The weekend at the Golden Fine Arts Festival was a success-not much rain, not too hot, lots of people and I had a great show! Many thanks to all the volunteers who make that show happen. And many thanks to my customers–thanks for supporting my work!
My next and last show of the summer is August 29 & 30, the Evergreen Fine Arts Festival. Stop by & say hi.
getting ready for the Golden Festival this weekend. Forecast says it will be cooler than it is now, but rain is in the forecast for Saturday night. I hope it rains & passes through. Last year it rained on us Saturday and the crowds ran for their cars. Sunday was really busy, the sun came out & the crowds returned.
This is an old bird house I made, sitting on a post in the garden.
so soft, so small….
and frustration! I now have two copies of every photo I’ve ever taken. Must find time to go through & delete photos. I’ve lost my email address book for now, please send me an email, so I have yours!!
On the brighter side, I had a fabulous month selling jewelry at the Evergreen Gallery, I am restocking there, and Baby Does Clothing, in Golden, will be featuring jewelers they represent that are in the Golden Fine Arts Festival. Stop in there & look at the case featuring my work!
I am almost up & running under full computing power. But I still have lots of work to do. I have all my music, and all my photos & files. Hopefully I will have time this week to finish.
Wanted to post some flowers taken with my macro lens. I love the dandelion!
And the grasses….
Hopefully, more later! Candice
Looking ahead to next month, I have two shows:
Golden Fine Arts Festival, August 15 & 16.
Evergreen Fine Arts Festival, August 29 & 30
Stop by and say hello.
Hopefully in the next week, I will again have iPhoto, Photoshop, etc. Thank goodness for Time Machine, which has backed up my data. Still need to get my e-mail address book, etc. Okay, I really feel for folks who have had this happen in the past. For me, it is a new experience, and I will learn from it.
My new mantra: Patience………. Patience……… Ommmmmmmmm
If you are looking for something to do over the weekend, head up to Boulder & say hello. I am in booth #16. Sorry for the late notice as my computer’s hard drive CRASHED, and had to be repaired. I’ve had this trusty Mac PowerBook for 6 years. It’s been my devoted companion, my side kick, my LIFE!!!! It’s very odd how darn important it becomes! Anyway, I still do not have email, but I’m working on that!
Here is an image, from an artist who does wonderful rock & wood carvings, Dawn Sorrell:
www.rocknoggins.com
from the Boulder show, July 25 & 26.
Okay–not even WordPress is working right!!!! The photo should be at the top!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I recently cast 3 sizes of my bezel cups, from my original PMC pieces to sterling silver, and just finished a series of collages, and then filled the cups with Ice Resin, from Susan Lenart Kazmer. They turned out great! I was using a heat lamp to hasten the curing, and the lamp got too hot in one area, and LARGE bubbles appeared in the pieces too close to the heat lamp. Ice Resin is a nice, clear resin to use.
Which photo works? I am trying to take “casual” shots of my jewelry, not using my desktop photo studio set up. Also, resin pieces are really hard to shoot because of the glare. Which one works for you?
Okay–this batch had sooo many colors–and the last batch, if you look for the yellowish oval piece towards the left corner, almost all came out goldish. I have been packing the container, layering charcoal over the pieces until I have the container filled to the brim. This time I inverted the lid, to make more of a seal, so to speak, and wow–the colors!! The dusty blues are awesome!! You can see some of the fired pieces from the sunshine drying photo below in the older post.
On a hot sunny Denver day, temperature about 90 degrees, my drying method has been to set the bronze clay pieces out in the sun to dry. It’s really fast, if you turn the pieces occasionally. Hockey puck on the left, jar lid on the right, the black attracts the heat.
I’ve been teaching clay & jewelry at a kids summer camp all week. We were lucky to get out of town over Father’s Day weekend. We have natural landscaping in the mountains at our home outside Winter Park, CO. This rainy summer so far has produced beautiful wildflowers. Some day we hope to spread some seeds, but for now, the yard is au natural. We just had all our beetle killed pine trees removed–notice all the green!
I love the purple tucked away in this one.
a little like baby’s breath…
