Pennywood Lane #6

 It seems I cannot count. I was sitting in my living room and saw this quilt on my picture ledge. I missed adding this to the list on yesterday's post. Duh. It's #6 Pennywood Lane, also 12x12" hand dyed, and commercial cottons, fused, hand embroidered, machine quilted, and stitched at the corners to a (fused) fabric wrapped artist canvas. 

When I first saw pictures of this house online, I was so excited by the woodwork on the walls in the living room and the room I saw as my future studio. It had a built in ledge to prop up artwork. No NAILS!!! The place was made for me. Praise the Lord! I bought it on the spot. Two weeks later and I was in. 

It has it's drawbacks, like faulty wiring which we have been dealing with since day one. Yesterday it got fixed again but I decided with my contractor to rewire the entire house, once and for all. I guess I am committed to staying, she says.

There were a few nails already in the walls, so I was OK with hanging this mirror, but I really try to avoid pounding nails into plaster walls. 

 When I saw the house in person, I knew it was made for me. As I unpacked, I found spots for almost all of my smaller mounted works. 

I have propped up my drawings, collages, photos and paintings, as well as work by other artists that I have collected over the years. 

I needed a place for my jacket and purse, so I mounted a Command Hook there on the woodwork. It stayed stuck, thankfully. 

This house was built in 1960 and another little old lady lived in til she was 96. Unfortunately no improvements were  made in all those years, and so the flipper made choices about what to fix or not fix, and I imagine this woodwork was added for the sake of character. He musta saw me coming.