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I
bought this peice using non-wedding money during the St. Paul Art Crawl
from an artist named Ken Green. The peice is named City Lights. I'm not
exactly sure what struck me about it, I just found it beautiful and
liked how it is cut out in the shape of the city. |
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I
bought this from a vendor at the Saturday Market in Portland Oregon. I
like clocks, and I like creatve uses of materials. |
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Neither
the thumb nor the larger image of this do it justice, you have to see
it in person. It is a hand carved castle (made from puter.) Each
room is a scene from a fairy tale. I found it with Emily in Salzburg,
Austria. |
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This
is an original painting by Joan Hitchens, a friend of mine, that she
gave Tony and me for our non-wedding. |
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This is a Hmong story
cloth. A lot of people assume they are a long standing tradition for
passing on stories and legends. That is not the case, the Hmong people
pass on their traditions orally. The Hmong people started making thier
cloths in the refugee camps in Thailand when they were displaced
following the war in Laos in the 1970s. This cloth tells the story of the journey of the Hmong people - from China to Laos to Thailand (including a dangerous crossing of the Mekong River) to the United States. I wanted to get a Hmong story cloth before I left Minnesota because I was first introduced to the Hmong people and culture when I came here, and work with so many Hmong teenagers that I wanted something to remember that experience by. |