the peaceful peacock

:: Orig­i­nally pub­lished in Novem­ber, 2008.  :: As the cold weather shyly makes its appear­ance around here, we’ve been hap­pily cooped up inside enjoy­ing the peace­ful­ness of an ordi­nary daily expe­ri­ence. A wel­come break after such an abun­dance of activ­ity dur­ing the sum­mer months! With baby num­ber two on the way, I’m expe­ri­enc­ing another wave of […]

I was inspired to write the infor­ma­tion about the Sym­bol­ism of Pea­cocks while I was work­ing on a head­band for The Shop. Ini­tially, I had planned on a sim­ple flo­ral design painted with wool but when I cro­cheted the bor­der onto the head­band every­thing changed. The felted design was lost next to the mag­nif­i­cence of […]