Author Archives: Chris

Photographic Mixed Media Artist

Cyber Monday – Lulu Smith

November 26, 2012 by Chris | 2 Comments

You can still shop personal on Cyber Monday

 

I don’t know about you, but I opened up my email this morning to a huge pile of online retailers with tantalizing offers for Cyber Monday specials. Amazon, with their monolithic army of marketers and one-click purchasing, has made it exceedingly easy for us to part with our money, but along with it goes much of the sentiment of the season.

So today, I introduce you to another artist that makes it just as easy, but will embue your gift with deeper meaning. You can buy knowing you are supporting her and her family, and not a nameless, faceless corporation. Continue reading »

Mychal Mitchell – Iona Handcrafted Books

November 25, 2012 by Chris | 4 Comments

medium journal

Iona Handcrafted Books!

If you you know me very well at all, you know how much I love books – any kind of books, and writing, and books, and reading, and did I mention books! So when we met this latin dancing, music lovin’ bookbinder Mychal Mitchell twelve years ago, we became fast friends. Continue reading »

Audrey Heller

November 24, 2012 by Chris | 10 Comments

"Shades"

Small Business Saturday

As part of my “Buy Personal” series, and to celebrate small business Saturday, we want to introduce you to our friend, photographer Audrey Heller, and her wee people going about their small business. Continue reading »

Buy Personal – Erin McGrane and Jeff Freling

November 23, 2012 by Chris | 23 Comments

As the countdown to Christmas officially begins, I have been thinking about what is important to Kyle and me and how we live that through this season. The holidays are the perfect time to celebrate what is the center of our life – to live creatively and to support others that do the same.

For the last couple of years, we have been able to successfully embody that in our gift giving by only giving things we or our friends have made. We try to take buying local one step further and “Buy Personal”. Continue reading »

Recollections of a Home and Family that Once Was…

November 22, 2012 by Chris | 2 Comments

Grandmommie & DaddyBuck

I posted this letter last year but it is my annual tradition to read this letter first thing on Thanksgiving morning, and really once a year isn’t enough. So I hope you enjoy it once again!

It was written on Thanksgiving Day, 1945 by my Grandfather Rev. Dr. W.W. Jones to my Grandmother, Adena White Jones, while he was away in the army. They were newlyweds and they were expecting their first child – my father. I am thankful!

Thanksgiving Day, 1945

…All the reams of paper couldn’t contain the mercies that I’m thankful for today, for they pass my imagination in a never-ending parade. The rain of yesterday, the bright sunshine of today: the little ponds of ice I saw outside this morning, a shelter warm as toast: memories, rich and mellow, embroidered with hearty friendship and camaraderie; enemies – and the joy of being able not to hate them; cool water from a spring on a long, hot hike; good food that makes one comfortable inside; flitting glimpses out of the past that now seems so far away, so much apart of another world that one gives pause to think – could it be so and could that have been me? Continue reading »

Pick of the week, Nov 19

November 19, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. —  Tecumseh

 

Mile Marker 270, 22x34

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Breathe and be Thankful

November 16, 2012 by Chris | 1 Comment

In the last few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I got to where I am right now, and where I want to go next. The end of my travel season always becomes a time of reflection as I slow down, take stock and begin to make plans for the following year. Continue reading »

Pick of the week, November 12

November 12, 2012 by Chris | 1 Comment

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. – William Hazlitt

 

Mile Marker 294, 35x51

 

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Pecha Kucha

November 9, 2012 by Chris | 5 Comments

What the heck is a Pecha Kucha?

 

A Pecha Kucha is a presentation format used to combat “death by powerpoint”, and is a format many creative professionals are using to present their work. It is designed to be 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each, with self advancing slides so you can’t blather on and on. Continue reading »

Pick of the week, Nov 5

November 5, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. — Albert Schweitzer

 

Mile Marker 313, 16x22

Please contact me if you are interested in adding this or any other piece to your collection.