Embroidery

I love Karin Holmberg's new book, Scandinavian Stitch Craft, and used one of her embroidery patterns to make a new pillow. 

Dia de los Muertos

After a perfect ride across the Puget Sound I arrived in the city for the Seattle Art Museum's Dia de los Muertos fiesta. There was a cool sand painting on display, and seeing the Peru exhibit was spellbinding. But what was disturbing about the exhibit was a movie showing grave robbers unearthing ancient objects to sell on the black market. It glorified this horrid act. The intact ancient objects slipped effortlessly from the sand that had encased them for millennia.