TINY PACKAGES TO GIVE

Tiny packages to give

A photo posted by Laurie Poast (@lauriepoast) on Oct 10, 2014 at 2:20am PDT

Cottages

A photo posted by Laurie Poast (@lauriepoast) on Oct 10, 2014 at 2:42am PDT

Tiny packages to give (and to keep!) for the holiday season at poast.no

SWEET SCANDINAVIAN GIFTS BY POAST

Sweet Scandinavian gifts at poast.no

A photo posted by Laurie Poast (@lauriepoast) on Oct 10, 2014 at 7:41am PDT

Can't wait for Christmas :-)

A photo posted by Laurie Poast (@lauriepoast) on Oct 10, 2014 at 8:01am PDT

A Scandinavian Christmas

A photo posted by Laurie Poast (@lauriepoast) on Oct 10, 2014 at 4:59am PDT

Find Christmas tree ornaments, objets d'art, and wall hangings by POAST at poast.no.

NEW STUDIO OF POAST A&D

Welcome to the new studio of POAST :-)

A photo posted by Laurie Poast (@lauriepoast) on Oct 10, 2014 at 2:53pm PDT

CHRISTMAS IN SCANDINAVIA

Luxurious white porcelain in tiny architectural forms, hung on sterling silver pins and tied with loops and bows of crisp white paper twine. Find them at poast.no.

O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!

How lovely are your branches?

In beauty green will always grow

Through summer sun and winter snow

O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!

How lovely are your branches!

O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!

You are the tree most loved!

How often you give us delight

In brightly shining Christmas light!

O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!

You are the tree most loved!

O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!

Your beauty green will teach me

That hope and love will ever be

The way to joy and peace for me.

O, Christmas tree! O, Christmas tree!

Your beauty green will teach me.

(An English version of the old German Christmas carol, "O Tannenbaum!")

AMERICA TO HOLLAND TO NORWAY: MY CHANGING AESTHETIC

From one land to another

to another

Farewell to family

over the clouds

ancient cobblestones

vast flatlands

water and wind harnessed

then to the North

seasick along the Nordic coast

water and wind wild

upon another shoreline

safe on my ancestors' mountains

From America to Holland to Norway, 2009 to 2014. Today Norway is my home, and Yves' home, and Leikny's home. Today I work as an artist, breathing in all that surrounds me here, and from it, creating. My aesthetic has changed with as much hardship, pain of loss, curiosity, and remarkable joy as has my life in these years. This blog discusses my journey.