Hotel Felix

How cool is that? I received these images yesterday from Heather Stewart
who worked on the Hotel Felix project for Soho Myriad.
This is a small boutique hotel in Chicago.
I love how my work is protected like the Mona Lisa.... :-) totally cool!

Upcoming Shows 2009

October

Hotoberfest
Saturday, Oct 3, 2009
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Glenwood Park
916 Glenwood Park Drive
Atlanta, GA 30316

November

Paideia Art Visions
Saturday, November 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, November 15, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m

ICE-Atlanta
November 21st at Ambient Plus Studio!

Small Angel Blowout at Whitespace
November 28 and through Chistmas

December

German Christmas Market at the Atlanta International School
December 05, 2009

Swedish Christmas Market at the Trolley Barn
December 13, 2009

My second quilt!!!

Now about my second quilt that I am still working on as we speak:
I've been studying books and toying with ideas until I stumbled upon this Martha Stewart Quilt in October 2005. Since then I have been collecting our old Jeans. After years needless to say, I got tired of this pile and I thought it was time to cut them up. That took a few months.
Now that they were all cut up I tried to lay them out. It's really hard to work around the kids, since they are with me pretty much all the time. This is my workspace.... you get the idea!


Well, the second time I got to lay them out I actually had time to play with it (yesterday) and I started to sew the strips together. I will finish the top this morning!! Yay. Of course I want to make two, one for Noah, one for Sophie.


I also saw this beautiful Gee's Bend Quilt with Jeans. So beautiful. I never got to go to the High Museum, when they had the exhibition, but I ordered a couple of books from the library.
Here is my work in progress right now. I'm planning on backing it with cuddly flannel in blue.


wow. so, i was writing this last November or so and abandoned the blog.
The quilt is now finished and it was awesome and such a labor of love.
It is warm and cuddly and I'm proud I did it for Noah. May he be enveloped
in love forever! Now I just have to find a picture of it finished....
well, i don't have one, but I found a couple of more process pictures, you can see the
backing and how i started the stiching:

My first quilt!!!

I recently finished my first quilt. I have been yearning to make one ever since I got pregnant
with Noah 6 years ago. (Shit, I'm getting old)
So, my mum was visiting last year and we went to a quilting store. There they had displayed quilts all over the walls and her eyes fell on a pretty Gingko leaf quilt. I promised to make it for her birthday. Then I forgot about it, because she left. But I stumbled upon the pattern recently and started to get cranking on it.

It went awesome for a first quilt. First I picked out the fabric with a nice employee at the store.
That took a good hour with Sophie falling asleep on my back.

Then I started to cut it out immediately at home, so I wouldn't forget what fabric we picked out for what. Next day I cut out the circles and leaves (another hour).
Another day I ironed the fabric stiffener (forgot what that was called, sorry, dedicated quilters...)
on and sewed the leaves on the circles and the cirles on the squares. Another 2 hours.


Then, over the weekend I sewed all the pieces together and that was it. Within a week I was back at the quilt store to pick out the backing. A nice employee offered to do the topstitching for me.
I think I could have done it, but I really didn't want to mess it up, since it is my first one,
and it is as I said for my mum!

I picked it up another week later. Then I worked on the binding; that wasn't bad either.
The blind stitching probably took the most time, but it is so relaxing, it was totally worth it.
I love sewing! It is really relaxing to me and I can do some while the kids are around.
I'm really proud of it and it is gratifying to have something hand-made in my hands.
I'm hoping to give it to my mum in person soon. Don't know exactly when I will see her,
but December at the latest.

flying high... relatively speaking.

I'm having a really good day. Thankfully I was able to work all morning and got a good
start at a bunch of things. Made an angel, a large tree vase, mugs for a friend, an advent's
wreath, and started a couple of large vases.

Then I got my groove on at Dance 101 with the firecracker teacher of the Salsa Fit class.
It is so envigorating and I sweat like a pig. It's crazy. This teacher has energy like I used
to have ten years ago. I hope one day I'll get back to some kind of better shape.
Anyway, envigorating it was. My head was still red 30 minutes later.

Now I made a cake, wiped down the toy room, cleaned the kitchen, made the kid's dinner,
and am generally in a good mood.
Oh, and I was meant to bake: I found those plums that are not common to Georgia,
but I grew up with them, so naturally I had to make this German yeast cake.
I just grabbed what I assumed to be enough for a cake, and check this out:
The perfect amount for the cake pan. Not one too few, not one too many!
And did I mention I have four kids here?
I feel like ... one of those perfect fifties women right now. What do you call them?

Inspiration

Lately I haven't been able to find my groove and I'm probably taking longer than I should...
I feel like I am so much at the beginning of where I want to be,
that it makes it even harder to get started. I still have a lot to learn and grow.
Thinking about it overwhelms me and petrifies me.
I think that's why I stopped painting. I didn't think that was going to happen to pottery.
That was my safe place. Easy going and I could just do it.
My husband also brought up an interesting point over the summer:
"Why is it, that you can do
handstands on a diving board and not translate that into your art?"
I'm still mulling over that one.
Anyway, here is something that I found inspiring.
I hope I can just continue to do what I do without thinking about it too much.



PS: Are they sure they weren't styled by Vogue???

Fighting Atrophy!

Finally I am back to writing. It has been a long summer with lots of child-oriented activities.
It's been fun, but also tough on me. No real time for myself let alone work!
I hope to get back into the swing of things. I don't even know where to begin, but I signed up
for a lot of shows, so I better start asap. More later!


Here are some picture of a fun day at the studio with the kids; doing a Raku firing and some wheel throwing. They had a blast and especially useful was the hose to rinse the kids off!
All finished off with a great Snow Cone at the place next door. Summer fun!