wordless wednesday

Pride
(loving my art)



Gluttony
(eating everything in sight)



Envy
(wanting the perfect body)



lust
(hunting for the hidden pickle)



Wrath
(note purple toe)

Happy Winter Solstice

Kissing the long nights goodbye

Workshop mode

Living gifts

these were a great success at the holiday boutique

I made them from my personal collection of succulents

I am currently making all sorts of things that have had to wait.

The holidays are also a great time for me to play with new ideas

I am thinking of looking at fabric next....

Dizzy

I started writing a really long post about the last few days...but it seemed too word laden...so instead I will post a small album of images instead...I am a visual story teller anyways....
I am dizzy from trying to process all that has happened in the last couple of days.

front window as viewable from the street.

When I got my first glimpse I fought back tears of extreme joy and thanks

a lull in the crowd

two people looking at two of my three images at the show

Impressive as they needed to wait to get this view.

the next morning I scrubbed what was left of my mascara off my cheeks

and spent the morning at a holiday boutique at my husbands work.

I sold these little terrariums, necklaces and paper goods

The sea on the way home to two more art openings!

It was so striking, I stopped and took a deep breathe of the sea air and watched the gulls play in the wind

"One Night Stand"

an impromptu one night show of the printmaking from the Inkspots of Ventura

at Project 643 space

Some of the artwork for sale at the VITA benefit

Christmas trees being delivered to Home Depot....

I had never seen this happen before, I always see them all lined up in lots but never right off the train container and to the shop. I was struck by it.

I did it....

I finished NaBloPoMo

I might not have been very interesting but I posted every day for a month!

I am still at work and will be for quite some time tonight.

My brother's machine shop has their ISO audit tomorrow and the final days of making sure all our T's are crossed and I's dotted are in play right now.

The shop is being swept and looks all pretty...

It is a spring cleaning of sorts

In the meantime, we are burning the midnight oil

I knew I would be too tired to post later tonight, that and my brain will be too fuzzy to think.

I will post again, just not tonight.

Adventure Food

Cowboy breakfast



On our little adventure last week, we only stopped a few times coming up the coast so I could pee....we packed some food, but we never seem to pack the right things so when the time to eat comes around we never want to eat what we have so carefully packed.

argh...maybe someday we will crack that code

On the way back out, we left before the sun came up and by the time we were an hour or so out we got hungry...seeing as we only had candy bars and carbonated water and some sadly post refrigerated leftover food ( you know the stuff that has been left in the cooler, then placed in a fridge and now has a funny damp smell) to choose from we stopped for breakfast. We were in cattle land...so we had a choice of Denny's or a "cowboy cafe" we choose the cowboy place, as it was a small diner and we figured it would have more locals and or good cookin'

Our cowboy breakfasts arrived and it was the perfect meal to help get past a hangover.
Sadly, neither of us was hung over so it was simply a greasy spoon.

Giddy up little Tagamet®

Big Girl

The piece that made the show card:
"The warm wind filled the air with dry earth"

I dropped off three new pieces of work to a big time gallery. I awoke early, anxious and excited....but mostly anxious.

I had a short but real questioning with myself about the quality and value of my work...it was a short speech.

I drove into Santa Barbara and delivered my work to a white walled gallery, and chatted with the super nice  lady who changed the spelling of my name and took my work into the back, behind the scenes. I could hear her walk away and feel a bubbling sense of pride with every one of her steps.

I had hoped to get some work into this gallery, I had said a little word....and here I am 1 year later.

WOW

I am still in shock, but have many distractions before Thursday so I think that floating feeling will last for a little while longer.

To ground myself even further, I spent the afternoon making terriaums for the two holiday boutiqes I have coming up this week. Living gifts...life in a cubicle.