First let me start off with this sign of spring. Okay, I’ll admit that it just happens to be growing by the dryer vent but I’ll take whatever I can get right now.
While finishing my morning coffee I saw this guy perch on the fence outside my kitchen window and hunt Chickadees in the neighbor’s bushes. No he didn’t get any. Some crazy lady drinking her morning coffee had to go scare him away.
After all that excitement I got to introduce the Bandit dog to his new vet. Bandit is one very hyper little Jack Russell Terrier who thinks it is his job to bark at every person and dog that comes into his sight. There were about four dogs in the waiting area at once and only mine was going nuts. Next time I’ll keep the bark collar on him at the vet. But we both survived and he was back to his normal self about two minutes after we got home.
Then I headed over to the Northville Art House to pick up my pieces. A few minutes into my arrival there someone says ‘Hey, the Day of the Dead lady is here!’ This piece keeps getting attention. I could have sold it three times now. So I had a great conversation with a nice lady named Jane about Catholic artifacts and relics, packed up my stuff and headed out. I then called Victor and told him maybe I needed to revisit some skeletons. But before leaving the parking lot I snapped this from the cemetery next door.
From there I headed over to my folks house to set up and photograph the quilts from the Running with Scissors Weird Michigan Challenge. Those photos will be coming soon but here’s make-shift studio I set up, and tore back down again a few hours later.
It’s still my parents house and I’m not allowed to leave a mess, I don’t need a lecture from Mom. Not to mention that is her new stain glass workbench in the background that she hasn’t even used yet. It came in handy.
So over a gig’s worth of photos later, I finished up and headed home. Victor is making dinner and just handed me a beer. Really, not a bad day. Now I have some photos to crop and RAW photo data to manipulate, and now Victor has some songs to write for Weird Michigan.
So here it is at long last. I based this on the story of the Paw Paw Fire Breather. I think it came out okay. I carved the stamp for the face and felted the fire out of alpca fiber I got from Back to Back Fiber Products last year at the Sewing Expo. I did lots of letter stamping, image transferring, pasting, burning, stitching and various forms of coloring.
My mother handed me Saturday’s paper today and there it was, Pipe Dreams smack dab in the middle of the page. I had figured out that there was something in the Detroit News yesterday through some Google Alerts that Victor set up for me, but I had no idea the photo was that big. I had only seen the online Welcome Mat blurb and I was pretty darn tickled about that. But seeing the printed version shocked me a bit. I keep staring at it going whaaat?
Last night we attended the art opening of Art in Stitches at the Northville Art House. It was pretty darn cool. I couldn’t believe my work was even there with so many amazing fiber artists. Several of them I am lucky enough to know and they have taught me so much in the few years I’ve been doing this stuff. I would not have been in this show if it wasn’t for them. Okay, I’ll stop now.
So here’s some pics of the show:
The gallery itself is really nice and did a great job displaying everything.
This one seems to be getting a lot of attention lately. So I thought I should get a photo with it.
It’s worth the trip to Northville to check out the show. But now I’m going to go open a window and enjoy some of this 46 degree weather.
Good bye January and don’t let the door hit you on the way out! What a month. I feel like I need to sleep a month to recover from the month. It’s rather amazing that I got one project done at all. But I did, just in time for the fiber art show at the Northville Art House. The opening is this Friday and should be cool. As long as the snow storms stay away and my niece shows up for babysitting we should have a good time.
Some of the last minute prep for the show involved me taking over several rooms of the house, after the boys went to bed. Lots of gluing, various cans and books for weighting things down until the glues dry. Just to give you an idea…
So here’s the piece I finished for the show. It’s called Imperfections because the doily has ripped holes, the stamps are somewhat random, the beads aren’t perfect and the doily itself isn’t even perfectly round.
I decided on a whim to put the circus chair in the Northville show. So I had to actually come up with a name for it first. Then I thought he needed some sort of signage. So I used an already embossed piece of metal, some acrylic paint and some stamps. Later some markers came into play.
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