Saturday: New Artist Discovered! New Beads Gift! Farmer's Market! New Figs! Fiber Photo Albums Started! Sketchbook Intimidation!

What a full day Saturday was! I went downtown to Rose Ann at her Main Street Salon, who has been doing my hair for the past 17 years to have my hair done! We always ALWAYS have a ton of laughs together. I LOVE Rose Ann! When I got done and went outside I heard MUSIC! So I followed it to the Town Square down the street. There were all sorts of stands set up selling art of all kinds! A charcoal portraitist actively drawing; David Peterson was outside painting in watercolors (my workshop teacher of a few months back you might recall); women selling purses, clothing, hand made jewelry. And a young man selling art photos! His name is Ky Dally and he has a website here. Go there and see his work You WILL NOT be disappointed. He is fantastic. He is 23 yrs young and has been doing photography he tells me for 17 months! He is very personable and generous with his information. I really enjoyed chatting with him and am very happy with the three post cards and one matted photo I purchased from him.

Please go to his link to see these and many other wonderful photos on a slide show. They are brilliant!

Ky, it was a real pleasure to meet you! This packet of 100 beads came in today's mail from Julie in Florida! She made them from me by wrapping paper strips around a toothpick and then shining them up with nail enamel. I cannot imagine the patience needed to make these small beads. And I know they will beautify my fiber work for some time to come. THANK YOU JULIE!!!!!

I was also right there at the farmers market so I picked up the most juicy oranges, peaches and plums and brought them home to eat...

adding this fruitful bounty to my freshly picked figs. I took two quart sized bags of these to my next door and across the street neighbors!

Once home I started a new project. My soon to be six year old grand children will be celebrating later this month. I am making each a fabric photo album. These are some of the first steps:

Torn muslin pages; photos transferred to TAP (transfer artist paper);

machine sewing the photos to muslin backed with batting. Stay tuned for the next steps that will make them even more decorated.

Now, this sketchbook from THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT has been sitting naked on my desk for the past few days. Can you believe I have been too intimidated by it to begin? Yes, it is true.

It has a theme: "Down Your Street". Is that MY street or YOUR street? Does that mean I have to draw streets? Or can I tackle this in a wider birth of imagination and suggest that absolutely ANYTHING can be Down Your/My Street?

I guess we will both have to stay tuned to see what I do with this. We will watch to see how Lynn gets herself OUT of this state of INTIMIDATION and on to drawing or otherwise creating in these pages...due date for sending it in is Jan. 15, 2011. So I have a little bit of time to get going.

OY VEY

! Happy Sunday!

On our way to SF to see more ART!

STAY TUNED!!!!

There WILL be photos!

:-)