Where can you see my work?

I have left Artique for something closer to home and am now at Micropolis Gallery in Gloversville. Micropolis is located inside the Mohawk Harvest Food Co-op at 30 N. Main St (the Schine Building). They are open from 8:00am to 6:00pm every day. I will be in the gallery to meet and greet on Wednesday the 23rd from 10 to 1. I have some new work on the wall over there that I am really excited about.
Also you can see my mini-purses/phone caddies for sale also.

More Computer Problems

I can't access the Etsy site. Or the National Weather Service. Other sites are fine. It's so weird! I have virus protection so I know it's not a virus. But what is it??? The page starts to load (in the case of the NWS) and then stalls. In the case of Etsy, it just never even starts loading. I will get my son on the case eventually but have 2 weekends at Eagle Mills, plus a couple of days at Artique, committee work for Micropolis and a lunch date coming up. Trying to work on purses in between. Still need black beads and black buttons, and small round brown beads. Hard living in the woods sometimes! The last time I went to Saratoga Beads they were closed (and they were supposed to be open). Arghhhhhh!

What's New?

I really thought I would get back to regular posting but it is not to be. I am incubating purses and don't have time for anything else. I still have to make more beads, and buy more accent beads, design a hangtag, have them made up, design a display, have it made up....much still to do. They will eventually find their way into Micropolis Gallery in Gloversville to start. When they are ready.

A simpler version of the purses could be on etsy within a week, I will let you know when this happens.

The End is Near!

My desktop computer will be fixed on Saturday, so that will be the end of a difficult number of weeks with only my old laptop to work with. It'll be so nice to have things working properly.

My daughter and I went to Stockbridge, MA yesterday. First we went to the Berkshire Botanical Gardens where there were plenty of things in bloom, including daylilies and hydrangeas. We also saw a cork tree, and had a picnic lunch under a tulip tree. After lunch we walked around Stockbridge and saw a number of awesome things including the Red Lion Inn, and the location of Alice's Restaurant. We drank mocha lattes and had mousse (me) and gelato (she). Then on to Chesterwood, home of sculptor Daniel Chester French, most noted for the statue at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, but also the scupltor of The Spirit of Life in Congress Park in Saratoga.

Sunday is the Heart of the Park Craft Show in Long Lake, NY. Forecast is for 50% showers. I still remember when the water was ankle deep up there during a storm 2 years ago. Hope we don't have anything like that this year.

"gimme five, I'm still alive"

Tulip Festival was very nice, I did well enough and the weather was decent. The Fulton County Art Show exhibit was a huge success and I am so thankful to Michael Hine, who recommended me, Ann Lee Clough and everyone else involved in putting on the show.
Tomorrow I am bringing a small collection of framed pieces to the Frothingham Free Library in Fonda to be shown there till the end of the month.
Also tomorrow I will be sending in my application for membership in the new "Micropolis" art co-op soon to open in the same space as the Mohawk Harvest Cooperative Market's new digs in the Schine Building on N. Main St. in Gloversville.
Thursday night is Northville Central High's choral music and band concert which is always wonderful to hear.
Friday working at Artique!
Looking ahead to June, I am going to be the artist of the month at Grace North Church in Clifton Park, and also have 3 art & craft shows.
My plants are growing beautifully, the eggplant, tomatoes, and delicata squash doing particularly well. Outdoors my peas have popped through the surface along with mixed Chinese greens and lettuce.
I can't say enough about how much meditation, mindfulness, and happy thoughts have improved my life.
Cooking going well too! Tonight it's chicken pot pie with phyllo crust & shallots!

Raab and Cabbage

Seeds!

Started 3 varieties of tomato, 3 varieties of pepper, celery, eggplant, cabbage, broccoli, raab, basil, thyme, savory, and rosemary in the house today. I also threw in some nasturtiums for fun. And Bush Delicata squash. Now I already know that squash does not like to be transplanted, but we have such a short growing season here that I have to try. We got some delicatas last year, but I just think we would get a better yield if they had a head start. It's an experiment. The celery is also an experiment.

I am really looking forward to cooking out of the garden this summer. It is SO much more fun to go out and pick lettuce from the backyard instead of going out anywhere to get it. (Although we do LOVE to go to Barbers Farm for things we can't grow ourselves. We are just came to the end of the potatoes we bought there in the fall, and still have red peppers in the freezer). We do grow our own potatoes and peppers, just don't have enough space for a whole winter's supply. Well, we have the space, but not the soil, living on the edge of the forest, our topsoil is almost non-existent. In the back yard, all our garden soil was bought and put into raised beds.

Since I've been cooking more this past winter, I've noticed that Jamie Oliver cooks just like me.

The other night I made this fabulous Vietnamese Tangerine Sauce to go with the swai fillets. Swai is my new favorite fish. The sauce called for white wine but since I didn't have any, I substituted a handful of green grapes. Genius!