Round Robin Press

Look Out birds and a recent wedding. I need a better camera... Happy Tuesday!

Sold!

The show was great. Lots of interesting and fun pieces and my piece sold! yay. If you are in Austin you should definitely stop by WATW and see the show. There are over 200 artists that participated this year and it will be up until October 6th.

Red Hot Red Dot show this Thursday

I just finished this sleeping fairy and shipped it off to Los Angeles. And this Thursday is the annual Red Hot Red Dot show that I have a piece in. If you have the moolah, come out and suppport this awesome arts in education fundraiser at Women and Their Work. More info here about the event

And thanks everyone for super supportive comments on the press. Looks like I will need a new motor and a LOT of oil to get this 1916 press up and running again, hopefully by next week.

C&P 10"x15"

It's here! And let me tell you it was an EVENT getting it down the driveway, around the grass, and into the studio. Thank god I have double doors. The press showed up naked to the wind strapped to a trailer that ended up being too wide to fit through our gate... Then the problem solving and finger nail biting began (me being the biter)! Two men and a very petite woman wearing flip flops began to do their pipe rolling- winch releasing dance until the grass and broken plywood literally stopped the press dead in its tracks. After lots of under the breath "man, a bobcat would really do the trick. I wish we had a bobcat. What has Stanley gotten us into..." I suggested we go to one of the nearby houses under construction to see if we could find a bobcat. And we did, one block down the road! Thirty minutes later the press was sitting pretty in its new home.

If you are thinking of getting a press and moving it yourself, don't. That was a feat, weighing in at 1800 pounds it was worth a LOT of money to me to move this small elephant into my studio.

I'm a few weeks away now, the press needs new rollers, cores, trucks, and the motor needs to be rewired and hooked up. She's lovely though and I'm trying to decide what to name her.

Favorite words of the day "Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?" from
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I feel like this should be the title of every parent's life, at least at my house.