Category Archives: Teaching

The Breeze, Pt. II: The Question of Awnings

Posted on August 29, 2015 by smallhousepress

In Sunday’s funnies, a man encircled by boisterous children confesses to his wife, “I thought I knew all the answers, but they keep thinking up new questions,” which reminded me of one of our workshop students. “Why doesn’t my work … Continue reading →

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The Last of the Bungalows: A Labor of Love

Posted on May 30, 2015 by smallhousepress

1994 Bungalow teaching project, currently residing at the National Museum of Toys & Miniatures in Kansas City Our obsession with Charles & Henry Greene, and the Arts and Crafts Bungalow style, reached its finale in late 1994 when we started the … Continue reading →

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Maine Idyll, # 48, 1991: The Outers and Unders

Posted on December 1, 2013 by smallhousepress

            To unwind from the 1990 Guild School workshop in Castine, ME, we took the slow, winding route down the Maine coast. Just north of Freeport, where Route 1 prepares to enter the Maine Turnpike, … Continue reading →

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The Airplane Cafe: Lunch on the Road

Posted on April 7, 2013 by smallhousepress

In the late and frivolous 1920s, Americans loved flying aces, motion pictures, and automobiles. America was motion crazy. We idolized the daring breed of ex-fighter pilots who flew the U.S. Mail Service by the seat of their pants. On the … Continue reading →

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Fish & Fries, 1988: Kitsch on the Line

Posted on March 17, 2013 by smallhousepress

1988 was a leap year, and the year we took a leap of faith on how funky a project our students would sign up for. Noel was always pushing the edges of the miniatures world, while I was trying to … Continue reading →

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Signs of the Past: Pine Lake Park Lunch

Posted on February 24, 2013 by smallhousepress

1987 saw me running a little faster than time. That year my sister and I threw a 50th wedding anniversary party for our parents, across country in Massachusetts. It wasn’t until the invitations went out that an aunt noted that … Continue reading →

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