Holy Moly- Bliss Happens

On a strange whim of extreme confidence or delusion, I visited the premiere craft gallery in Portland: The Real Mother Goose. I went in to ask who the buyer  was and how I proceed to make an appointment to show my hats. They gave me an appointment a week later (even though I was dressed like a total schlepp. A week later, slightly more cleaned up and maybe even some mascara on my lashes, the loved my hats. And they took them all 12.

Here some of them are in the window at Tenth and Yamhill. My husband is peeking out the window proud as a peacock that my hats  are in such a venue. 

I was also invited after two years of rejection to participate in Portland Open Studios. October 2013 so there is plenty of time to think and plan for that.

My felt abstractions continue to be shown at Art on Broadway and this month I am moving out of my comfort zone and working much larger. A large multilayer blue piece is in progress. A felt milking stool. and a purple beaded ombre weaving. Will posts pics as things progress.

Next week I am not leaving the premises until saturday. I have tons of art ideas, and my yard beckons like the scented sanctuary that it is.

Evergreen clematis scents the night air and is pure heaven. Plus  for the first time in 6 years I can openthe windows and not be suffocated by my former neighbors laundry products. Plus if she reads that your poison pen letter only made me laugh. Your toxicity is palpable.

Ciao.

Rock of ages

Yes it's been ages, partly because I have been swamped with hat making for a february show that feature me and a jewelry maker. The show was called feminine finery and it is exciting to be the featured artist. It happened  once before- a year ago  - and it's  a Sondheim feeling that is reflected well by the song Putting it together.  I also did a felting demo.

One of my pieces has been sent off to St Louis, ironic isn't it? But that's where it sits for a month. A silk and wool Haggadah for an exhibit Freedom Imagined Freedom Lived.

In April I stop being the "hat-lady" and start hanging my assemblages at Art on Broadway. Also going into a larger format. Spring is popping allover and so summer hats and flowers and the color blue are on my mind a lot. 

And my heavens I forgot to write that pupu lips won honorable mention in Miami. Fabulouso?  They sent a certificate and I laminated it and put it in a memory box.

And is the one following who prefers to remain anonymous really my sister?  who stalks me in a very reserved and ladylike fashion. If it is: I say Teshuvah, look it up, it will improve your life.

Win some, lose some - it's fine

Well although I did not get admitted to the Atlantic coast Images show---- my sister in law lives on the beach--- I am still committed to only juried shows and am getting very good at letting rejections run off my back.  Maybe in compensation, I won honorable mention in a show in Miami Beach....okay now I can REALLY say that I have shown nationally. And it was one of my very favorite pieces PupuLips so i a glad someone is beginning to "get" my fiber pieces.

Hat making, felted assemblages, encaustic and now a slew of cat toys just like Abi loves for a holiday bazaar - $5 each. who wouldn't pay that for a cat holiday gift?

And I am treating myself to my third custom made hat form, this one an asymmetrical crown form like my favorite little kepi top at Pinkham Millinery.  Here is the cloche I made from the hat form I ordered from Great Britain.

if i don't post before chanukah, have fun, be safe and breathe. Chag Sameach.

Baby's in Black but it's okay.

Well I took the non techno way out and remade the hat and posted the videos. Part one which shows how to cover and line a pillbox once the frame is made  can be found HERE

And then part two should also be uploaded showing how to swirl a grosgrain ribbon for insertion into a hat almost finished.  When I get the URL for that I will post it. No one has a monopoly on idiocy. :-)

It's not all over now Baby Blue.

Remember my wonderful Leopard skin pillbox hat? well I remade it  and made a video of the process but I have not learned how to take the 28 minute video and turn it into 3 yen minute videos. Ordinarily I would go to the web and see how to cut a longer video into several smaller ones... however the geeks who post about this can't speak ordinary English and assume you have some advanced knowledge about the process. well damn it I don't. So I need someone to talk to me as a ten year old kid whose native language is Pratesh ( I made that up) and learned English from a Spanish teacher. Add to this the fact that I hate windows and rarely update it so everything on my laptop is wildly out of date. So the end result is I dont have this delicious video and if I ever learn how to make it smaller 9 or did that to begin with- growl) I will post it. Are my claws showing?

I finally got the camera aimed right and if you don't mind my occasional mis-speaks which I sort of correct as I go along, you can see me in action. Okay Mr. Zimmerman, let the camera roll on down the hill and smash against a large boulder. more growls. :-)