Travels With Scissors

The documented adventures of a fiber artist set loose on the world.

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Or Rainbow's End is at the Inverness Church of Scotland

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Rainbow's End is at Inverness Castle

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Sean Woodrow & David Corns

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editor: Top toast post, back by popular demand…

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Sean Woodrow & David Corns

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editor: Top toast post, back by popular demand…

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Robert Wilson conjures a performance art spectacle in Milan to launch Illy’s new artist-designed ceramics

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Eye'm looking forward to coming home. Last minute sewing before packing up Cruella for the journey.

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So foggy/ smoggy today, near 90f too. Bleah.

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So many things to turn on before I can even get started sewing the purple bullseye together. Transformer so machine doesn't blow up again! Music of course. If the iron goes on so does the A/C. Finally the machine with extra LED light. Okay, go!

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Why of course, a knife and fork are required for cookie eating at Starbucks.

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All the lines and shapes, just thought it was a nice composition.

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Swatch racks out on the street. We saw shops specializing in denim, silk, rayon prints, fake fur and leather.

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When the brain’s default mode network yields incredible and useful insight, allows us to process higher-level, abstract information including social, emotional, and moral implications, helps us learn about ourselves, and derive meaning from our experiences — it’s hard to justify why we should so readily trade all this away for a bursting calendar, another round of Candy Crush, or electric shocks.

via Why Curbing Your Fear of Being Alone Leads to Better Thinking (via idonethis)

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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

Kurt Vonnegut (via theriverjordyn) Why not? It will make you happier. (via artquiltmaker)

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An upstairs McD's, where we tried the lychee fruit punch. Imagine fruit cocktail plus soda water, pretty refreshing.

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The three things I bought in Hong Kong in the fabric district. Lace collars to add to t-shirts, all for less than $5.00. From hongkongjohnson lace company.

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Night view from the ferry back to SZ. I liked how the interior ceiling lights look like rows of approaching UFO's.

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The countryside whizzes by so quickly when the train's moving so fast. This was the least blurriest picture I was able to take.