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Rock hunting

art, crafts, creativity, Family, fun, nature

Today Rebecca and Andy came for a visit. Andy grilled hot dogs for our lunch and I went rock hunting with Rebecca.

Our daughter creates beautiful copper trees. She sells them in shops and under our canopy at the Seymour Farmer’s Market.

A photo of her trees on their patio

Her trees are all mounted on rocks, most of which she found on her dad’s rock pile on the farm.

As I sat on our cart, Rebecca went rock hunting. She looks them all over and only takes the best rocks for her trees.


One by one Rebecca takes the cream of the rock pile.

Andy says Rebecca has enough rocks at home, but there will never be enough rocks for our daughter and her copper trees.

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A new adventure

art, crafts, creativity, Odds and ends

I’m not writing much tonight as I am tired.

Bob and I exhibited for the first time at a Farmer’s Market today.

Even though sales were slow–okay, non-existent, we will go again next week to the Seymour Farmer’s Market and every Tuesday through August because we had fun. We saw lots of people and met up with old friends.

My next column will give the complete story, so stay tuned.

Susan under canopy, ducking showers….photo by Bob

Blow is at its end. Now, I’m ready to put my feet up.

Farmer’s Market newbie

crafts, creativity, fun, Wisconsin

Bob and I are preparing to set up a canopy at the Seymour Farmer’s Market tomorrow–if I’m there, expect rain.

I got out my old canopy and tried to remember how to set it up. I haven’t used it for ten to fifteen years and hadn’t kept the instructions.

Canopy ready for assembly

I tried to put it together myself, as I had at art shows, but I needed help. Bob looked at all the pieces and together we managed to get it up.

Canopy up successfully

We found a couple of holes in the material but patched them with Gorilla Duct tape, so I think I’m ready for our new adventure.

Tomorrow I’ll post about our first day. Wish us luck… Yes, Bob will be with me. Don’t forget to stop by our Green canopy.

A Bob selfie

Bob, creativity

Bob and I were doing a project outside. Of course, I thought to take a photo so I could use it in a blog.

Bob has used my cellphone to take photos before. He always surprises me with his artistic abilities.

I can’t say this is Bob’s first selfie, but maybe it is. Before he’s taken photos of his fingers and my feet. This selfie was a surprise, but kind of expected, especially when I saw which way he was pointing the camera.

A Bob selfie

Enjoy.

On being creative

art, crafts, creativity

Watercolor painting has been my favorite form of painting. I’ve done it for years. Now I discovered alcohol inks and I’m off and running again.

At first, I painted Easter eggs. Now I’m on to painting tiles. The wonderful thing about alcohol inks on tile is if you hate what you made you can wash it away with alcohol and start again.

4 by 4 tile paintings

I’m heading over to Sissy’s in Seymour for coffee this morning and will take these along. Some of my tile paintings are at Mama J’s work-shoppe in Black Creek, too.

Sometimes I start painting one scene and end up with something completely different. Alcohol inks have a mind of their own so no two are exactly alike–I have some 6 by 6 tiles, too.