Abbey is sharing the booth with Merce again at this year’s Taos Wool Festival. She’s made lots of funky purses and gorgeous handwarmers this year. Her booth name is In The Wilderness Art and their booth number is #26.
I’m all packed up and ready for tomorrow! When I’m not shopping like a madwoman I’ll be hanging in the Ravelry tent. If you see me come say hi!
Merce Mitchell will be in this year’s Taos Wool Festival. Here’s a sneak peak of her awesome yarn.
Merce is known for her felt skulls and people come year after year to collect them. Here’s one for this year.
Her booth name is Pure Felt & Vortex Spinning and is Booth #26 on the vendor map.
The Arte de Descartes opening reception was so much fun! Outside the gallery was this sculpture by Michael Neu:
It’s called Latilla Arch. Holes were drilled into each piece of wood. A long piece of bent rebar hold them all together.
This colorful sculpture by Ren Geertsen is called Maniacal and is made out of plastic lids and straws.
This is Pablo Flores and his artwork Green Cyberbug is over his shoulder.
I love that green ladybug!
I also met Leroy Fresquez and chatted about collecting art supplies.
His piece is called Recycled Assembly.
And who do we have here? Me baby!
I’m so excited that I got into the show.
These little metal people are so cute.
The artist is Joel Morse Lage and they are called Juice Jitterbug.
My friend Michael got into the show.
Her piece is called Orange Betty. It’s made out of straw bale ties. Very cool!
Terrie Mangat’s piece Saint Michael Scrap Bag was in the show.
She was in this year’s Beyond The Fringe as well.
The Glam Trash Fashion Show went on during the show. I’ve participated twice before and it’s so much fun. Here’s two of my favorite outfits.
Maybe I’ll make something for next year. I feel so inspired.
My sculpture Just One More Row is going to be in this year’s Arte de Descartes XI, also known as the Recycled Art Show!
Arte de Descartes XI
August 27 – September 11
Opening reception is Saturday August 27 4-8pm
Stables Gallery
(133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM)
The Glam Trash Fashion Show starts at 6pm. I didn’t make anything for that this year but I have in the past. It’s such a fun show. The Taos News wrote about this year’s show in the Tempo section-story here.
I’m super excited that Pearl gets to be in another art show!
In May Abbey and I went to the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta.
This was an amazing show! There was so much to see. Abbey and I ran around like crazy women gushing over all the beautiful art.
Fiber artist Cat Brysch created this stunning multi-media piece called Tierra Persona:
Unfortunately I didn’t have time to write down all the artists’ names. There was such great art there! This underwater piece is awesome:
A very creative use of buttons:
The quilts were mind blowing and it was hard to just pick a few pics to post.
This woman spun yarn to put into her artwork just like me. I liked her work alot.
And now for the highlight of the show. I entered my artwork Lunar Life into the show. Abbey and I walked over to the Embroidery section and there was my work up on the wall. But it got better-so much better:
I won second place! I was so happy (and teary)! I think I walked about a foot off the ground for the rest of the show.
A little felt Buddha:
There was a booth with felt journal covers-so lovely.
A recycled felt flower. I want to make one now.
What a wonderful, inspiring fiesta. It happens every two years and I’ll definitely be back for the next one.
Last month Abbey and I went to a yarn bombing in Albuquerque. The event was sponsored by the Yarn Shop at Nob Hill. Crafters gathered at the store to prep the bombs.
Flowers were placed on all the pieces as our signature. One woman crocheted a huge flower that I thought made a great hat.
Abbey having a fun time:
Me practicing a Jane Fonda mug shot:
We weren’t the only crafters getting wild that night.
After the prep work we went out to tag Nob Hill. The event happened on a Friday night and the street was buzzing with activity. There were musicians playing some groovy tunes.
We covered light poles, bike poles, bus station handles, trees and more.
A yarn bomb on a bike rack:
This tag was one of Abbey’s favorites:
We got rave reviews. People stopped to look at our work.
Some wanted to take our picture!
The one was one of my faves-
so simple and darling!
We had a great time doing this. The next day all the tags were still there! Yarn bombing rocks! It spreads such joy and makes a normal street pretty. Street art is so inspiring and I’m so happy to be a part of this movement.
Last month Thebes and I went to the Albuquerque Botanical Gardens with Abbey and Daniel.
Thebes brought his 8×10 camera to photograph flowers.
There was a children’s fantasy garden that was pretty fun. At the entrance there was a huge dragon sculpture:
Super groovy!
Here’s me and Abbey posing by a castle wall:
There were many sculptures that made the viewer feel small like this giant flower pot with a huge bee.
Of course there were flowers everywhere. It was lovely!
They were so pretty and smelled so good.
Many of the cactus were in bloom.
Another cactus flower. Do you see the spider?
Lotus flowers are some of my favorite flowers. I even have one tattoo’d on my ankle. See the bullfrog?
Abbey and Daniel being adorable.
So many flowers!
This one was in the Japanese garden area. I don’t know what it is but it’s gorgeous.
Here’s me amongst the flowers:
There was a bonsai show going on at the gardens.
This one was my favorite.
Me and Thebes being cuddly at the photo show we went to the day before:
If you’re in Albuquerque when the flowers are in bloom I recommend the Botanical Gardens. They’re wonderful!
Earlier this year my artwork got featured in the Taos Art in Town Hall program. Artwork is hung in the town hall for three months.
When people walked through the main doors my Green man was there to greet them.
My Lunar Life piece was hung in the hallway to the Mayor’s office.
I attached the moons to plastic canvas to stiffen them, sewed them to ribbon and then hung the ribbons from a branch I found while hiking.
Here’s one of my art tags. I love that it says my art is part of the “Taos art colony on display”.
Yesterday was May Day. You’d think the day would be sunny and warm. But in Taos we had snow:
Wet, heavy snow for hours.
Sieben was ecstatic. I bundled up and played with him outside with his froggie toy.
My birthday was last week. To celebrate I bought myself a fruit tart.
It was delicious and oh so sweet.
To celebrate I decided to go to Ojo Caliente last weekend. Early in the morning Ojo is practically deserted and you can get a pool all to yourself. It was so magical with the steam coming off the pools.
It may be cold but the desert is so beautiful in the winter. This is the view up from the Iron Pool.
But why would I want to go to Ojo so early? The Tibetan Monks were in town to bless the waters.
These Tibetan Monks were from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Atlanta. You can see official Ojo photos here.
Hearing their chanting was beautiful. And magical too-it was cloudy but during the chanting the sun came out and shone down on them.
In college I worked at the Snow Lion which is a Tibetan restaurant owned by the Dali Lama’s nephew. I learned a lot about the Tibetan situation and was lucky enough to see the Dali Lama speak at Indiana University.
When my alarm went off that morning at 7:15am it felt pretty harsh. Getting to see the monks blessing the waters was worth it though.