Minneapolis

What a great City!!! Thank you Minneapolis for such a great time!!!  We saw some old and new faces at the Uptown Art Fest...the best part was talking with people about art and meeting my new gallery, Gallery 360!!!  Thanks to Merry for snagging a bunch of my new work and pushing it onto all her clients at the gallery!  I think it's a great fit!!!  Here are some photos from the weekend, we started in Decorah Iowa where were hung with the parents, went for a short/hilly ride (no time for single track, bummer, next time) then off to Minneapolis where we took the Greenway EVERYWHERE!!!  Luved it, cars had to stop for us, amazing!  Had great gluten free food and beer, plus got to hang with good peeps (and my new fav buddy, Keller, see ya soon buddy)....thanks to everyone who hung with us and came by to check out my work.  Thanks Minneapolis and Gallery 360!!!
(check out Gallery 360 at www.gallery360mpls.com)

Viking In Decorah

Greenway

Nice Ride Metro Cycles

Butchy & CVO at Victor's yummy Cuban

Gluten Free Pizza & Beer at Pizza Luce (thanks The Cheat)

One On One Bike Shop

Uptown Art Fair

Uptown Art Fair

Dinner on Stella's Rooftop

Dinner at Barbettes with CVO

Bryant Lake Bowl, beers with CVO, Emery, Melissa and some other new friends

Work In Progress and Play Time

I've been working on new pieces for my upcoming shows but I've also been having fun!!  For those of you that know Nebraska weather than you know we have bout two three months top of nice weather all year!!  So when it's nice out we all drop everything and play!!!  I've been getting miles on my bike and enjoying!!!  But now I'm under deadlines, only 29 days til The Uptown Arts Festival in Minneapolis!!!  Here are a few photos of some new jewelry and of me enjoying this amazing weather!!!!

East Lansing Arts Festival

The East Lansing Arts Festival 

The Show was amazing, over 200 artists from all over, great bands on two stages, delicious food, perfect weather and great sales.

I met so many amazing people, so friendly....my new friend Engineer Ron gave me a miniature drill press, Denise gave me great booth tips, Lynne and I talked bout our pets and the craft world...Was great!!!!

The best part of the show (besides meeting new fascinating people) is that I won "Best in Show/Galleries"....Blue ribbon, cash prize and the recognition of my hard work, lack of sleep and gives me more confidence that I'm 'Doing what I do'....Thanks East Lansing!!!!  See ya next year!!!!

Click on this link and it will take to the ELAF homepage where you can see more.....www.elartfest.com.....

I'm getting ready for The Uptown Festival in Minneapolis, the first weekend in August...I'll have my booth number soon and look forward to meeting new people and hanging with old friends.... 

Hand painted Vans!!!

   

 

Ride down (r we There yet?)              

                        

       

East Lansing Arts Festival

CVO's new friend

My Favorite part of the festival, the morning sunshine, calm before the storm

The Big Award "Best In Show/Galleries"!!!

Thank you ELAF!!!  Amazing!!!

Craft Talk

Seattle The Best of The Northwest

Just got back from our trip to Seattle!  Wow what an amazing city!  The show was fantastic, met so many crazy artistic and fun people!  We are coming back in November for the fall show and can't wait!!!

View from the roof of our hotel, the Mediterranean, great hotel everyone was super friendly and amazing!!

Setting up the booth on Friday, looks like CVO is working harder than me, he knows we are going for beers at Ozzies after.....

The big day!!!  We meet so many amazing people, thanks to everyone for your kind words and support!  

For a little fun!!!  At the Pink Door, where Tamara preformed over our tables! Luke took great care of us at the bar, Lumia was a great server and the owner bought us dessert!  I love Seattle!!!

Thanks to Lumia I had one of the best dinners, Rabbit!!!  Yummy!!!!

A little fun before getting back in the car for 24+ hours!  Pike's Market, let's check it out!!!

Morels, already, they have a six month season here!  Did I mention I love Seattle, even more now!!!

Back on the road!!  Thanks Seattle for such an amazing time...from Darrick at Ozzies, to Luke and Pam at the Best of the Northwest and to all the amazing artists I meet and people....can't wait to be back...

Booth Time

My living/dining room has turned into a construction zone!  PVC and plywood all coming together to make my booth!!!  Things went better than I planned, here's a photo of the beginning process!  One table down and 5 more to go!!!!

Now that all the tables are built I have to take photos of my booth set up!  Most festival applications require a booth shot, since I've only done one festival I do not have any good photos (they really suck)!!!  But since it was the middle of winter and I needed a new booth photo I couldn't set things up outside (-10 below, wind and 2 feet of snow).  This is why I set up the tent inside the house....so glad I live in an old house with a super tall celling!!!)  With the help of the flu infected CVO and myself (who was about to be infected, which was a ton of fun!!!) we put up the tent and walls, set up the tables and lights....photo time!!!

Here's the photo that I've been using for my applications!  It's helped me to get into two shows so far!!!  The first is "The Best of the Northwest" which is in Seattle Washington March 26 and 27 and the other is "East Lansing Arts Festival" in East Lansing Michigan on May 21 and 22.  Waiting to hear from a few more but I'm very excited!  Long road trip to Seattle in the next two weeks, will take plenty of photos!  Very exciting!  Now I have to get to work, so much to do and so little time!!!

New Year, New Work, New Goals!!!

After a crazy holiday season, was really insane!!!  I ended up with an evil evil cold that started the day before NYE (thanks) and is still lingering!  But the highlight to this is a new year which means new work and new goals!!!  This weekend I headed to Edwards Colorado with the boyfriend (CVO) for a fun weekend for his best buds big 4-0 roast!  WOW have I forgotten how important it is to relax and chill for a weekend!  I think I'm in love, Colorado was so beautiful, great people, great drinks and great times!  Photo from the side of the road headed on Hwy 6 from Edwards to Eagle for some thrift shopping!!!  Now driving home in a blizzard on 1-80 was not fun....finally turned into my grandmother and sucked air every time I saw break lights or passed a simi, can't make fun of her while I'm freaking her out with my driving anymore, damn!!!  CVO is an amazing driver and keep me calm, warm and safe...thanks luv!

Since it is a new year I have a new focus, to have more fun with my work!  The best way I create is when I do what I do, time to step up and do what I do!  This is a wall hanging I made for a commission Christmas present, made of steel, bronze, brass, silver nickel.  For the new year I am adding a few new elements to my work, fur, leather, more PVC, steel and bronze, along with many many more.  I live in a bike house so there are all sorts of items floating around the house that I'm ganna start to incorporate into my jewelry and wall pieces.  The direction, same as always, post-apocalyptic, edgy, industrial and down right raw.  

Also for this year is the craziness of applying to shows!  I have a few applications in but have to redo my booth!  Looks like I'm headed to the hardware store, bring on the budgie cords, pvc, plywood, bolts and much much more fun!  I'll post the crazy creative process of revamping the booth, will be very creative and may not go as planned but thats the fun of it all!  CVO think I may need help!!!  Happy New Year all and bring it on 2011, let's kick some serious ass this year!!!