More Pigments from the show

Lisa Congdon cadmium, originally uploaded by artstreamstudios.

If you haven't already seen this lovely piece, I suggest that you pop over here and check it out!
By Lisa Congdon - part of our Pigmentary Portraits exhibition.
Thank you all for the nice comments from the last post. You are all wonderful.
A huge thanks too to Jan at Poppytalk for mentioning my new-ish little etsy shop - flohmarkt. I have an update of wonderful plates this next week there. More on that later...

the motherlode of mod mikasa

the motherlode of mod mikasa, originally uploaded by artstreamstudios.
just a little late night news flash... i will admit it. i am a dish a holic.
i love kitchen goods and well, this set was just screaming my name out at the local shop.

i got it home and heard the groans of my family.... so i reluctantly listed it in my little flohmarkt shop.
go there, have fun, save me from myself!
a full service for four with the only flaw being one tiny chip in the top of the sugar bowl.
hey, maybe i can keep the little shallow dishes.....

Scoop of life

This week has already proven to be filled with adventure and summer splendiferous-ness. Big party for 14 yr. old Chloe on Monday, packing and shipping a lot of artwork to live in new exciting places, fun little workshops with kids and adults and packing for aforementioned teen to bustle off to summer camp this weekend. Squeezing in the hanging of an inaugural show at a new off site location in town ( a new huge wing of our local hospital has opened and they put in a small gallery space which we are curating and maintaining) and some speed weeding of the garden has me looking forward to the weekend. 

I finally got (after three years of waiting and saving) an electric palette for my encaustic painting. no. more. griddle. I have saved it for this weekend to fire it up. Ya - hoo! I have a body of work started in acrylic for the summer painting session and some of the works will translate into encaustic pieces.

What are the scoops about? Well, I think they represent the right number of hands I would love to have right about now in the week... and they are little vintage finds available at my little flohmarkt shop.

The Flohmarkt is open!

beehive measuring cups available at flohmarkt
I needed a diversion I guess - along with a little housekeeping, destashing, decluttering... so I went and opened a little etsy shop called Flohmarkt. Flohmarkt is the German word for "flea market" and well, it seemed appropriate for my idea. I have always collected a bit of this and that and love the eclectic and decayed, along with the idea of re purposing and reusing things.
Lots more goodies to come, but there are at least 10 items there now. I hope you take a peek!