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Alchemy Show

Another last-minute invitation! I'm so goosey with these things, they make me shy. Anyway: tomorrow night (Saturday) is the opening reception for the Alchemy show at Dysonna City Art Gallery, and I am excited to be showing some of my work and actually attending the opening. If you are in Los Angeles, won't you come by for a glass of wine and say hi? I'm bringing my mom as my date, and she's awesome. Reception starts at 7:00.

Oopsy Daisy Sale

Good news: I just found out that Oopsy Daisy is having a Founder's Day Sale, with 13% off all of their darling products! Do you recognize the images above? They are from my Happy series, wonderfully reproduced on stretched canvas, and they are beautiful in person. I feel like a proud parent.

Gem

Ack! Talk about totally last minute. In three and a half hours Gallery 825 will be opening its doors to the public for its yearly gem show, and I have two pieces showing; this is one of those nights where collectors literally buy the art off the gallery walls, it's pretty fun. If you happen to be out and about in Los Angeles tonight, stop by for great art, great music, and wine!

Los Angeles Art Association proudly presents gem: the kick-off to LA's Spring Art Season - Saturday, April 21, 2012; 7-9pm, VIP Preview 6-7pm. Gallery 825, 825 N. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069

Hello!

Hello friends!

It has been awhile, and I have missed this space. We are still settling in to our new home, and we absolutely LOVE it. There is so much light and so much space. It is like living in a tree house. It is magic.

And last night we were visited last night by the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny! 

 I will be back soon with news of shows and publications. In the meantime, I would love to hear what you've been up to, what are you working on?

Bloom

The happiest of Fridays to you!

If You Don't Know What to Do, Ask Your Heart for Advice

Happy Valentine's Day!

Anima

I am very excited to be a part of the Anima show at Fibre Arts Design Studio in Palo Alto, CA... opening reception is today from 6:00 to 8:00. I am too busy with the littlest one (and packing) to make it up north, but I will be there in spirit! Perhaps I will drink a glass of champagne at 6:00 as I am stirring Beau's macaroni and cheese...

Teeny Tiny Art Show 9

It's time for teeny tiny art!

Three Graces Gallery's 9th Teeny Tiny Art Show goes up this weekend, and I am happy to be a part of it again... this is my fourth TTAS. I hope one year to make it to Portsmouth, NH, where the town is filled with art: Nahcotta Gallery's Enormous Tiny Art Show will also be in full swing.

My recent bird studies will be for sale, framed up all pretty. You can see them in the online gallery shop now.

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I hope you are all having a lovely February so far. I've just begun packing for our move on the 15th, while also trying to round out a series of collages based around this image. Putting things away in boxes on one side of the house while making a huge mess on the other side has me feeling like nothing's being accomplished at all!

Bird Studies

Do you remember my call for materials exchange last summer? This week I finally got to some of the goodies sent to me from Canadian artist/photographer Rachael Ashe. Rachael does some amazing things with altered books and sells her beautiful photography, you can see her work here. The package she sent was full of some great stuff, and I had a wonderful time getting back into art making while the baby slept.

These birdies will be heading to Three Graces Gallery in NH once I get them framed up.

Thank you, Rachael, for the materials and the inspiration!

Celebrating Beginnings and Celebrating Endings

Hello friends!

Did you have happy and wonderful holidays, I hope?

We had a fantastic time.. and even though the Christmas things have been put away, I still have red and green in my heart. I secretly want to keep the carols playing. The holidays snuck up so quickly this year, and then it was a blur of presents and flying wrapping paper and they were over.

Perhaps some of that has to do with this little person, who is 3 months old now. He is a prince, and he is now laughing and sleeping through the night.. but my gosh, babies are not for the faint of heart. I've been so focused on being a mommy that I've lost touch with some things. A lot of things. And now my "maternity leave" has ended, and trying to get back into work mode has been very jarring. And so far: impossible.

It's time to turn my table back into an art-making area.. I have artwork to make for one of two shows that I'm in next month. Yikes.

And it's also time to start packing, because we are moving! 

Our new house is darling, and has so much more room, and we are very excited. But I am also very sad at the thought of moving.. I've lived in this house for nine years now; it's the longest I've lived in one place my entire life. So I am trying to be as present as possible this last month we are here. I'm going to really miss the neighborhood and our friends. We've been taking lots of walks and taking things in as much as we can.

And it's funny, I've been thinking about that old adage: Be careful what you wish for. Above my computer right now is a dream board that I made a year ago with the word expansion in the center of it, and surrounding that are images of babies, and big beautiful homes, and my artwork. Expansion was the word I chose for myself last year. And that's what I got, that's what we got as a family.

But sometimes expansion isn't completely comfortable, is it? Here I am celebrating new things starting and old things ending. I want to laugh and cry. 

I haven't thought of a word yet for 2012, have you thought of a word for this year?

*Be very careful!!* :)