Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: crafts

  • Little Spring

       Do you feel it? Spring is coming! Our first sign is always Audrey’s birthday. We always say, “Audrey’s birthday brings the daffodils.” And its always about now that they start popping up, the first sign that the long brown bareness of an Oklahoma winter is about to come to an end.   For her birthday,…

  • Tasha Tuesday: Autumn Candles

       It’s a cold and frosty morning here in Oklahoma, probably our chilliest yet of the autumn. It’s the kind of morning where you want lots of hot coffee and pumpkin bread slathered in homemade jam. And pretty books to look at, of course, as you ponder the start of the day.      …

  • Illustration inspiration: Varenka

    A long while ago Audrey and I happened into a used book store. From the shelves I pulled this old library book, some of its pages stamped “discard” and from the moment I saw it, I was in love. Published in the 70s by “Bernadette”, (later editions say Bernadette Watts)  the book Varenka tells the…