Yvonne Wakefield
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AT AGE EIGHTEEN, Yvonne set out to build a home from trees on eighty acres she bought on an Oregon mountainside. In 1975, log by log she creates a cab
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in and heals from an orphaned past, finding a new family in the forest, and with people in a valley named John Day.Babe in the Woods: Self Portrait is the second in a three-book series. It chronicles a span in Yvonne's four decades long relationship with her log cabin and the people she meets in the valley. The book continues Yvonne's story of learning to live in the wilderness within and outside of herself. It is also a story of rogue bears, building a bear-proof log studio, a young artist's development, and the trials and triumph of finding oneself, alone in the back woods.Pacific Northwest author and artist Yvonne Wakefield, also known as Yvonne Pepin-Wakefield, is also the author of Suitcase Filled with Nails: Lessons Learned from Teaching Art in Kuwait. Visit her website at yvonnepepinwakefield.com and on Facebook at, Babe in the Woods: Building a Life One Log at a Time, and Yvonne's Studio.
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