It's official. I've been published!

I received my free copy of 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs. My Jill Plays Jack brooch is featured as a large image. Yay!

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Well, Rock the District was a wash this weekend. Even when the sun showed up, people were not willing to buy. They love my jewelry, but are too chicken to buy and wear. Oy.

I have an event in Brownsburg next weekend: Festival of the Arts. I hope the weather is beautiful and people come to shop!

Time to load Etsy up with jewels.

Cha-Ching!

It's been a year since we left for Italy. We miss it!

Some really great news...my library gig is now art teacher slash librarian! I am so excited my brain won't stop churning up ideas. I dug out all my art from the old days: ceramic pieces, drawings, paintings...I kept almost everything!

Caroline Mecklin retired and I was offered the position in addition to library. She collected tons of materials for the kids to use on projects. I am inheriting a maxed out art room and kiln! The students loved when I brought in my rubber stuff for a art and science demonstration. I'm stoked to share all the other art techniques with the students. We are going to study color theory and use it for op art, sand painting, printmaking, bookmaking, mobiles, still life, and all sorts of ceramics. I'd love to do some metalworking with them, but this will take some planning and prep. I am thinking about terracotta warriors, greek vessel painting, Cristo transformations, flip books, Seussish paintings, fibonacci op art, linoleum prints, .....

Ketchup

Well...between traveling and seeing and limited computer usage...I'm behind. 3 weeks or so. Lots to come...stay tuned.

Always on the Book Hunt

Museum shops and librieria stores had great selections...thanks to amazon and imcpl, I can aquire them cheap to free. I plan to share some of these with the HCC kids.