Prudence pouts

And here

are a couple shots of the pretty cocktail party confection I made.  I may have to make some more of these for Valentines Day!  Aside from bloody fingers from multiple stab wounds - this was a lot of fun to make.

 

Es ist sehr kalt.

December seems to be pretty much non-stop snow here every year.  So we've quickly gone from a chilly fall to the depths of Winter, complete with about a half foot of sparkling snow, Christmas tree expeditions, sledding, opening the advent calendar, cookie baking, birthdays, cocktail parties, band practices, fairly frigid temperatures, feeding the woodstove, wrapping presents, driving slowly, and attempting to make it up the hill - which so far is being accomplished in reverse. 

 

Hey Tina

Trego Christmas bazaar

Friday Dec. 4th 10am - 8pm;  Saturday Dec. 5th 10am - 8pm;  Sunday Dec. 6th 11am - 4pm

Such a pretty bazaar every year - it's different from most bazaars.  It's in a little log cabin in Trego (the civic center), and it's set up like a shop - where all of the vendors' items are mixed up together.  You just walk around shopping, eating complimentary cookies and sipping hot complimentary beverages, enjoying the heat of the wood stove and the huge lighted Christmas tree in the center of the room.  By far one of the nicer bazaars I've ever attended or taken part in.  Photos below of a sample of what I'll be selling this year!

 

 

  

 

 

Cocktail party!

Free shipping!

Over in my shop at etsy this weekend - through Monday.  Unfortunately only for US and Canadian customers this time around - international shipping is just so pricey!  Also have some new art and a couple dolls (gasp!) listed - so check it out!  xox

For Hermann

And it wouldn't let me embed it... but here.

And again

Another print - drypoint intaglio - this time with chine colle.  I love pink.

Ambrosia cake

4 layer ambrosia cake - lemon filling, lemon frosting, fresh raspberries on top.  I used 4 big lemons to make this cake - very yummy!  At the request of the now 4-yr-old birthday girl. 

Undercover

I have seriously been neglecting this blog, but I have been busy!  My printmaking class is awesome and I've been spending a lot of time etching in between classes and a lot of time in the studio and have a really great teacher who is totally happy for us to stay and work for hours after class, too - so it's pretty great.  Here are a couple recent prints I've made.  I am getting really pretty good at wiping these plates, if I do say so myself!  For the little Christmas print below I used a sketch that my daughter did a few years ago.  The print was made with a small zinc plate, hard ground, and acid etching process.  Then I added tone to the plate with aquatint.  It turned out really well when printed with the red.  The white on black print was etched on a plastic plate.  Original sketch also pictured.  And lastly, an etching I did of a previously posted ink illustration.  Also etched on plastic plate, but printed in brown ink, and using venetian paint and chine colle methods. 

xox