Gee How Quaint

Time to get back to work

The month of June has been an exciting, fun and eventful  month as my family from the states visited me here in the lovely city of Edinburgh.  We had joy.  We had fun.  We got sunburned in the sun.  For an update on the visit (warning:  update ends on a sad note) please visit my other blog at Tea Towels and Sheets.

I had decided that I didn't want to have to rush around working whilst my family were visiting, so now, well now, the list is rather long and daunting.  As I am having a stall at the West End Fair during the Edinburgh Festival in August, I must get to work on creating artwork to actually sell in that space.  Put this note in your diary folks:  August 12 - 15, West End Fair, Princes Street Gardens.  The fair actually spans the month of August, however, I can only take part for this short period of time. Artwork prices will range from £20 to £200.  You can expect to see works of the castle, tenements, tower blocks, some with LEDS, some without.  I am so excited to carry on with this work.  I did find that my hands were twitchy during the 2 1/2 week break from working. 

With that said, I must scoot and get to it.  This afternoon I have a meeting with an art space facilitator and am hoping to come out of that appointment feeling rather chuffed with life.

My new addiction

My latest blog reading addiction is from the creative genius of the New Dress A Day blog.  She has given herself the challenge of spending on $365 for the year to buy clothing from thrift stores, then re-fashion them into amazing, up-to-date marvels.  If only I had half this talent. 

Look what she can do with something as hideous as this....

and skillfully change it into something as pretty as this...

Hurrah!

LED take two

This is the messy wiring on the back of the work. 

   

And this is the front of the work. As you can see, the switch in the lower left of the work is part of the piece.  It's interactive!  I really had such a good time making this.  I could not have done it without the help of Sarah and Al.  Well, mostly Al, but Sarah was a nice addition to the conversation.

And Sarah...this is for you.

Today I worked very hard in my home studio because I was making lots of art pieces for the upcoming Festival in August which is in Edinburgh and many things happen and it's like fun fun fun fun fun and stuff and my dog acted particulary good today.  Take that, former student of linguistics. (You may need these for the previous sentences: ,,,.,.,.)