My life took an interesting and productive turn when I
mentioned the show debut to Colleen at Wonderlab. I dropped by to re-stock my cards in the gift shop, which is
managed by Colleen. She told me
that visitors who see the cards often ask where they can see the art, and that she
would love to be able to direct people to the actual pieces. She asked if I had a rack card for the
show—the kind of small promotional card you can pick up for free to help
advertise a show. I’ve never done
one, but that only meant I had a new challenge! They said they would happily distribute rack cards for the
show, as did some of my other notecard distributors, so I was off to design a
rack card.
I spent a big chunk of my week, in between completing pieces
for the show, coming up with a design I liked for my new and first-ever rack
card. My final design tells you as
much about my friends as it does me, because I got a huge amount of help and
input along the way. When I came
up with a prototype I showed it to Cappi Phillips, Dawn Adams, and Sarah Pierce
and got some very useful advice to create the second version. I belong to a Facebook group called Art
Girls, and they were wonderful at giving me their opinions. Sometimes you have friends and don’t
know what their background is, and I learned that my friend Pat Hecker used to
be a graphic designer. She gave
some great advice to help me finalize my design. The rack card design is complete and off at the printers,
and they’ll appear around town as soon as I receive them.
As I’m writing this, I’m in the final stages of completing
my last piece for the Garden Walk show.
I’ll snap a picture before I post the blog so you can see the lilies
I’ve been working on. I
encountered a very unusual phenomenon as I was quietly working away in the art
studio. Usually I listen to WFIU
but sometimes I like to work with the music off and listening to my own
thoughts, and I swear that as I finished the lilies I could smell them! It freaked me out a little bit.
With all my energies directed toward finishing my garden
collection, there hasn’t been time to think about much else. Time marches on, though, and there are
two big events coming up at the end of the month. The Trashion-Refashion show is always a big event. Even though I’m not modeling any
clothing this year I will have my Re-Shirts there for sale. The Open Studios Tour was a big hit
last year, so I’ll open my home again for the show at the end of April. I’d like to have a bunch more Re-shirts
for each of those two events, so Monday afternoon I’ll pull out my trusty
sewing machine and get to making more.
That should be a fun change of pace for a few days.
On a final note—good news! With only a little prompting, Jim recognized that it was
time to bake me another pie. I
went off to a meeting Monday evening and I came home to the delightful aromas
of a cherry-strawberry pie sitting on the oven. The next day, even before I could get a picture, Jim gave
Tommie a slice for breakfast.
Apparently Tommie didn’t want to take a piece because he knew it was
‘Mom’s’ pie, but Jim assured him it was OK. Just as he lifted it out I came downstairs in the morning
and they both looked a little worried.
In the end, I got my picture, a slice of delicious pie accompanied by an
espresso, and a relieved and happy family!
Until next week,
Martina Celerin
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