Off to Chico to Sell Our Work

  We will be selling our Mixed Metal Jewels in Chico starting Saturday morning at 10am at the Bizarre Bazaar at the Chico Women's Club at 592 East 3rd (3rd & Pine). 10-6 on Saturday and 10-5 on Sunday. We are happy to be returning to sell our work and visit friends this year, last year, because of the circumstance surrounding the fire up in Paradise,  was the first year since 1977 that we hadn't come to Chico to sell our work. It felt weird I must say. Glad to be coming back. Hope to see you.


                                                       

We're Off to Sacramento

A quick word here as we are getting ready to leave for our show in Sacramento, our 21st year of this particular ritual. Have been busy today packing and finishing up jewels and taking pictures of the new work. At this point I take pictures of just about every piece that we make. I wish I had always done that. Literally thousands of pieces that we made didn't get photographed and I regret that quite often. Since I got my first digital camera in 2000 that changed. I'm always appreciative when a long time customers wears a piece that I don't have a photograph of to a fair we're at so I can capture an image of it. Wish us luck in Sacramento.

On our way to Kings Mountain

We'll be heading south in a couple of days for a rendezvous up in the redwoods west of Woodside, south of San Francisco on Kings Mountain for their annual gathering of artists called the Kings Mountain Art Fair. We've made this annual pilgrimage for many years, started in 1971. We will have a better than usual selection of mixed metal jewels because we've done very little selling this year but have been consistently productive in our jewelry studio. Hope you can stop by for a visit. Here are a couple of collages of recent work, I'm still finishing a few interesting pieces and will try to get pictures of them up also.

Last Images Before Los Altos Fair

We'll be leaving the coast for the bay area very soon, driving down to Los Altos. Unfortunately it looks as if rain may be an almost constant visitor at the show so it's possible that we will not have much of a chance to sell our jewelry. The organizers are not canceling the show though. We will go and see, maybe the rain will stop now and then,
As I've learned after 50 years of doing outdoor art shows, you are always taking a chance on the weather. But only a very small percentage of the hundreds of shows that we have done over the years have been severely impacted by the weather.
This may be one of those however.
Details on the Los Altos fair on our upcoming shows page.

Los Altos Fair in Two Weeks

We will be returning to participate in the Los Altos Rotary Fine Art Show in a little less than two weeks. Our first out of town selling event for 2019. There were times in the past when we would have already participated in 3 to 5 fairs by this time of the year. We like the slower pace. We will have a lot of new mixed metal jewels at the fair, 2 collages of just finished work below. I should be able to post at least one more collage before the show. Some of the most interesting work doesn't usually get finished until just before we leave for a fair.

As I stand here at my computer I am watching a male blue jay flying into the small tree just outside the window behind the computer. I have been watching him for a week or so building a nest. He flies in with a twig or piece of fluff in his beak and places it in the growing structure. I'm surprised that he is building it so close to people (about 6 feet from me)

 and so low to the ground, 7 feet up in the tree. I'm hoping it works for them and that we get to see the babies at some point.

The Los Altos fair is Sat. & Sun May 18th & 19th
From 10  am to 5:30pm each day
Free Admission
In Lincoln Park, a nice long park along Foothill Expressway
Just across the street from downtown Los Altos.
A very high quality fair with a good variety of fine arts and crafts.
We've done it for 25 years or so. One of the two bay area fairs that we still do.
Check out the other exhibitors at http://rotaryartshow.com/
Hope to see you at the fair.