Here you can see the new quilted stretched canvas.

So the Baystate show was... interesting. Since it's so out of the way it mostly depended on Baystate employees to stop by on their lunch break. It was a very nice space with about 40 vendors. Met a vendor Zoe who makes neat found object jewelry. I sold some birch candle holders and one super awesome gold painted rhubarb leaf.
Then I took off for Boston where my mini masterpieces and a few leaves were in the Mass Art Holiday Sale. Sold one leaf and 10 minis. It is nice to have a show that someone sells your stuff for you. Not sure if the traveling to Boston to drop off and pick stuff up works out financially in the end, but it is a good excuse to get into the city and see my friends. The birch candle holders really sell themselves, sold a few more sets to friends in the city. Need to start a new batch. Please email me if you want some and I can ship it out- they make great Christmas presents.

This past weekend I had a fabulous time in Boston catching up with old friends and dropping off artwork at the Mass Art Holiday Sale. The sale will run from December 5-10, 2011, in the lobby of the tower building at 621 Huntington Ave and has all sorts of goodies from students and alumni. It looked pretty packed to the gills with neat stuff this year, so if you stop by, think of it as a scavenger hunt and find mine. I put in 5 beautiful painted concrete leaves and 40 mini masterpieces.
Stopped by the Boston Bizarre Bazaar on Sunday and had a very inspiring walk around, so much felt, jewelry, silk screens and beautiful babbles! Makes me want to play with glitter and resin, dust of my oils and finish a quilt.

Hopefully participating in a Holiday show to benefit Rays of Hope, a program sponsored by Baystate walk for breast cancer. There will be 40 artisans displaying their wares, myself included. All booth fees are being donated to the cause.
I will have more of the birch candle holders, leaves and small artworks for sale. It will be located at the Holyoke Conference Center Upper floor ~361 Whitney Avenue ~ Holyoke, MA on Friday, December 9th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
See you there!
more info at: https://foundation.baystatehealth.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=289

I will be at the Monson Art Council's 33rd Annual Holiday Craft Fair which will open on Saturday, November 26th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and continue on Sunday, November 27th from 12 noon until 4:30 p.m.
Here are some pictures of current projects I have been working on that am excited to debut. Please stop by and get your holiday shopping out of the way! Shop local!

Come on down to Memorial Hall in Monson for the second and final day of the Monson Holiday Sale. Yesterday I sold out of birch tree candle holders, have 6 more sets for today and will be taking orders if they sell out again. Get your Christmas and Hanukkah shopping done early this year and support your favorite local artist!

Working on a new project involving quilting, which I have been doing obsessively lately. Sometimes when sewing, a block looks to good on it's own I can't bear to jumble it up into a bigger quilt. So I thought, "Stretch it like a canvas and hang it on the wall!" I did four tonight, they look pretty alright. Photos to follow. Will have them at the Monson Holiday Sale the 26 & 27.

I will be participating in the annual Monson Holiday Craft Fair, what used to be known as the Big Mac. This year I will have handsome birch tree votive candle holders, sections of quilts made into wall art pieces and the concrete leaves painted up all nice, greeting cards and maybe some other treats. The show runs November 26 & 27, 2011 from 9-4:30 Saturday and 12-4:30 Sunday.
At the Mass Art Holiday Sale I will have Mini Masterpieces and painted up leaves. The Mass Art show runs from December 5-10, 2011 10a.m. to 7p.m. daily.