Truth and Beauty
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- A Day in the Life.....
- angry chicken
- blurbomat.com
- Cherry House Quilts
- Chris Sacca's 'What is left?'
- Daily Art Muse
- David Lebovitz
- dooce®
- Film in the Fridge
- Fresh Figs
- GoFugYourself
- HELLOmynameisHeather
- Hygge House
- i heart linen
- Jane Sassaman's Idea Book
- Janet Hill Studio Blog
- journal
- Kate McKinnon
- Laura Foster Nicholson
- Laurie Wisbrun | Scarlet Fig
- Lifehacker
- LizzyHouse
- Melanie Moertel Lampwork Beads
- moving hands
- Mrs. Schmenkman Quilts
- my aunt june
- oh fransson
- Orangette
- Paint in My Hair
- Photojojo
- Poppytalk archive
- Portabellopixie
- Red Pepper Quilts
- Saídos da Concha
- smitten kitchen
- Spoonflower blog
- Sublime Stitching - This ain't your gramma's embroidery!
- Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with Needles
- tallgrass prairie studio
- The latest episodes from On The Media
- the textile blog
- True Up
- Tula Pink
- U-handblog
- unurth - street art
| Occupation | Truth And Beauty |
|---|---|
| Location | Nowhere near the Collider, And no, not in the EU |
| Introduction | I started blogging when I wearied of racing purebred gerbils in the Large Hadron Collider. Why "truth & beauty"? Here's the story: In my former career as an architect, I worked in the London office of an American architectural firm for a while. The project architect for the project that I was working on was a tall lanky lad from the USA, who was personally responsible for checking every single steel reinforcing drawing that came across his desk for a particular international bank's renovation. A lot of responsibility and no nourishment for the soul. One morning when I came into work I found him surrounded by about 10 stacks of steel reinforcing drawings, all about three feet high. I asked him how he was, and his mournful response was:"Hell, Lysa, I went to school to learn how to create Truth and Beauty and look what I'm doing now." |
| Interests | Truth and Beauty; quilts; fabric; the ocean; skateboarding; France; Italy; knitting; reading; Japanese culture and handicraft; making jewelry out of pure fine silver, PMC, felt, seed beads, copper, sequins; making handmade bags big and small; making handmade silk scarves and bowties; handmade anything; swimming; cats; Pacific Northwest; Vancouver BC; historic preservation; glass studio art; Museum of Glass docent. |
| Favorite Movies | Philadelphia Story, Z, In the Heat of the Night, Diva, Lawrence of Arabia, My Fair Lady, Rear Window, North By Northwest, all of the "new" Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, Citizen Kane, almost any Robert Altman film, True Detective, Justified, Treme, and yes, I admit it, Real Housewives... |
| Favorite Music | Blues, jazz, world music, but I'm an NPR junkie, bottom line. If you see me with an iPod and headphones, that's usually what I'm listening to. |
| Favorite Books | too many to name. on my night table right now is the newest book about Robert Altman whom I adore. I read the New Yorker cover to cover every week. I seem to prefer non-fiction and the occasional murder mystery. |