work...

it is such a blessing to have work...work in which i am required to use my creativity even! i love it.

i am full throttle into the design work for Kate Chappell's cookbook and i am so excited about it. the theme is all worked out in my head and now i am just waiting on more artwork and recipes and stories to piece together for this amazing work of art. what a gift to pass down to her children. stories, artwork, recipes and the history of their family from the kitchen's perspective. i LOVE it. it is inspiring me to want to do the same some day.

i also am doing a sculptural commissioned piece...a mirror with kind of primitive relief work in wood pieced on and painted. i am on the hunt for the last piece of wood i need. it's odd that it is so hard to find...a 1/2" x 8" x24' piece of basswood. but again, i'm so thrilled to be doing the work.

some advertisement work is also on my plate...a new local doll furniture company has hired me to do some advertising design work...business cards, promo flyers, a craft show poster and a stamp design. it's been whimsical and fun.

also i have several prints that i am mounting for customers...and i just ordered a shipment of new jewelry making supplies and i have a head full of designs that i cannot wait to birth.

work. it is good. bring it on.

weekly art auction...

so...my husband and i did a real budget last night. it's a task i have belabored over for months...and it is finally done now...

in creating this budget and looking at numbers, outgoing $$ vrs incoming $$ i have realized that i am a bit of an idealist on the art front. i have invested a lot of money in equipment and supplies and have a surplus of work to boot. i did so many solo shows the year i was pregnant with baby D...that, well, i have work accumulated. and i don't have a studio to house it in any longer...i have decided it must find good homes.

thus...i am hosting a weekly auction from my facebook page. it will begin every monday and end on wednesday...until i have cleared some space. also it will be a great excuse to use some of the materials i haven't touched yet. i am sure folks will get great deals on my work...so stay tuned. i will post the listing link here every week as well as on my facebook art page.

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Gearing Up for PICNIC

i've decided that to make the whole PICNIC experience easier for me, more cost effective for buyers and to make the toting of purchases easier, i am going to bring my large prints in sleeves, unframed and unmatted.

framing can be so expensive, so time consuming for me and i actually consider it quite personal. i love framing the art i purchase and create for myself and do it according to my world and the feeling of my space. i am hoping my customers will feel the same way and have forethought and vision when viewing my naked work!

it just makes so much more sense to do it this way...i can bring way more prints to the festival, thus offer a wider selection and the work will be easy to carry for those shoppers on foot, too.

decision final. i am framing some little pieces...and a few medium sized ones...and sleeving all the rest.