Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Make Something, Give it Away, Watch Joy Grow
















Make Something, Give it Away, Watch Joy Grow










LDK Signature Fingerless Gloves in Black Alpaca






























































LDK Ribbed Line Toque






















Make Something and Give it Away
Chilly winter temperatures, long cold nights and days so cold it can't snow make warm handknits especially appreciated this season.
Knitted LDK Signature Fingerless Gloves in black alpaca and LDK Ribbed Line Toque in brown alpaca the last few days and gave them away.
Nothing like the joy of making something from just yarn and time that someone can wear to keep warm and feel loved. The making of the gift and the giving and receiving fill both with joy.
Try it. It takes surprisingly little time and money to handknit or crochet someone a knit scarf or other winter garment, but the warm feeling you both give and get is priceless.
Make something and give it away. Watch the joy grow.
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Knitting and Photos by Charleen Touchette 2009.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Touchette Talks on Nurturing Creativity at Wellesley in NM


At Museums of New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival

Charleen Touchette signs books while daughter Liesette Paisner serves homemade pie.








Reading from "It Stops with Me - Memoir of a Canuck Girl."









Apples for pie.

















Knitting/Walking practice in New Mexico, on beach in Santa Monica or wherever I travel is a moving meditation that makes people smile and tell stories about creative people in their lives.












Knitting in front of New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts










Painting al fresco at The Station trackside at Santa Fe Depot



































Charleen Touchette talks on "Nurturing Creativity for a Life of Purposeful Fulfillment" at Wellesley in New Mexico Club Event this Saturday, December 5th at 2-4 p.m. at Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe at 401 Old Taos Highway, Santa Fe, NM #505 982-8539.Wellesley in New Mexico announcement -"Meet Charleen Touchette, class of 1975, and share in an afternoon presentation of her books, art and activist work for peace with justice. Touchette is the New Mexico Coordinator for Realizing the Dream, Martin Luther King III's Poverty in America Initiative, host and producer of Mixed Blood Radio Archives and author of "It Stops with Me" and "ndn art."

Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe is at the former Plaza Resolana on Paseo de Peralta and 401 Old Taos Highway in Santa Fe.

Click here for mapquest of address - http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Santa+Fe&state=NM&address=401+Old+Taos+Hwy&zipcode=87501-1203&country=US&latitude=35.691888&longitude=-105.938546&geocode=ADDRESS

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Review by Jessica M. Laccetti for WomenWriters.net of "It Stops with Me".


It Stops With Me: Memoir of a Canuck Girl
www.womenwriters.net
Approaching Charleen Touchettes latest textual offering for the first time, readers will be drawn to the unusual cover design. With a smudged grey background, reminiscent of kindergarten pastel-drawing ...

http://www.womenwriters.net/summer06/stopswithme.html















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