a weekend away

We traveled this weekend. Stayed warm inside cooking, laughing & reading books. I'm almost finished with a knitting project, update later I promise. On the way home we stopped at a open house jam at chirps & dots place. Wish we could have stayed the whole evening, but 2 toddlers in a house full of instruments is an accident waiting to happen. Still, it was a grounding, great-full & sweet weekend.

monday night music

I work on monday nights, home by 9pm usually. Last night I came home to this. How wonderful, the kids were fed & happily playing in the other room. Friends passing through town stopped by for a meal and to play music. Other friends were called to join in. Sometimes ( most of the time) being a guitar makers wife is really really cool.

Hiawatha Music Festival

Our first family trip to Hiawatha Music Festival, in Marquette MI, happened last weekend. Usually I send T off to the woods to play but we thought we'd give this a try. It worked well because we were on our way to our cabin for a week vacation. It was a great experience, great crowd and the music was wonderful. What we did not expect is how hard it would be to play and camp with a 16 month old Oscar, who as it turns out is FEARLESS!. The festival was so well organized and carried out, the kids tent was amazing! Homemade instruments, kids parade and guess who weaseled his way on stage?? Dances, workshops, funnel cakes, a great first family festival. Cabin entry to follow soon. Oh, new camera too!

final lap

I'm in the home stretch for the show. The paintings are finished, but a few more up my sleeve so stay tuned! Here's most of the source material for the ball jar series. I am so excited, this is the first concrete series that I've done, from conception & sketches all the way to the gallery wall. I suppose that I could insert a part about my kids into that last sentence but this rite here is about me. I can finally say without a shrug of the shoulders that I'm an artist ( which used to mean, I have a degree in something that I can't make money at nor do I have the time or inspiration ) but now I can. sigh.
so now that I can see the light at the end of this tunnel here's what I'm thinking about next.

Sewing some clothes. I reorganized the sewing area a little bit, I hope it's easier to use & clean up now.
I need to spend more time with him, playing music.
and get out of this cold & dirty basement and out into the sunshine. It's summer !