I found myself wandering down to the Closing Gala of the Nuts & Boltz exhibit tonight, largely because I'd planned on going. It was the sort of art event I'd take Mom to, except that along with fine wine & fine art, someone had booked 3 of the local punk bands for the entertainment. I had a pretty good idea of how exactly that was going to go ( Read more... )

Facebook is a funny place. I've reconnected with people I haven't seen in over a decade. This includes a woman that "worked" at the radio station I DJ'd at. (I put worked in quotes because it was a college station that I volunteered at & she was one of the students in the Communications program who ran the studio. I don't remember her DJing so ( Read more... )

Today, I am resting. I pretty much have to as I am too tired & sore to do any work. So I've got my Twilight DVD in & I'm trying to get caught up on all the e-mails I haven't been reading while I've been trying to finish a commission & doing all the Arts & Drafts stuff. I even have a box of Sno-Caps to go with the movie. (They're my favorite movie ( Read more... )

Wow, it's going to be a busy week.

Thursday & Friday, I'll be doing metalsmithing demos at Arts & Drafts at the BrewErie- check out www.myspace.com/artsndraftsfest for all the details. I'll be there from 5 pm until at least 9 pm, if not until 11 when it ends. My work will also still be there on Saturday, too. I'm bummed that I don't have any ( Read more... )

For any of the local arts & crafts folks, at the Erie CTC meeting on monday, I volunteered to run an e-mail list for us through YahooGroups ( Read more... )

Although to be completely honest, I didn't realize he was still alive.

The New York Times ArticleI realize that with me being such an obviously "artsy" artist, it might come as a surprise that I'm such a fan of Wyeth's work. I see him as being in a similar vein as Norman Rockwell (whom I also like), although with a very different feel & goals. ( Read more... )

Copied directly from Craft Time Continuum's Bulletin on MySpace:

i would like to announce the beginning of something great for local crafters. it is call The Craft Time Continuum. a guild for crafters ( Read more... )

...Tommy began while we were sitting around the table at karaoke & I laughed loudly. Things went a bit downhill from there as Tommy tried in vain to backpedal & just ended up digging himself deeper. He asked Kilbane to take the metaphorical shovel away from him before he hit China, which resulted in Kilbane declaring that I had the "Mt. Everest ( Read more... )

IUt's been a really good few days for me. To start, I nervously hopped on the scale Monday morning for my weekly weigh-in to discover that somehow I managed to actually *lose* 2 whole pounds over the Thanksgiving holiday, which is pretty amazing ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's a pain in the ass being a creative person. See, there's a reason I'm always carrying around notebooks & sketchbooks & things. It's because I'm never certain when an idea is going to hit, particularly a really good idea. And that's fine. The problem I'm discovering is that working in a shop doesn't really lend itself to taking the ( Read more... )