Recycled Circles

Recycled Circles. I teach this workshop and, am continually surprised at the variety one project can inspire. This is one finished recently, under the influence of Lyric Kinard's Bead it Like you Mean It DVD.






Thanks to Ellen for this gorgeous grouping of fabrics!



I'll be teaching "Recycled Circles" in San Diego, on April 9; at CREATE in Irvine, CA on June 1 and in Kentucky on October 12. You can see my teaching schedule here.

My first book (okay, it's self published)

Cuba by Jane LaFazio | Make Your Own Book

I made a book of some of my photos from Cuba. It's 32 pages and here's a preview of some of the pages.  It's for sale.

Cuba ~ Community

   

   


   
We visited the home of Jose Fuster, a mosaic artist who had covered his home, and with the help of the community, much of his adjoining neighborhood.
   

We had a delicious lunch (with Cuba Libres of course) at Jose Fuster's home.
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We also visited Mario Pelgrin Pozo's home. He's created a community center, in his neighborhood. There are kids art lessons, dance lessons, and a small garden. He's done this for 11 years, relying on as he put it, 'non-government donations.'
  




I donated a bag of watercolor sets and told  Mario I'd love to come and teach the kids for a week someday. He grinned and pointed to 'my room!' (below) and invited me to check it out.
    
My future lodgings.
    





As you can tell, we totally enjoyed our tour with Cuban Cultural Travel. 

photo by Petey Dietz

photo by Petey Dietz

photo by Petey Dietz

I hope you've enjoyed seeing Cuba, through my eyes...... You can see all the photos here.

Cuba ~ exterior walls

Cuba's location, with his heat, humidity, salt air and hurricanes, is hard on the buildings. Not to mention, that most everything is at least 100 years old and untouched.

There is no real graffiti, as we Americans know it. Mostly message-laden artwork.





I can't image what this means??? but it makes me smile. (above)










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Tomorrow Cuba Community. And my last post (for now) on Cuba.

Cuba ~ Spiritual Practice

We visited a church, with its American Pastor. They have programs for the community, including this Senior Citizen one. That's husb, saying hola to everyone.
  


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Santeria, is a belief that's a combination of African and Cuban, with it's own symbols and rituals. We visited a small neighborhood  (Callejon de Hamel) in Havana, covered in these mysterious (to me) imagines.

 




Tomorrow's post exterior walls in Cuba