Yikes!
Forgive me friends! This is what happens when all of your interests start spiking all at once!
I had meant to write you..ohh...say..three weeks ago. I could have told you, then, about all my new ideas and artwork, all of which were being created for an enchanted trip to IOWA to teach beekeeping. But, alas, the DOING of all of the art overtook everything since I was, after all, on a deadline to get all of the artwork done BEFORE I actually left. And so, what ended up happening was a huge rush to finish everything and a huge rush to pack and actually get there. And then after Iowa it was time to decompress. Except in New York City, there's no time to decompress! So off I went running, once I got back from Iowa...and...well...you get the idea right?
Here we are. Three. Weeks. Later. Or is it four weeks, or five, at this point?
Nevermind.
Instead, I have a few notes and perhaps some questions for you, dear friends:
First, I wanted to let you know that I did NOT manage to sell too much of my art in Iowa so I DO have some lovelies FINALLY in the Etsy Shoppe, including SOME DOLLS! And MORE Woodwork, of course! I will have them all up THURSDAY on Etsy, but here's a preview!
"Hare amongst Stars"
"Messenger of Love" Original Woodburned pattern of fox dashing through the forest with hearts!
Kittenfish!
My woodburned spoons!
Remember, the sale of all these little goodies goes to fund the farm and horse-and-wagon project!
Speaking of the traveling dreams, you can go ahead and read ABOUT the Iowa journeys which took me out and about and away from this blog over at BEYOND VAGABOND.
In other news, I was recently honored by my friend Lisa Johnson, dollmaker extraordinaire of Skunk Hollow Country Store, and who also features a whole host of doll artists of Whymzee Art Friends. How she has time to do this, I don't know, but she is an amazingly kind person to do this! She recently featured me on the Whymzee blog and asked nothing in return!
THANK YOU LISA!!
If you are interested in wonderful patterns and equally whimsical and prim dolls, LISA is the one for you, please visit her sites, they are lovely!Finally, a question for my faithful friends and readers. You may have an inkling about the many crazy things I do during my day. Unfortunately, my interesting workload is not getting any lighter, anytime soon. Besides THIS blog, there is the horse-vagabond blog, The Renegade Farmer website (and radio show), and now Bronx Bees...in addition to actual beekeeping, art, oh, yes...and the day job. So I was thinking of getting rid of this blog altogether. But this means (hopefully!) that everyone must move over to the Vagabond blog to read my stories.
This gets complicated because:
1.I don't know if people are interested in reading about farming, dreaming, bees, or anything other than the art I've done here.
2. The "flavor" of this blog is different than the Vagabond blog. Also, I don't know if I can randomly place items for sale, artist features, or doll swaps over there. Which is why they were over here. But now I'm not even sure if I can keep up with the dolls swaps and such, anyway!
3. So I guess this can just be a sale page, and all else goes on over there (and yes, it seems like I periodically talk about making this JUST a sale page, but it just never seems to happen! DOH!)
Any thoughts? Advice? I really cannot work FOUR sites, 3 different sorts of jobs, and keep my sanity! Oh. Wait. The sanity was out the window YEARS ago!!
I'd love to hear from you and I'll keep you posted as to what happens!
