Sunny days
I have been having quite the day days recently!
It's back to the usual gray today, but we had nearly a full week of real sunshine here in Extremely Blue State! Six days of sun! We usually get half that for the full month of February.
I have to run off to a meeting, but here are a few highlights of what we've been up to around the castle:
I've set up two book signings for Mixed-Media Dollhouses! Two! The first one will be at Everett Artist's Supply & Framing. Tally and I will be signing books and being all expert about our cigar-box house assemblages. I'm so excited that I've been able to set these signings up, I'm practically jumping out of my skin! And I'm also working on adding something to the Artfest goodie bag -- just have to get it into Teesha's hands.
The Boy's fifth birthday -- good Lord, five years already! He's big enough for his first skateboard. The Husband had so much fun teaching him to use it, he wanted to get his own.
(A friend of The Husband's reality-checked him and reminded him that skateboards and being over 40 years old only work out well for the producers of "America's Funniest Home Videos.")
Smiles all around me, I tell ya!
I have to run off to a meeting, but here are a few highlights of what we've been up to around the castle:
The Boy's fifth birthday -- good Lord, five years already! He's big enough for his first skateboard. The Husband had so much fun teaching him to use it, he wanted to get his own.
(A friend of The Husband's reality-checked him and reminded him that skateboards and being over 40 years old only work out well for the producers of "America's Funniest Home Videos.")
Smiles all around me, I tell ya!
My first big sale!
... lots of conversations about the pieces... lots of cards handed out.
I did all of those things, and had a really good time exhibiting at The Resident Cheesemonger. Just doing that was pretty enjoyable for someone who occasionally had a problem "visiting" in class [waves hand in the air wildly].
In particular, I remember a couple named Donna and Mike who were each wearing some very cool handmade necklaces. There was also a girl, who came in with her parents and her Peruvian grandmother, who actually knew the Grimm's Fairy Tale "The Swan Princes", which inspired one of my paintings.
But come on... the whole point of participating in an exhibition, no matter how small or eclectic, is to sell something. Send a piece of art home with someone who wants to keep seeing that thing you made.
So I was a little disappointed when no one bought anything. I figured someone would at least pick up a notebook -- they were only $25. No. I was going to have to take my "Nymph and Child" assemblage home in a box like a newborn kitten.
But as I was packing up, Strom Peterson (the owner of The Resident Cheesemonger) decided his mom would love having the assemblage in her art collection.
Huh.
Really? The most expensive piece, not one of the others?
Art Walk finale
At the last minute, after many chats held and cards handed out, after lots of smiling and smiling and smiling... I made my first big art sale at the Edmonds Art Walk!
More tomorrow.