MARKETS, SHOWS, EVENTS, AND WHATNOT
Middleton Park, OKI, NC
This is one of my favorite OKI markets. It's usually not 1000 degrees yet and it's not at dawn!
Middleton Park, OKI, NC
Orange Street & 2nd Street, Wilmington, NC
I'll be there. The event is on both streets and meets at the intersection of 2nd & Orange. Hoping for great weather!
Sat 9-5, Sunday 10-5.
Orange Street & 2nd Street, Wilmington, NC
Middleton Park, OKI, NC
I'll be there June 8th, 16th, and 29th, Also July 6th & 20th.
Middleton Park, OKI, NC
So, I haven't updated in awhile, here or on etsy, but I have been working on stuff for spring & summer. I was very focused on sort of incorporating my dad's stuff into my work for really the last 2 years, since he died really, and focusing on the things he wrote about and loved, so lots of bird, flower, and butterfly themes were in play for 2024 & 25 and I think I added his poems to pretty much everything I made. Thank you to all who have helped me expand his readership! I know somewhere he is counting every one of you in his tallies. He was always making charts of how many people had read his poems and I know he would've been really happy about all his new peeps! I am, of course, still offering the poem crystals, and still thinking of something huge I can do for him, but it fails to come to me yet, although..wait til you see my new set-up...I went all out on the theme for my display!
But I know the time is coming where I need to refocus my work to things not all about my dad. That doesn't mean I'm excluding him. No! In fact, I think I have doubled down on how much of my stuff now uses his work and his life as a springboard and I like incorporating him and his work into my own. It makes me feel like I am still helping him and he was a brilliant man, so it's not like he didn't have cool stuff for me to use. But I know he would also want me to do my things, too. So you probably will see some more of that, the glass work and whatnot. I haven't finished or really started a painting since he died, but I don't see that around the corner. Eventually, I think. But what I've got in mind is dark, so, I am just not into starting it yet. And i know, I have totally left my etsy dry lately, but that's really because the work I've been doing was not really right for online. But once I finish the new skirts, those will go up, at least. I don't imagine I'll be in any art shows this spring or summer but it's possible I will do Artfest -we'll see- and if the Cameron museum does state of the art this year, I'll definitely do that, since that'd be great to get my dad's stuff even more eyes. I already know what I'd make for it, but I haven't heard that they plan on it this year, though. They should. That's the best show they do! So, I'll keep you updated and if you happen to be in Oak Island for my markets, well, you should come.