I haven't been able to add anything here for awhile - extra time seems harder and harder to find. Spent a lot of time working on my drawings, and now have a grand total of six completed. I'm hoping to keep plugging away at them, in hopes of a show in 2014. It will take me at least that long to get enough pieces done! I've also spent a fair amount of time working on jewelry, at times making more folded bottle cap pieces. Sometimes I'm in the mood for my other line that includes vintage faux pearls, beads, maybe a found object or two; old dominoes, for example. I sometimes wish I could narrow down and focus on just one thing, but as a Gemini I find that impossible. Whichever art form I leave out tends to burst forth again later, unwilling to be relegated to the back burner. I guess I'm fated to a perpetual struggle as to time allocation. Maybe it's like that for all of us.
I'm happy to report that I have now added a new gallery to my roster: Redux Gallery, on East Burnside @ 8th. It's an awesome shop, full of interesting art, jewelry, and sundry other things. A lot of the work contains recycled materials. They're starting out with a small collection of my folded bottle cap jewelry; go check it out. I also took a small batch of new work to Guardino Gallery (NE Alberta @ 30th).
As for Mercy Corps, I don't qualify for their grant program, but I have signed up for their small business class, starting this coming Tuesday. I'm excited and a little nervous, and hopeful that it will enable me to broaden my audience, increase my sales, and lead, one happy day, to self-employment. Wish me luck!
