I'm from Maryland originally and I love Maryland crabs. My birthday is in the beginning of August, high crab season, and I always chose to go to a crab shack to celebrate. I miss sitting outside on a hot summer evening, mouth on fire from the seasoning, salt and cayenne under my nails, eating that…
Archives for March 2009
two more mini owls
The second mini owl is now up in the shop. And the third one is a baby owlet for my May show at Lark & Key. Here he is hanging out with his mother. Hooray for tiny little owls!
Polish mini owl
First, some lovely old wooden alphabet stamps I bought in Atlanta a few weeks ago. I love these all jumbled together in a bowl. Next, my sister Rachel has started a blog. Rachel is a wonderfully creative writer, artist, cook, lawyer and all around awesome person. Check out this great poem she wrote about leading…
goldfish
I revisited an old pattern of mine and made a goldfish today. He came together so nicely. And I still had a scrap left of the vintage necktie that I had used on the original one. I like the lips on the new one better and I added a solid orange back fin, too. I…
spring bird
The birthday was fantastic. This was the first birthday that Roxanne has had in which she was truly happy and that was amazing to witness. She welcomed her friends and sat with them at the table to do the craft project. She loved the yoga class, gobbled two lamb chops and lots of noodles and…
shadow box
"Gathering"mixed media shadow box with soft sculpture bird8" x 8" This shadow box will be for my show at Lark & Key opening in May. I haven't worked on a shadow box for a long while and it was really pretty fun to do. And the orange and blue and gray – I'm still enjoying…
hen in orange and blue
This is the second piece in my orange and blue series for a two-person show at Lark & Key in May. I'm also working on a mixed media shadow box with the same color scheme.
Gallery Show of Soft Sculpture Birds: Young Blood in Atlanta, GA
I’m back and it was an amazing experience. David and I spent the day on Friday setting everything up and he was so incredibly generous with his time. He built half a dozen shelves from reclaimed wood to display my birds and his smaller paintings. And he brought with him an amazing collection of natural…
see you there!
I'm off this afternoon for Atlanta! I'm so excited, but suddenly I'm afraid I'm going to miss my two little girls an awful lot. Here is a another small sampling of what I will be exhibiting. Prices will run generally similar to what they've been in my shop. Please call (404-254-4127) or email Kelly (ybgallery@mindspring.com)…
in the studio today
Working on two pieces at once.