Thanks Roberta and Emily!

What a fun day in the studio!

It's the last big summer weekend in Cambria and we had lots of happy visitors in town. I had a great day with sales and interesting customers. Among them was a mother and daughter pair, Roberta and Emily Feit. They had similar tastes and each purchased a piece from my yellow/black etched series.

The battery on my camera was dead and we got this from Emily's cell phone. Emily was so nice to email it to me.

How cool is that!

Small bowls and vases

Itching to get back to the studio... Here's the current pursuit calling my name... Small bowls and vases with etchings from the "Endangered and Indigenous" series focusing on threatened plants of California's central coast.

Bowling for customers

I had a spree of bowls for the new series. Very pleased with the latest batch. Moved from yellows and blacks to softer tones with golds and ivories, and chocolate brown for the etched lines... Got these out last week and haven't been back to the studio since then. Waaaaaaa. Am in a new cycle of work with my "paycheck" career and it's intense right now. I'll be back to the studio soon... I hope!

Oh baby!

What's in a name?... Lots of warm wishes! These make great gifts for proud parents of newborns. Seems like I've done a (baby) rash of them lately!

And now for something entirely different...

Focus. Focus. Focus. That's been my mantra lately. But, well, truth be told, consistency is not my strong suit. Awhile back Illustration Friday posted the word "Impossibility" as the theme word for their weekly challenge. At the time, I was dealing with a shoe-versus-feet challenge of my own. The result of that is the tile piece pictured here. It got to this stage about a month ago and has yet to be grouted, finished off... Yea, I know, one foot in front of the other.