Today Theresa and I delivered and installed a floorcloth to a home right here in Weathersfield. This was a very interesting project because the homeowners requested it to be T-shaped to offer the most coverage for their well-used front entryway. Since they live just 2 miles away, I visited the home and took measurements and photos and even met face-to-face with their sheep and chickens! That was last fall when the leaves were still on the trees and the grass was still at least a little green. I snapped a shot of the view from the living room window:

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What was that? Did I hear someone ask, “What’s a floor cloth?”"

Well it’s a piece of very heavyweight canvas, several times thicker than a painter’s drop cloth, which has been shrunk, primed and sewn to whatever size is needed. Then layers and layers of flexible, durable paint are applied, a design appears, and then the final 5 coats of flexible polyurethane are applied.

So where can you use it? Just about anywhere your floor is bare- front hall, kitchen sink, or dining room, or (my favorite) under the kitchen table, where the most food gets spilled, the most dogs hang out and where kids insist on making a mess!

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Today I went on a little journey. Understand that I rarely leave my little paradise here in Weathersfield, but from time to time I have to hit the pavement and show people my floorcloths and check out what the rest of the world is doing. I headed Southwest to Manchester, Vermont, about an hour’s drive away. I drove through snow squalls and over huge potholes. It’s not even spring here and we’re paying the price of a very snowy winter!

One of my first stops was Equinox Antiques , where I met with owner, Mark Reinfurt. As I stepped inside the door and took a quick look around his shop, a painting caught my eye. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you who don’t know me very well, I have a little bit of a split personality thing. I design and paint and hang out in the studio for what seems like endless hours (and this time of year it pretty much is) but when I’m not in the studio I’m usually in the barn or sitting on a horse. I have been a “horseperson” a lot longer than I’ve been an “artisan”. Read the rest of this entry »

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