Last Saturday was the Winter Arts Festival in our town. I called in on a whim four days prior and found there was one space left, just for me. 🙂 I signed up, applied for a tax number, and by Saturday I had everything ready. Setting everything up! After helping me set up, David took […]
Yesterday we attending the schoolkids’ annual Tommyknockers celebration. The kids decorate the town tree with handmade ornaments, then walk to the opera house and listen to a storyteller. On the way out the “Clauses” hand out goody bags. Cash got one, too, and was beaming from ear to ear until he opened it (he thought […]
Our family has had a rough couple of weeks, but we are coming through like gold. 🙂 Here are a few little things I’ve made along the way. Making things has a very nice way of brightening you up when you don’t feel very sparkly or shiny. This is a necklace I made for our […]
Here is another oil painting on beetle kill pine–the third in my series of Western American Plains animals. I made each of the three paintings with a primary color hue for the background, and for this amber yellow ground, I wanted to contrast it with a blue roan (opposite color scheme of the Pronghorn). After […]
Here’s that new piece of art I mentioned the other day. Pronghorn are not common up here in the Rockies (at least, I’ve never seen them here), but whenever we take a road trip to Santa Fe, we always spot a herd or two in the desert. They are striking with their tan, white, and […]
