How Things Fall into your Lap

Putting an old friend up on my blog today....Man with Squeezebox: Ireland....I created this piece a long time ago and it's still one of my favorites and I still have it in my inventory.  Just placed in on the TAFA on-line store along with three other pieces to see if I can generate some interest in my fiber work.  It sometimes takes a long time to find that perfect someone that has the same interest and feels the same about an image...the wait can be forever.  But I keep on trying. 

It always surprises me how things fall into ones lap when you least expect them to do so.  I always have on going projects for the gallery, but I do like to take a break from the same projects and work on new items.....and this month, TAFA approached me about their on line store, so I took the up on it.  Then one of my sisters mentioned that she and another of my sisters were going to hire a booth space at our local quilt guilds annual show in Oct/Nov and would I like to participate...yes.  And then talking last night to a bowling friend who works in the floral business...he read that I was going to start on some floral ideas and he asked me to make up some smaller pieces around 10x10 or 12x12 and he could get them hung at the floral business he works for...great idea to work up my ideas small to see if they work and then I can create them in a larger size which I prefer.  Three things that just seemed to happen out of the blue.  You have just got to love what comes along from time to time. 

Having my husband home after sixty days and the amount of care he needs has really caught me off-guard...it's a huge amount of work each day...along with the doc appointments, home health appointments, finding time to run out to the grocery store and pharmacy....yikes!!!  At days end I am totally spent and so ready for rest.  Hopefully as the days progress, he'll need less and less help and I will be able to have more time creating...selfish of me a bit, but it so much of my passion.    

Sacramento365.com Featured Artist

Beginning this past week I was placed on the City of Sacramento's citywide blog, Sacramento365.com as their March featured artist.....and I've had a great response to my work being seen on their blog.  No sales yet, but I've had loads of comments from various people who have viewed my work on the blog.  One never knows where this will lead and when something will develop, but the exposure is definitely worth the effort to get my work noticed.

I finished my last two commissions, they have been picked up and I have been paid.  I have NO projects in the works, no deadlines to meet, no commissions to work up, no gallery needs display wise at this very moment in time....something that doesn't happen often.  No I can plan for my next series of artwork...which I believe will be to tackle a series based on floral/flower design.  I am slated to be one of the featured artists at the gallery later this year and this is the time I can hang new and different work in my display without it having to be juried/approved by the general membership...so I'm thinking it will be floral work, which no one in the gallery is doing right now except for one acrylic painter.   I plan on keeping it as simple as possible, using loads of hand dyed fabrics and my own hand drawn images as I want to perfect that side of what I do.  I would say I'm not a drawing type of person, but I should be, so I'm going to tackle that part of the deal. 

Hubby possibly coming home next Wed after almost 60 days in the hospital and rehab facility...and finally I will be able to have a full day at home for the first time since this all began in January....way too much stress...all I know is that I need a vacation and can't see that happening any time soon.  Lynn is doing much better, is walking well with his walker, standing for balance, changing clothes all takes a huge effort but he's improving day by day.  He's going nuts in rehab, making me nuts with all his phone calls...and then I'm there from 11am to 6pm everyday...weekends even more because nothing happens on the weekend....a long journey and I'm sure it will continue even when he gets home.