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..the daily life of a hermit and her dog ...
River Echo
September, 2010
Welcome to Oma's World.
Welcome to Oma's world: a hermitage set on a pristine lake, nestled in mountains, surrounded by trees and inhabited by Oma, Kenya (her own dog) and the dogs she looks after.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
My Other Blogs
Kenya
My Lady of the Lake
Some of My Regular (and Occasional) Haunts
About Me
- Oma
- ... a woman who has been many women and will likely continue to metamorphose right til the end ... I have been a mother, a grandmother, a writer, a teacher, a traveler, a nomad,a hermit, a dog sitter, and a sporadic folk artist wannabe. Right now I am also a tiny-time-chef and caterer. Who knows where my travels will lead me as I travel down the final stretch of life's road?
Blogs for Writers
Followers
Something I Noticed Recently
- "A first draft is a work of construction. A seventh is the work of an artist." Barbara Kingsolver
Kenya's Sleepover Buddies
- Peach, a gentle 5 year old Lassie-type Collie
- Oberon, King of the Cat Fairies
- Corey, a 7 year old Golden Retriever
- Kitty, AKA Button, 8 weeks
- Tom Cat, 1 year old... run over November, 2010
- Olive, the 2 year old black lab
- Chelsea, the old and lumpy black lab on steroids
- Mica, the Siberian Husky
- Maggie, the two year old Berner
- Stella, the 7 month old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy
- Tango, the Ancient Sheep Dog, now deceased
- Zeke, the Nova Scotia Duck Toller, now deceased
- Henry, Marta's Golden Retriever
- Lulu, the tiny Cockapoo puppy
- Havoc, the Doberman
- Remi, Sarah's Golden Doodle
- Tango, the Golden Lab mix
- Teddy and Shea, Tammy and Carlos' dogs
- Nina, the Chocolate Lab, now re-homed because of viciousness
Blog Archive
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2009
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April
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- Learning by Doing
- Chair in Progress
- I could become a chair lady!
- Let's Play Pretend ...
- On Fear and Feeling ...
- The Fearful Hermit
- Having Fun
- Great Gala!
- My Big Date
- My Stash Chest
- Here it is!
- Time Just Disappears
- The Imagination Corner
- A New Life
- Imagination Box 2
- Imagination Box
- Still Alive ... Painting and Knitting ...
- Phone Avoidance
- Busy Weekend
- Made the mistake of going back to the Guild show ...
- The seaman's cap for Eric
- The Week that Was ...
- Tammy's Flow Paintings
- New Wine Cups Front and Centre
- Do you procrastinate foolishly too?
- Running in Circles
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April
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Films I am Watching (reviewed are starred)
- Blood Diamond
- Amazing Grace
- Rosenstrasse
- The Blade Runner
- My Cousin Vinnie
What I am Reading These Days
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
- What They Wanted by Donna Morrissey
- Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather o'Neill
- Merle's Door: Lessons from a Free Thinking Dog by Ted Kerasote
8 comments:
How wonderful!!!
I love it!!!
You may have a hard time working near it though...your eyes will always be drawn to it!
I can't wait to see it in real life...it looks so happy and colourful and folk-arty!
You have done a fantastic job on both this and the box...you are never going to want to leave this room!
I love it too! It's gorgeous.
I love it too.the colours are wonderful
Thank you all. I makes me happy every time I look up from the keyboard.
really funky! congrats!
It looks great mum! Now I'm all inspired to do the same kind of free drawing design on the boys' dresser using some of Wild Thing's drawings as inspiration.
Did you do the top as well? The patterning around the edges is really wonderful!
Mud mama ... didn't do the top ... it wasn't going to be visible so I didn't think it was worth the effort. Maybe later.
Something I learned that might help you as you do yours is that I found it easier to do the drawing in chalk and then go over it in pencil once I was satisfied. It is easier to brush off chalk than to erase pencil marks.
Good idea!
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