Shibori

Look for Cinamon Lily Studios at The Castleberry Holiday Craft Festival on December 12 & 13 at Rockingham Park, Salem, New Hampshire. This is a juried show where you will be able to purchase my one-of-a-kind silk shibori scarves and men's neck ties.

350 Day

International Climate Action Day was on October 24th. Bill Mckibben started this movement to bring attention to the global climate crisis. Our atmosphere is at 390 parts per million of co2, and we need to be at 350ppm to prevent the melting of the polar ice caps, and other irreversible impacts of global warming.

I worked with students from Phillips Exeter Academy and the Newburyport Environmental Club to help them understand this problem and take part in the international action. We created Healing blankets with 350 on them. This summer I will be taking all the blankets I have made with various groups to West Virginia to give to families whose lives have been impacted by mountain top removal coal mining. I will also plant many of them my self on the damage sites in the mountains. This trip has struck a cord with many people I have met, and a carvan of people will be coming with me.

4th of July

July 4th, 2009 I joined 1 Sky and the Sierra Club at the Amherst 4th of July Parade. We marched in the parade to raise awareness about Global Warming, and the use of coal for energy in our state. I wrapped my self up in a healing blanket for the earth, and passed out pamphlets about mountain top removal coal mining. I hope to place the blanket on a mountain top removal site to help regenerate the damaged eco system later this summer.

Garden Path Healing Blanket

May 23, 2009 I created the garden path healing blanket with the children from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Milford, New Hampshire. We made flowers using colorful pre-felts, and then the seeds and other organic materials were added. The church is going to keep part of the 3'x8' blanket to decorate their Sunday school room. They will be cutting off a section and sending it to a UU church in West Virginia.

Before the blanket was made the congregation was invited to attend a power point presentation about mountain top removal coal mining. The section of blanket mailed to West Virginia will be planted to help restore the damaged landscape by the mining of coal and connect our communities.

Homeless Polar Bear

April 22 2009 Earth Day in Boston. These are a couple of photos of the homeless polar bear performance. I went to town with My GAL (Green Artist League) buddies to bring attention to the plight of the polar bear and the melting ice caps due to global warning. I washed car windows  asked people for ice, and pushed a shopping cart around, completed with a big salmon in the seat. This was a very affective performance, we engaged 100's of people walking through the streets of Boston.