughts. Hey, if you are a scrapbooker, you could even fancy it up some. Or if you are like me, and not much of a scrapper, you can have a place like Blurb.com make your journal or blog into a real live book. I'm going to do that. I thought I'd only been blogging for a year, but it turns out it's been more than two! So I guess I'll have to have them do TWO books. I think my grandgirls will like having them someday when they're older. They're 19 months and five years now--a little young to read my blogs!

Latest Sock Bunny---Or I'm Obsessed, Yet Again!

This little gal is made from a cotton baby sock;  she's wearing a sweater made from part of a felted sweater (from a thrift store, of course).  I "pink" her ears and blush her cheeks with a colored pencil.

The Too Late Snowman

The Too Late Snowman: sounds like the title to a children's book! This is a snowman I used to make from the little white net bags that vine-ripened tomatoes came in at the grocery store. But then, for some reason, THEY decided to make the bags red, instead of white,  and I could no longer use the tomato bags for my little snowmen.  I really liked those snowmen, too, because I could recycle those tomato bags and also could make use of "orphaned" socks. Teachers at the school where I taught saved those bags for me, and I always had enough for afterschool craft classes.

But then, one day, I had a brain wave, and wondered if I could make those same snowmen out of those puffy net things that some people use in the shower.  I bought one the other day from the Dollar Tree and found that one of those things had enough net to make eight snowmen--they each use about 11 inches of the net. 

That makes this project cheap enough to use for class projects; the most expensive ingredient is the stuffing, but it's not THAT expensive if you watch rummage sales, etc. And even if you have to pay full price, a three dollar bag will probably stuff five or six snowmen--maybe more . I usually use socks for the hats, but this one has the end of a sweater sleeve from a shrunk wool sweater. Shrunk sweaters go very cheap at rummage sales--no one is going to WEAR one!!! This little guy has matching scarf and mittens made from the waistband of a thrift store wool skirt.  I use such wool fabric to make some of my wool cats (see below), etc. but the waistbands are too small for that purpose, so I was happy to find  a use for them.

You might be wondering why this is a Too Late snowman. The reason is that I sat on my hands too long and it got to be mid February before I thought about teaching this project at our little gallery. No one wants to think about snow in March, even though snow sometimes happens here then (7 1/2 inches of it on March 7th one year). Snow in March ticks everyone off. Snow in April is even worse!! So this little guy will have to wait until next winter to model for a class. No problem for me; it will be here before I turn around. The trick will be to remember where he is when I need him next winter.

Sock Rabbit

This is the sock rabbit we will be making in the March 27, class. Details will be announced soon and I will add them here.

Tree Man, in Progress

This is a project our doll club in Puyallup is working on. We are each making a Tree Doll--we started them at club last week; it will be interesting to see (next month) how they all turn out. I guarantee they will all be as different as the people making them are. I'll post pictures here of as many as I can.  Stay tuned.

Latest Sock Monkey

She's a sweetie!