Fun New Audience

Now that I know how to search for the "good stuff" on Etsy it just gets better and better. Looking up artist's favorites and seeing who has added them to their favorites, then to the favorites that have chosen them can eat up the better part of a day if you let it. There are fascinating finds everywhere.

On the flip side, when I post an item and someone adds it to their favorites it'll get seen by a whole new group of people I couldn't even imagine before. People from all over the world!

"Menopausal Mind" was a piece I did a few years ago that still makes me chuckle. Even tho there is slim chance it'll ever sell, for only 20 cents I'm giving it a whole new audience. The Edvard Munch decals were sitting around the house for a long time before this perfect use of them over the gold leaf. It's elicited some fun comments from people.

To see it at my shop and read my pithy description, head on over to my Etsy shop right this minute!

Happy Children Sculptures

About the time I think I may have made my last Happy Child I get an order for one or two. Lucky for me, my last last call was for four of them!

Gail and Cynthia from Fine Eye Gallery (Sutter Creek, CA) called and told me that Fine Eye was celebrating 20 years in business and that they wanted to order several sculptures for the gallery's anniversary. I met them both many moons ago at an ACC Wholesale Market and was so very glad to know they were still going strong. Over the years they've found homes for quite a few of my sculptures.

I've not kept the most immaculate records, but it appears I've made between 75 and 80 of these little sculpture. They've evolved quite a bit from the first rough, but personality-filled figures. Some have had carved hearts; some have had commemorative inscriptions. Friends who know me best laugh that I make such a "cute" thing, but to me they have been a constant process of learning clay as each is a meditative pinch pot from the feet up.

If you want one to dance in your home or garden, here's more about them on my catalog website. $350-$500 retail depending on size.