This Year At the Fair!

 

I have had a whirlwind of a week! Actually The past three weeks have been so busy with preparation for this years Country Living Show in Rhinebeck, NY 

After all the creating (which is the fun part) comes all the packing. Boxes and boxes

stacked and ready.

I think that my booth looked really great this year. 

My husband assembled piping for me to

hold my walls up with. Since these spaces are very generous spaces, he was able

 to adapt to the correct size.

 

We are in the barns up on what they call livestock hill. They are very open

and airy. Filled with sawdust it is a very rustic look.

I met some very lovely people from all over the United States, Canada, England and some visitors from 

Australia! 

Friday and Saturday were beautiful but the heat came in on Sunday

and we all were melting. 

I felt so good to get home and put my feet up :)

Country Living Fair is Next Week!!!!

As always it's down to the wire for me. I have been busy the past few months but the two weeks before this show I am in frantic mode.....

 

 The Bones Sisters are getting primped and

 ready to go!

I am having too much fun with these sweeties.

Busy Day in the Studio

 I spent the afternoon sewing the pieces together for this years batch of 'Bones Sisters'

There are two left over from last year which was the first year that I designed them. 

This year I will have a limited edition of 12.

 I want to have them ready for the Country Living Fair in Rhinebeck, NY in June.

New art is also being created so new prints and some other ideas that are in the works.

And this guy, my sweetie, Rocky is so tired from supervising lawn mowing by Lou

and sewing by Sue. He is having a little nap time....

Art Show

 On Friday evening my son and I went to the closing night of the

Mid-Hudson Arts Council 50 Years Celebration Show.

I had two pieces in the show, a poster design that I did for them way back in 1988. 

I didn't get a picture of that.... I forgot to.

I also had a painting of blackbirds coming to roost for the evening in a tree.

 We looked all through the show and couldn't find the painting, we found the print very nicely displayed with other memorabilia in a glass case. It looked great. But the painting was no where to be found. As I was looking behind a wall for it, a friend said..."aren't you thrilled to be featured in the front window?"

We walked right by it on our way in.

Not very observant are we?

 

On My Drawing Table....New Art.... Sheep Series

I am branching out a bit 

(not that I don't still love my birds)

and have been working on a series of sheep paintings.

Living here in the Hudson River Valley there are so many 

beautiful sheep farms scattered about.

 I love the contrast in this one between the blues and greens

of the sky and grass

and the blacks and grays of the sheep.

 And this guy just makes me smile, what a happy face!

They are done in acrylic on canvas, small paintings that are 8 x 10 inches.

I have the prints listed on my ETSY site.

We are still dealing with yet another Polar Vortex here in the northeast.

I am encouraged by the new month, we are closer to spring than to winter so it

can't be much longer now before we can open the windows!

Happy Valentine's Day!

It began early this morning....

pushing the storm door through the snow in order to get out.

About 24" fell totally.

Yes there is a van and a car under there :)

He is back at it again, this will take the better part of the day to dig out.

The birds came..

Rocky dove in...

Finally the sun and it is a beautiful winter wonderland.

(From my window.)

Even a visit from a woodpecker. You have to look carefully just 

below and to the left of center.

I wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day!

And Yet Another Snowy Day!

Here we go again.....

 The visibility really is this bad.

 I always do a wonderful business at the bird feeder during a storm. The birds

use up so much energy during this kind of weather so I went out last 

night to restock before the snow came in.

 Rocky is a 90 pound Chocolate Lab and he is having so much trouble

moving around in this snow.

Thank you for getting me back in mommy! I don't like it out there.

 

 

My dear husband is overwhelmed with the snow, he is running

out of room to put it! (and for health reasons the doctor said

no snow shoveling for me, so he is on his own ...)

 

 

But the cavalry showed up.....

 Thank you neighbor Ted!

 

 

On another subject, I had a 50% off coupon for Michaels and treated

myself to yet another glass dome. I'm thinking spring display, maybe

a small nest with eggs....spring can't be too far away, I hope!