Artist Friends : Jill Berry Blog

In mid-December my friend Deedee had her annual women’s dress up ornament exchange party. 40 fabulous women in a room with trading, champagne, food, and lots of shenanigans is my kind of evening. I laughed, a lot.
Have to say I went there with a mission, to get the ornament Deedee herself made. One has to [...]

Angel Ann, and Andrew

Posted on November 20, 2009 - Filed Under Artist Friends | 5 Comments

Today I am thinking of two people, Ann Van Tassell, and Andrew van der Merwe. Ann is my friend, and the friend of many, who just passed away from a long, long struggle with breast cancer. Andrew is a lettering artist in South Africa. Both are calligraphers, both are people who strive to make the [...]

Paul Johnson, day 1

Posted on May 14, 2009 - Filed Under Artist Friends | 7 Comments

Paul Johnson, a book artist from Manchester, England, is staying with us this week. He is conducting four workshops for our guild that took me three years to get organized. It was almost like a wedding in the level of ordeal and then whoosh, the time is here and rapidly rushing by. Yesterday we went [...]

One World, One Heart. More!

Posted on February 7, 2009 - Filed Under Artist Friends | 1 Comment

A little earlier I was writing about the Inversion of the Dark Ages, how many blessed events are occurring to replace the bad stories and events of the last decade. Has anyone noticed that there are 911 participants in this particular event? 9/11 done over, in a good way. A positive relationship between those numbers, [...]

One World One Heart

Posted on February 3, 2009 - Filed Under Artist Friends | 138 Comments

I am coming in here at the very last second with my giveaway. I made this to celebrate, and you can have one too. Lisa Swifka has a dream of hooking people up via blogging and gifts. You just have to sign up, make friends, and give something away. This is my offering.

It is a [...]

Books, Talismans, Torture and Acting

Posted on September 6, 2008 - Filed Under About me, Artist Friends | Leave a Comment

I am obsessive compulsive on the subject of book making. This last week I made about 15 books. Sometimes I start with the text, sometimes I start with a certain piece of paper; Folding is one of my inexplicable pleasures, painting papers is my passion.
What I did this week was small books full of wishes [...]

Kindness and the Election

Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under Artist Friends | Leave a Comment

I am having a complex time of it lately. First of all, I am an election delegate for the first time. Seems I have some rather strong views that, interestingly enough, are being satisfied by this process. It also means that the phone rings all day long from people who want my support. Add on [...]