Here’s to playing with fabric scraps and pretending I can quilt!
Fabric scraps
VFW Craft Fair
Last weekend I was in a spur-of-the moment (like they called around 7pm the night before) craft fair. I met some nice people, didn’t sell much, and am super grateful to those friends who stopped by to hang out 🙂
2012 Dziesmu Svetki Milvokos
I guess I made enough stuff to fill a table 🙂 I almost even look a little professional, if I do say so myself.
I was at Milwaukee’s Latvian Song & Dance Festival from July 4 – 8. This year I was selling sandblasted glassware, jewelry, decorative switchplates, and lino printed cards. My mom had the table next to me, which was fun 🙂 Now slowly moving onto (what feels like a monumental task) photographing jewelry and other items to post up for sale on Etsy.
Organized!
See? I can be an organized printmaker, if need be!
Proof of concept…. Wood + metal + Latvian designs
Here are two examples of the new idea made into actual physical real life objects….
Three newest pendants
Today’s efforts after work yielded these! #27, #28, & #29 in a series of fifty. I am 58% finished with my bezel setting challenge! Yea!
Another proof
Here’s another similar card with Latvian roots that’s turning into some new cards:
New prints!
Here’s a proof of a new Latvian card I’m working on — I’ve cleaned it up a bit since this picture was taken and have started printing cards for Dziesmu Svetki like this:
Multiple perspectives
I really enjoy seeing multiple perspective of things. One way this manifests is that i just LOVE to look at the end result of art projects where either the whole class/room/group is given a description of the assignment and we see how all the end results are different OR things like what Corning Glass did here where they took (what appear to be) children’s drawings, made them out of glass, and posted both the idea + end result.
Here are two examples from the Corning Glass Museum site……
On paper:
In glass:
A new pattern
Here are a couple new pendants that I’ve been excited about:
