August song

all time favorite, Diana's Baths

the beautiful river at the Inn

happy, though we don't look it...

top of Cathedral Ledge, prior to three climbers popping over the face to greet us!

on the top of Mt Washington - clear day 6288ft.

So, a few days have passed.. my birthday did too, including a special weekend away with my love and a whole lot of back to nature time. Just what was needed! Swiming for an entire day in a river was the grandest of luxuries I could imagine. The bonus was being surrounded by mountains and sheer quiet. bliss!

But back to work and luckily for me, I love that a lot. The last week of summer classes is always a fun time, this summer was no exception! Everyone worked so hard and the process was exciting to all and the results were delightful.

We just finished rounding out our Fall/Winter/Spring 2011-12 so that should be posting up on our site right here today.

Don't forget to stop by our Art Stroll on Saturday night from 5-7 p.m. as well to see Out of the South! It's jammed with incredible works in a wide variety of media. New little works are coming in this next week too. Stay tuned!

Maine moondance

moondance, originally uploaded by artstreamstudios.

A funny little timelapse photo of the girls dancing under the moon last week and Busy weekend with Grace off to college... the times they are a changing! Photos coming of new work I have been finishing up between vacationing, college-ing, (er that's not a word!) and birthday partying ... psst, happy bday burton green, danny blajda, and you others who are turning the new decade out there ... yeah, it's not the 3-0 one ...

Ah life is rich and full! Photo above of my brother in law on the drums at his birthday party last Saturday night - The George Westbay band - does "Joes Garage!"

What August is ...

what august is, originally uploaded by artstreamstudios.
from the sea to me. glass, weeds and ceramics we found!

Been away to the beautiful coast of Maine for some days now. It's so close and yet, with our busy life we don't explore it enough - till now! We had a lovely time beaching it, getting back to the quiet things in life and being a family of four.
Back to reality and work now, refreshed and ready to go.
While I was gone - Grace from design*sponge posted a guide "Bloggers guide to online shopping" and there is a lot of good info there from a variety of bloggers! Thanks Grace for including me in the fun. Take a peek here for some wonderful links around the web for all sorts of great shopping for your home, self and friends! See you soon with other bits and bobs from August!

Summer comes along

growing in a pot in our back garden - the colors wake me up!
What a wonderful weekend. Perfect weather, croquet, pingpong, endless chatting, amazing food, family and fun. (pop over to my flickr if you want to see some more of that) On to summer now! Taking a little break from here for a couple of days, but leaving you with some links to explore...

• I wrote a new post up at Bizbox - (all about things which have inspired and influenced the way we do business at artstream)
  
• Saw some pretty neat things through the eyes of jan over at poppy with renagade craft fair in Brooklyn...sigh, next time! note jan's new banner, i just love it.
  
• crust station had a post which captured my attention on fairgrounds and circus because it had some great links to coney island- a special spot in the world to me.
  
• a great new product from Herman Miller - called c2 climate control (it's going to get hot here soon...) via MoCo Loco
  
• a great sounding call for "edgey crafters" at freshlyblended blog in case you missed it?
• this amazing house posted over at sfgirlbybay blog - truly pink. wow!
• a fine clock which would satisfy my thirst for fonts... via swissmiss
• bblinks - a new to me blog full of great linkity links!
  
• three layer cake does it again (of course I am late in even mentioning this) but in case you missed it - The new design trend - paper! Full of photos to make you want to go out and buy even more paper. oh! and if you have not seen the wonderful photography from Kristina, check out her flickr pages - beautiful!

So off for a few days to college orientation with the dh and freshly graduated daughter. I am completely thrilled to be kicking away from the computer and work in general, so don't take it personally - I still love you best and will be back soon.
The word for the day is - direct, as in dial, conversation and no b.s. Have a wonderful Monday!