More good news.

First of all my winnings arrived from LaWendula. Yippee!! Here’s a pic of all the yummy goodies

and second… I am really proud to announce a collaboration I am participating in with Jennifer, a photographer and Dave, an amazing writer. You can see more about it on their blogs, here & here. I will be creating a limited edition custom binding once they have finished all the hard work of creating. Jen and I will probably team up on the graphic design. There may also end up being a print on demand book too. I’ll keep you posted.

Thirdly I will be sending some work off to Leeds again this year to the book fair, working with the same book arts collaborative. The piece I am sending started out as the one for Seth’s new book, but has become much bigger and interactive. Pictures to come later this week.

Tomorrow is the first day of classes, another new beginning. I am always filled with hope and excitement… all in all, good news from under the snow here in upstate NY! And I can’t resist one more egg picture!!

egg-citing

OK really sorry for the bad pun, but I am so psyched about this new work!!! After making many of the little egg meditations I was trying to figure out how to get them to stay all piled up when I thought of the work of Petah Coyne. She is one of my all time favorites, and I have always wanted to do a wax dipped Coyne-homage project, so I decided to give it a try. And I am thrilled with the results so far! Firstly dipping stuff in hot wax is like spending time at the spa, the wax I used was an old jar candle so it smelled delicious too! My hands are super soft and smell like caramel, and the work is looking like this

I don’t think it is finished yet, it is still not melodramatic enough! But it is moving in the right direction to be finished in time for the juror’s choice show next month!