Some Thoughts on Art and Holiday Gifts

I've been thinking....as I begin packing my treasures, yet again, for another move.....about the things I have kept as I move through my downsizing saga....my great grandmother's cameo, an oil painting that some kids back from a trip to Europe gave me as a thank you gift, the blue print my dad made of my face when I was 3, a rather mount doomy charcoal someone did for my other grandmother, an odd family crest ring from a long gone uncle, a print my parents gave me years ago titled "Solitary Splendor"....how did they know?....a color blanket my Mom wove,  the Waldorf doll my youngest son and I made to help him cope with his older brother going off to college, the beautiful "Scottish piece" that will most likely be in storage for years, a funky pottery bowl my daugher gave me after a rough patch during her teenage years, the reindeer my oldest son made from some sticks....and suddenly it struck me that all my treasures are art......with stories.

So....just a thought as you do your holiday shopping....the things that stay are not the gadgets and gizmos....it's the hand knit christmas stocking, the hand carved salad bowl, the hand painted abstract with the title that stirs something in your soul, the hand embroidered table runner, the hand made mugs....the things with the hands...they are the treasures....buy art!

Apple Annie Arts and Crafts Show

Alright people....it's time!  The 31st Annual Apple Annie Arts and Crafts Show is next weekend...and I'm going to be there.  It's my first show in forever and I'm taking a lot of new pieces that I'm really quite proud of. 
The show runs Friday, Dec. 2 from 9:00 AM-7:00 PM and Saturday, Dec. 3 from 9:00 AM-2:00 PM.  The Catholic Church of St Ann is located at 4905 Roswell Road, Marietta, Georgia 30062.  My booth is in the Carroll Center...booth 35.
For all of you who have been asking how to buy one of my pieces...this is it!  (no shipping)  Would love to see you there!

Yet Another Mary Box

I spent yesterday packing art for a show I'm doing the first weekend in December..... I got a little sidetracked by some almost too dry clay and made another Mary box...I'll pack tomorrow.

Bobbin Goddesses

A friend asked me to make some bobbin deities...yep, bobbins....like in a sewing machine......she has been working in the wardrope department at Emory getting a million Jane Austin type costumes ready for an any-day-now play and all the bobbins on all the machines had nervous breakdowns....this is never good.  So....here they are, the goddesses Bobbinette and Bobbilina....they'll have bobbins in their hands to hold an incense stick and some tangled thread with bobbins hanging from the bottom....I hope they bring blessings and peace to the wardrobe artists and healing to their sewing tools.

The Mary That Made It

I'm very pleased with this Mary!  Her halo really is this shiny..... you can't tell from this picture but she has a sort of tear under her right eye...you just never know with raku.

ARRGH!

cracked Mary

Mary on fire

I just hate it when something I'm so excited about doesn't make it through the raku fire.  My favorite Mary cracked right across the middle...odd.  Guess I get to keep her!

Glaze Day

Today I glazed and glazed and glazed some more...very tedious....finished!  Tomorrow a zentangle class and then RAKU DAY!
happy dance...happy dance....