Let the event anxiety commence!
This week has been a whole lot of crazy, and not really the good kind. But! It’s almost Friday when I’ll be heading to West Virginia for the WV Pop Con! With The Underbridge Society I will be vending over the weekend at a lovely convention in the hopes of having some fun and making some money!
The new found object piece is coming along slowly. Today was spent at Canal Quarter Arts slow stitching a leaf stitch in some lovely hand dyed thread, while the blackwork gets no love until next week. Mostly I’ve been busy making puppets and dealing with my inventory in preparations for the weekend. Now I’ve done what I can do and it’s time to load it up and head out!
Once Pop Con is finished I’ve got three weeks before the Grassroots Festival at Hurkamp Park downtown Fredericksburg. :-D. Busy! Busy! Busy! I’m looking forward to this event. It will be back to our roots as The Underbridge Society with just John and I displaying and attending. I’m hoping it will be a lovely evening in good company with good music and lovely people.
On the non studio front I’ve started strength training and pilates under a personal trainer. I had my first sessions this week and found that I love pilates! Even if the reforemer machine made me sea sick! I’m hoping this will be the boost and initiative to get back on the trails. I miss walking. I know my dogs do. Speaking of dogs… Echo and I will be taking an obedience class together with 2speakdog, We love their approach and were the only trainers I could find that did group classes and didn’t want to take your dog and board them while they trained them… and don’t use any prong or electric collars.
Well. That’s all the gnews that is gnews as Gary Gnu used to say!
P.S. Picture of Echo as pa
Sleepy stitches and puppets galore…
Hello friends!
Last week was full of slow stitching, puppet making, puttering, and staring off into space. Not the best of progress, but needed I think.
This week is prep for WV Pop Con the 23-24. Inventory has been checked, tagged and packed. Now to put finishing touches on a few projects and puppets! Moar puppets!
I decided that the mushrooms were a lost cause, putting them in the bad boy box to be revisited at a later date. A new blackwork piece has been started and I’m well pleased so far, keep your fingers crossed.
A new puppet is in the works with an extra pair of arms found at the bottom of the puppet bin. He has a working name of Slim Jim (don’t ask me where THAT came from, cuz I couldn’t tell you!) I am trying posable fingers again, only this time I have a tutorial from Project Puppet to help! Hopefully I will have a video to share with you next week! There will also be a handful of glorified sock puppets to take along to WV PopCon.
Tomorrow is docent day at Canal Quarter Arts where I believe I will take the blackwork and pretend to be productive…. or possibly Slim Jim to work on… we’ll see how I feel in the morning, but something will be worked on tomorrow. :-D
That’s it for tonight folks! I hope you all have a lovely week! Thank you for coming along on this journey!
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Nothing like having your day hijacked by a hubby who needs rescuing from DC!
Nothing like having your day hijacked by a hubby who needs rescuing from DC! Instead of house maintenance in the morning like planned, I’m putting aside some of it so I can spend the afternoon doing the maintenance this website needs. Hopefully to reach those people out there that like puppets, rusty bits and bobs, and little faces peeking out to say hello!
I’ve got the rest of my checklist taken care of (to a point) so here I sit with puppets on the brain! Ever had that problem? It’s not a bad problem to have, really. If I’m honest I probably have puppets on my brain 90% of the time! I’m currently putting the finishing touches on one that developed a Creature of the Black Lagoon look… I’m not mad at it. : D
The Underbridge Society has an event coming up the weekend of August 23-24 At the West Virgina Pop Con in Morgantown. It will be our first time vending at this event so we really don’t know what to expect, but we are looking forward to the adventure! If you are so inclined you should come check it out! I’m told it is loads of fun!
Also, I will be displaying two pieces in the “Song Titles” show at Canal Quarter Arts in Fredericksburg VA August 21-24! Come down and see all the art on display! Maybe you’ll find one to take home!
Whelp! That about wraps it up for the week… see you next week!… and thanks for stopping by!