Family Currents

Where do we all get our impetus to do our the various things we do?  For some us it starts when we were little or finding the right thing that led to another in college.  At least one hopes so.  And then for people like me there is a long, long family lineage.  Starting from my great great granny I’ve had some serious craftiness going on in my family.  I like to think I inherited those genes now as I look back upon my family tree.  For as long as I can remember I’ve had “restless hand syndrome”.  And a need to overwork the physical world when it comes to the things I love.  Even if I were to stop making jewelry today… there would need to be some new outlet for that restlessness…

My great great grandmother – Helena’s pine needle baskets… Florida.  This one is split wood.

My great grandmother – Odetta’s knit sweater, she could see a dress on t.v. and make it without a pattern….crochet anything too.  I inherited a ton of cool clothes that were at one time or another were ‘Odetta originals’….

My mom – Nancy’s hand-dyed wool hooked rugs…  There are at least a hundred in their home… lining the stairs and rolled up under the beds…  This one she made for my eldest daughter Georgia.  I love the 3 tooths saying…

My “fairy-god-mother”  Yes they really do make them! And mine is most fabulous…..hand made paper with woodblock prints… okay so she’s a fine artist and she’s not a blood relative but we can bend the rules just this once…