From crappy to worse to pretty damn good

My day had started off quite badly... Georgia(my 4.5 yr old) had me saying "them's the rules" and had lost most of her priviledges before 9:30 a.m. Already late for my daughters school I spin around to see red dots on my beautiful new Orla Kiely bag - tomato vodka sauce from last night's dinner had somehow made its way 10 feet from the dining table onto my new purse. These things -- I'm increasingly noticing -- HAPPEN when you have two little people in your house.

Then at noon, I spend a few vain minutes cleaning up to catch lunch with my accountant down on the water. After a lovely 45 minutes of adult conversation - my sweet bleary eyed Vivian awakes in her car seat, stirs slightly and then I realize it's time to pick her up. Upon reaching around her sides my fingers get gooed with that turmeric-colored poop! Every kid has blowouts, but this was a mess unlike anything I ever saw with my first daughter. Suffice it to say I needed to ask the staff there for a dish rag they would 'never see again' just to even get us out the door. Of course, these things always happen in public. At this point I'm angry... at this point neither the gods nor the fact that it will be a full moon can explain the crappiness of this day...

BUT ....I came home and checked e-mail to find out Emilie Kleiner wrote about me on her blog, which seriously made my day. Emilie writes about artists that she likes and also likes keeping current with B.E.S.T. (Baltimore Etsy Street Team), design*sponge and lesser know arts online zines like ESOPUS.

Thank you Emilie!

As she sees it

Being in touch with the right side of the brain is just not a problem for my 4.5 yr old right now. Like many parents, my husband and I are constantly mesmerized by the amount of sheer creative muster our daughter exerts. As we get older and all that darned conformity and rote memorization dumbs us down..... it is a really good idea to make babies so one can occasionally be reminded of just how open minded and cool we once were...

Rocky Mountain High

Always excited when I can say I've got new work for a show. Just about to head out the door to Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver and wanted to post an image of some of the recent eye candy I've been working on. Guess I went a little nuts on making pendants. There will be over 50 to choose from -- each poured a slightly different way. Jaw breakers, gum balls, long boards and just about anything else that looks like a lolly comes to mind. It will be a fun and exhausting trip, full of seeing other artist friends I haven't seen in too long and family from Nebraska.

It is always a privilege to jury into this event! Wish me luck!