Our stuff at Artomatic.

Wow, there is a wonderful collection of artists at this show! I spent last night , along with hundreds of others, finishing my booth display. It was a pleasant mad house. A madhouse since the electric still was not installed, but wonderful since all the fellow artists were so kind and helpful.

This is just a few of the pieces I have up on the 8th floor corner space. I have light and a great view to the National Cathedral in the far right. The show is in a new unfinished office tower at M and 1st street NE right near Gaudallet College and a block off the metro stop.

For this show we only brought our bigger pieces, since this is a show, not a sale. We can sell our pieces, but we have to leave them up until June 16. http://www.artomatic.org/

Arttomatic in DC Show

Whoa we got in! We will be participating in the Artomatic show next month. We'll be joining over 600 artists in a great temporary gallery set up in an unfinished office building just north of Capitol hill. It's a great venue and we got a terrific location with lots of windows!I am so psyched!

More details later as we get geared up but here's the site and the link http://www.artomatic.org/ It ought to be grand!

April in DC

Took the day off to go see the cherry trees- It's just like in the pictures!

Shameless Bragging

Here it is , the landscape I did for my Mom years ago to give her a better view out her kitchen window.

Mom lives by the shore, but her kitchen window looked straight into the side of the neighbor's garage. So I gave her a view of the a flower box in the foreground and the shoreline in the distance. This is a composed design; I used parts of a commercially produced pattern for the bird and some of the flowers but I drew up the pansies, the landscape and the tree bits. I'm rather proud of the entire effect. The design holds up even after all these years.

I can see foreshadowings of my later works in there. I used irridized glass for the water and the magnolias so the window would look lively in room light at night.

Savage Snowdrop Art and Craft Fair

So I was so annoyed about the poor attendance at some of our shows that I swore I could do a better job myself. Be careful what you say out loud- the Imp of the Perverse is always listening.

By a roundabout way too complex to mention, I wound up running a craft show next February. Now I'm not the most organized of folks, and I have never done anything like this before, but I have every confidence this will be a great show. And why am I so confident? Because I delegated!

I have found 2 dozen gifted crafters who have all volunteered to help out, to manage press releases, to make posters, to notify the local media and to send me pictures of what they have.

We have a blog, http://savagesnowdrop.blogspot.com/ dozens of goodies for a raffle/door prize, a beautiful venue in Savage MD, posters and flyers. I could not be happier.

The show is in Savage MD on Saturday, February 16 at 9035 Baltimore street. We have jewelers, knitters, glass crafters and paper makers , as well as handmade journals and a fancy tea.

It should be great!

First Check from new Gallery

We got our first check from VIX Gallery today . VIX sold out of our smaller hearts and also sold a small panel. What a nice way to begin the new year. So of course, it's back to hearts for me since Valentine's is rapidly approaching.
All this, and a re design of the website going on. Wow, I thought I'd get a brief break after the holidays!
I convinced Di to handle the redesign of the website, and she agreed. So now I get late night calls asking me to look at the newest tweak. So far, it looks great: a nice background, a gallery page, a salesroom, details about us and a page for other really nifty sites we've each found over the years.

Tom Collins and Orange Blossoms

Ah the sweet nectar of the gods! Otherwise known as gin. In this festive season, I make up a pitchers of Orange Blossoms ( gin and orange juice) and my sister makes Tm Collins( gin and lemon and orange juices and who knows what else- her version is a secret) and we merrily imbibe as we decorate every thing that is not moving, Including slow moving dogs and napping cats.

2 days after Christmas, with the house festooned with ribbons and stashes of left over candies, it's back to the daily grind, but with grins on our faces and loot in our drawers. I love the festive season!

In glass news, we sold another piece on Christmas Day of all things! Looks like someone got cash for the holidays and decided to spend it with us. Wise choice!

So it's back to cutting and making things for the new shows. We hope to be accepted by QuiltOdyssey and some other larger shows this year. Diana is busy updating our real website and we have a number of new pieces on the design board. So off to t anew year we go!

We Have a New Gallery That Represents Us

VIX gallery in West Philadelphia is our newest gallery! We met Emily, one of the new owners of the space on Baltimore Street and 50th to show off our new works and she took them!
Personally, I was delighted she really like the MacIntosh Rose panel, since that is the one, regular readers will remember, that I designed so I had an excuse not to work on the Baltimore Album panels.
Who says procrastination doesn't pay off!
Seriously, she has wonderful stuff, an array of fabric skits, knit hats, wonderful soaps, birdhouses, ties, pottery and fantastic jewelry.
She also carries other glass artists as well as yours truly.

Cool new galleries I 've found

So now we are looking for other places to sell our glass. We found this wonderful new gallery in West Philadelphia called Vixemporium housed in an old millinery shop. It has all sorts of wonderful crafts . Emily, one of the owners, kindly offered to show some of our things there. So I'm off to Philly tomorrow with an assortment of hearts , panels and other bits. Check them out at
http://vixemporium.wordpress.com/

Butterfly or Martini Glass

Okay, so when Di showed me her new piece, I had one of those weird visual experiences you get with mirages. She was happily explaining her inspiration and the quilt patterns she adapted to make this fellow look like he was flying and I'm thinking"Hun? Martini glasses don't fly. And they're not quilty either!" Okay, sometimes I'm a bit off, but I do claim that I first saw this with the lights a bit low, so the wings and the background were less prominent than the body and the blue triangles, ...which looks like a swell drink to me.

It's a lovely butterfly. And the 2 triangles give the design a sophistication it would not have if the background were one color. I'm still hanging my head in embarrassment, though. Oh well, guess that means I have to get back to the board and design the last of the Baltimore Album series to redeem my reputation.