She's Finished!

Sonya finished painting her fairy sculpture last week.
She painted and re-painted the eye brows so many times.  She was so cute!  She would lean in so close and make sounds and scrape it away and say frustrated things and try different tools and she is so intense. 

I love working with her.

Happy Solstice

First thing,

Lyd came in with a hurt rabbit.

After work

 potato farming @ community garden



The kids let me drag them off to the lake,

To practice our circus moves for when we run away.



Sunshine

Starshine

The light of my life

Marshy

I like butter.

And her :-)

Philly Art Museum, Roberto Capucci, Kids

The family and I went to the Philly Art Museum on Sunday.

It was family day and the last day of the Roberto Capucci- Art into Fashion-- Exhibit.

I love how brightly painted the outside of the Art Museum is right now.

My Starshine dressed to impress wearing her new hair feathers, a 1960's plastic flower clip, a Staci Louise Originals Necklace, red sequined-black fishnet dress, pink sweater with a fur collar, silver ring and pink flowered flip flops....That's my girl.

There was a bike race around the museum and free "Family Fun Zone"

We ate our picnic under this statue on the lawn.

It was a beautiful warm day.

I finally got her to smile. 

 obsessed with fiber these days

No cameras were actually allowed in the Capucci Exhibit... Color.... pleating.... sculpture in the form of dresses....   more color... more pleats.... Thinking on "creative masterminds"  and "teams of skilled artisans"  I think I could use a team of skilled artisans.  What felt like very industrial forms-- yet always inspired by nature.... hmm....
He did the sell the styles to the catalogs and the masses thing for a while in the 60's, then eventually switched to pretty much unwearable "Sculpture Dresses" @2000

I just noticed that a fella I used to know while I was in high school is having a show in Bangkok this month.    What was one weird dude.  One very interesting yet weird dude.  My mom used to call him "Prince"  Fun times.  Perhaps I should be embracing my weirdness more..... maybe I am, maybe you already thought I was kind-of weird ;-) 

Feeling like the luckiest kid EVER!

That's my girl!

She's feeling like a million bucks right about now.  I am very lucky to have a paint your own ceramics store just down the street from my home (maybe 2-3 miles)  I found myself out of black--- yep, I really like that black.  Don't think I could have gone another firing without it.  So, Starshine and I packed up the mail and headed out for a quick trip to the post office and ceramics store.  Only this time she realized that there was more than just glazes in that shop.  There was a lady there painting a pile of Christmas ornaments and OH BOY!  Aisles of green ware figures! 

We checked each Aisle 3 times before she found the biggest fairy statue in the place.  The owner thought I was kidding when I told her to pack it up.  I figure that'll buy us a good 4-5 quality working hours :-)

If my mom would have let me have something that big from a craft store when I was 5 years old, my head would have exploded.  She helped me load it in the kiln today for a soft firing and she's tending the kiln too.  She is SO excited!  It makes me so happy :-)

I did get Marla's earrings done :-)

I thought I was going to be making lots of jewelry today, packing up inventory and dropping it off....... but nope.  Not so far.  I spent a good deal of the morning helping that Starshine of mine write a letter to grandma.   GGG Ga Ga, RRRrrrr  RA RA, AAa  aaaannnnnna  na na, D  DDD  Da,  Mmmmmm  mm, AH aaahhh.

Tomorrow is back to the office.  And maybe a volunteer gig at night.... hope to get to my stock my shop on my next Artisan Clay day..... which will be Friday.  lol

What a fun and full life it is :-)