me and my lovely friend Vanessa (Happy Birthday dear girl!)

Hello all! As promised, here are photos from the opening of my show running all through September here at our local gallery, the Firehouse. I'm showing in the small front room alongside a super talented pastel artist from San Antonio who's showing in the main room. To kick off the month they host First Friday receptions to 'meet the artist'.

I was a bit nervous, but at the same time I was excited to be taking this bold first step and the whole experience was a bit surreal. I felt myself being totally at ease as guests & patrons started coming in and I got to meet and greet them, discuss my work, and answer questions about upcoming workshops. Feedback and comments were very positive overall and talks with other artists were constructive and supporting.

A special thanks goes out to the lovely girls at the Firehouse, Nancy & Nicki, for putting my show together - I'm still in awe at how creative Nancy was displaying my work!!

Wishing you all a happy & safe Labor Day holiday...

Gallery: Women's Day & a Blog Award!

I wanted to share this 'first time my work has ever been in a gallery' photo with you all - yay! This was huge step for me and even though this wasn't a formally juried exhibit, not every submission made the cut for this show so I am honored that my humble, little piece was chosen to be shown amongst such beautiful work!! As I think I mentioned this exhibit was for International Women's Day (which is today March 8, 2009) with a follow-up conference here on March 23rd.

(edit: just to be clear, the only piece shown here that's mine is the cowgirl portrait, I wish I was accomplished enough to say the others are mine too - maybe someday!)






















Also over the weekend I was delighted to find out that I was given an award from the lovely and talented Tracy of Altered Wonderland - thank you Tracy, I'm so very touched and honored!!

I now nominate 7 other Kreative Bloggers and pass this award along to them, all amazing & talented bloggers and online friends. I feel very fortunate that I've actually met 3 of them in person, *smile* [look for the stars]

It was hard for me to select just 7 for this award as there are so many other bloggers I wanted to give it to, but here are my picks:

1. Carla Kurt Anonyrrie
2. *Chrysti Hydeck Art by Chrysti
3. Jennifer White Wishful Thinking
4. Laurel Gaylord Studio Lolo
5. Regina rgrdesigns
6. *Susan Tuttle Ilka's Attic
7. *Vanessa Eccles Colorful Creations4u