I havent even mentioned

With the trip to France, getting back to work and being sick...I totally forgot to mention the BIGGEST news. My Mr Carrot doll was published in Art doll quarterly!!! It was so exciting to see him in print. They did a call for story book charters. I made several attempts to make a Christopher Robin doll with no success. I was reading Shell silverstein book to Olive and found his pen sketches so intriguing. I choose a funny poem about carrots and ran with it.

I made a simple rag doll in the shape of a carrot with the poem on his chest. I think he turned out pretty cute!

Not great pictures. I painted him and added detail but was so excited to get him packed up. I forgot to tack a picture. So to see the final doll, I guess you will need to check out ARQ

Stuido Tour

This past weekend 15 artists celebrated our 10th Studio tour. It was great fun, but the sales were slow. I did well with sterling and bronze bangles and earrings, but my new work...well ...lets just say I received lots of comments. I guess not a lot of folks are looking for a large cast moose ring!!! In my small conservative town, we have lots of hunters. Every convenience store has 10+ gun, hunting or fishing magazines proudly displayed up front. I love the look of taxidermy, but not the thought of hunting the animals. I have been working on casting animals and mounting them to simulate a taxidermy mount. I like this work so I will continue with it. My goal has switched from simply making jewelry to sell to making art. Most of the comments were positive about the "art" but it was always followed with....but its not really practical. I did make a few sterling jackalope and roadrunner rings that were more palatable for the masses!!!!

I finally figured out that I had to BUY more space to up load more pictures! (Im a bit slow wit technology) France was AMAZING. The sights, the food, the shopping...but most of all the friends. The girls (and husbands) were fantastic. I has such a fantastic time at SLK's workshop. It was my first time overseas but it will not be my last! Ill post more later along with some new work

FrANCE AND iCE RESIN mIXED mEDIA TEAM

Well dear friends, it has been far to long since I have posted. I was working daily for almost 2 months in preparation for my trip to France, and the I was away for 2 weeks. I returned home yesterday and am suffering some nasty jet lag. I have so much to share. Im going to rest for the next day and then hit my b1og hard. but here are a few pix to let you know what Ive been up to. WELL I gues no Pix. Blogger will not allow me to post pix. It says Im out of room. Anny suggestions on how to fix this?

oh the places you can go with Resin

flower girl

My baby brother(20  years difference!!} got married yesterday.  It was a beautiful wedding in the mountains of Colorado, my favorite place to be.

                                          Miss Olive was the Flower Girl.

She did a great job.  She did get a bit board and wanted to take some photos of the wedding

I guess she thought her boots were the most exciting thing going on during the vows!!

Ice Resin design team?

Well.. I have submitted my application for the 2012-2013  Ice Resin design team.  I applied last year and I guess we all know how that turned out!! I use to get my feelings hurt when i was turned down for something.  Especially when it pertained to my art.  I now take each event as a learning experience.   If I dont make it, I just was not right for the position.  But it gives me an opportunity to get better at filling out applications and putting myself out there.   Im excited about the possibilities but if not, Im sure the urniverse will present something else...it always does.  Here are the pix I submitted.