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 findings – feathers and gourds, turtle shells and a deer skull – to put out with our work.

When it  was all up it really was a neat show to see.

This pedestal was orange and we had a very sweet intern paint it white.

The opening was really fun, too.  I think Kelly has a picture of me and David together.  I’ll post it when I get it from her. I learned a lot by watching people interact with the birds.  The flying birds got a lot interest.  All five of them were sold before the opening party. I had a lot of requests to make a mobile.  More pictures from the show, prices and availability can be found on the Young Blood Flickr page.

I spent Saturday walking around Virginia Highlands and Little Five Points, eating and shopping.  I stopped at a spa and got my nails done.  I started and finished Homemade Life – what a joy of a book.

And then I flew home to these little faces.  We made hamantashen this afternoon because we are celebrating Purim at nursery school tomorrow.

Stella will be dressing as…you guessed it, a princess/fairy/ballerina (same costume as Halloween).  And Roxanne?  Haman, of course.  The villain.  Always the villain. She is showing me her Haman grogger in this picture, and her new pirate skully rubber duck.

It was great to get away – especially to a warm place where the daffodils were already blooming – but it is great to be home again.