I went to the American Visionary Art Museum on Saturday. What a great museum! I could only take pictures on the outside – and there is a lot outside. There’s even more inside. This is a museum dedicated to outsider art. The art is personal, quirky, very accessible, and I do love it!

There is a wonderful mirror mosaic on the outside of the building. It was begun by Jack Livingston and later taken over by Mari Gardner. Both were assisted by students.

The sparkly glass/mirror tree is like Christmas all year round!

The mirrored mosaic egg is pretty wonderful too.

The wooden meditation chapel in the wildflower garden is way cool. You can climb up in it.

That’s where I found this fine fellow. If you find yourself in Baltimore, don’t miss this museum!

I’m not a big city girl so I’m finding a lot to look at as we walk around in Baltimore. I thought this decoupaged door was interesting. I had not ever considered decoupaging an exterior door.

I’m not sure that I’m crazy about the colors on this particular door but the idea is really great. The “decoupager” also used blackboard paint very well. What a great place to leave notes for people.

I think the thing that I find so appealing about town houses is that they are similar to each other, but different. People put their individual stamp on them. It was the painted stairs that caught my eye here.

 

I like this power pole with electrical wires coming out in rays. Jeff thought I was crazy but where we live most of the power lines are buried.

 

The orange door with black mailboxes were fun – especially at Halloween.

 

 

I returned from Quilt Festival yesterday. Upon my return I found out my internet service had been down for 2 days. If that was not enough the auto reply to emails said I would return on the 20th instead of October 31st.

I will be teaching and giving a lecture Monday and Tuesday for the guild in Annapolis. Luckily for me Annapolis and Baltimore are very, very close to each other so I’ve come in early to visit my son, Jeff.

I thought you might be interested in the finished quilt that Steve was sewing the sleeve and binding on in my last post. Some of you may remember seeing this quilt when it was in progress. I made it last spring in a Ruth McDowell workshop at an Empty Spools seminar. I call it Coffee Cup.

My husband, Steve, is a biologist. He’s a behavioral ecologist who studies long-horned beetles to be exact. He is on the faculty at Austin College and is currently dean of the sciences. He cooks (almost every meal since we’ve been married) and now he sews! Specifically he hand sews my bindings and sleeves.