Hodgepodge Fandangle

Thought I would post a few items of interest (well, they're interesting to me!)

This Thursday, April 28, from 7 to 9 p.m. there will be an opening at Hal Marcus Gallery of Arte' Pequena, miniatures by 25 local artists. Besides refreshments and a cash bar (including pimento cheese finger sandwiches by moi) Cecil will have four new little pieces in the show (he likes BIG canvases so it was a challenge for him to size it down.) If you can, please come and check it out...

And for all those that keep asking, Cecil has a job. He is a dealer...NO!, not that kinda dealer! All those years of collecting stuff is finally paying off and disbursement has begun. He works hard photographing, describing and listing items for sale on eBay (you have no idea how much time that takes!) and is doing quite well, thank you. So if you are interested in first edition books, periodicals, paper memorabilia from the heyday of the sixties and seventies, and a whole hodgepodge of other things...look for him on eBay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmtmynd1
He even has some of his prints up this week...we'll see how those do.

For those of you that are NASCAR fans (good on you), my Bud finally did well this last Saturday night in Phoenix...him and Mikey both. If you aren't a NASCAR fan, you don't know what the heck I am talking about, do you? Hah!

While I watch NASCAR, I bead...have to keep those hands busy or I get nervous and shout at the TV...sometimes I shout anyway and scare the family who are busy doing other things. "Oh, it's just Mom, You okay Mom?" Anyway, I made some really gorgeous beaded barrettes and a pair of beaded earrings while not watching and watching the race. Really happy with the way they turned out and will post pictures of them soon as they are finished (glued to the backs, threads clipped, earwires attached, etc.)

This coming weekend (yes, I am sure of the date this time) Jan and I will be doing La Vina in La Union, New Mexico. I have been working hard to make stuff for this show and all the others coming up after. My summer is going to be very busy as I am also going to be doing the farmer's market at Ardivino's Desert Crossing on the Saturdays I am not elsewhere so postings here will be infrequent, I think.

Here are some new origami earrings(I sold all the other ones I made) that I finished last week. They are fun but very labor intensive as I coat all of them with a finish to make them sturdy and waterproof and each origami bead is less than an inch square...imagine the folding of those little papers!



Note: I tried to resize the picture but was unsuccessful. Sorry for the giant earrings! Really, I am not trying to slow down your computers.

(Whoops...came back and found that they resized really, really small. At least your computers will like them. I will try and fix them if I get the time.)