Sue Schlabach – Artist, photographer and upcycler living in Vermont. Viewer of the world through eyes and lens.

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Underpainting colors. I love these colors so much

Underpainting colors. I love these colors so much that I think I need to start using them in the finished paintings instead of just behind the scenes.
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#vividlife #vtartist #thelittlebrickvtstudio

I love Megan Gallagher’s @modernlily.kc art, and

I love Megan Gallagher’s @modernlily.kc art, and she nailed it on the head here, didn’t she? Let’s be dope. Let’s not be dopes. Protect each other. Smile with your eyes. Wear a mask.

Knee high by fourth of July. It’s on track. (Fir

Knee high by fourth of July. It’s on track. (First time ever for a Vermont corn patch in 27 years of trying.) We planted this down the road at my Dad’s garden. Hopefully we’ll get to eat some with Lowry before the college road trip to Warren Wilson College in early August. But that’s the least of this summer’s uncertainties. #homegrownsweetcorn #vermontgarden #eastbarnardvt

My “All-New” encyclopedia is actually 29 years

My “All-New” encyclopedia is actually 29 years old. But it, and Patrick Lima’s Kitchen Garden, are still my go-to books when planting. Today I’m finally getting in my asparagus crowns after waiting out a heat wave and anticipating rain. This is the third asparagus bed I’ve planted in my life. May it be the last. #thelittlebrickvt #hardwork #diggingtrenches #preparationequalssuccess #rodale #patricklima #asparagusbedinthemaking

Thanks to all who helped our lass have a memorable

Thanks to all who helped our lass have a memorable graduation over the weekend. These 2020 graduates have character in spades. Here are a few scenes from Saturday: chilling under our neighbor’s shade trees with friends and family post-ceremony in the hot afternoon, the lass pondering her speech before the ceremony, getting her diploma after we heard speeches from @headmastermike and she herself. @thesharonacademy

There is a phoebe nest in the barn entry. She flew

There is a phoebe nest in the barn entry. She flew in and out to feed her chirping babies while I set up a little workspace in the barn to thread a needle, take a few deep breaths and make something from some items that were meaningful to me and things that were just laying around waiting to be used. Paper, scissors, thread and some time. We have listening and learning to do if we are to shift the balance to being a safe and equitable world for people of color. The folks at the @themakerie offered a great free workshop today to help artists think, listen and create meaning in a time when we can get consumed by doubt, worry and our own anxiety. #aplayfulpause came at the right time for me. Phoebes are quiet and sleeping now. Thanks @themakerie @heidi.parkes, @katewilkes and @athandstudio
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#aplayfulpause #themakerie #needleandthread #paperarts #makingstuff #afewofmyfavoritethings #makingart #gratitude #blacklivesmatter #imlistening #vtartist #fabricofourlives

A little homage to my tiny town. #eastbarnardvt #

A little homage to my tiny town.
#eastbarnardvt #enpleinair

It’s an odd year to be a high school senior, but

It’s an odd year to be a high school senior, but @cowponiesandchevys is taking it in stride. This extraordinary quilt was designed and hand made by my sister in law Janet North. Lowry received it on Sunday and it will be entered in the Billings Farm Quilt Show. Isn’t it gorgeous? Thank you Janet! A very customized graduation is on Saturday.

We wore coats last night when we painted up on Wal

We wore coats last night when we painted up on Walker Hill above East Barnard. The coats were not for fighting chill, but to fight off mosquitos and noseeums. #butitwasworthit

It’s the birthday of Breonna Taylor. She isn’t

It’s the birthday of Breonna Taylor. She isn’t here to turn 27, and the police who killed her haven’t been charged. Thanks @babesvt and @hlrecords802 for bringing 200 of us together this week to light candles, place flowers and art and to denounce acts of violence and murder against black people. Thanks, Babe’s, for making a place for conversations between black and white Vermonters to continue. #werelistening #saytheirnames #babesbar #blacklivesmatter #vermont #birthdayforbreonna

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Love/hate relationship is at its peak. . . . #dand

Love/hate relationship is at its peak.
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#dandelions #soyellow #friendorfoe

Yesterday on the hilltop about Bud's farmhouse loo

Yesterday on the hilltop about Bud's farmhouse looking down on our little village. @jjoverstreet and I set up our easels for the first plein air painting of the season. We're plotting our next painting date already. We're rusty and need to get back into practise. #lifelonglearning

Counting the years. 38? 42? Something like that.

Counting the years. 38? 42? Something like that.

First four leaf clover of the season. A little tat

First four leaf clover of the season. A little tattered, just like our collective weary souls.

All grown up. I still have things to teach you. Bu

All grown up. I still have things to teach you. But you are teaching me so many things too. Brimming with love.

Miss you Mom. Thanks for teaching me what it takes

Miss you Mom. Thanks for teaching me what it takes to be a Mom, myself.

Snowy out and glowy in. This gold blanket was in R

Snowy out and glowy in. This gold blanket was in Ryan's family. My ratty, but well-loved, studio sofa is much improved by it.
#chickeninoven #gratefulforsomuch

2020, we'd be fine if you could stop dishing up su

2020, we'd be fine if you could stop dishing up surprises, please.

We usually mark May 9 as the day we will see the first leaves on the trees—it’s Ryan’s birthday. In 27 years in Vermont we can't recall a snowy birthday ever.

And tomorrow. Snow.

And tomorrow. Snow.

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