Sweet Home Alabama

I hope your Memorial Day weekend treated you well. I know mine did. We took advantage of the extra day Daniel had off and went to visit family down in Alabama.

My weekend included lots of river views...

And turtle feeding. (They *love* dog food!)

Country sunsets.

Golf-cart rides.

And "cow wrangling".

(They mostly just ran away from us.) The closest I could get was to this yearling.

As usual, the visit wasn't long enough. But I'm thankful we got to go at all.
Happy Tuesday to you!

StudioFinn Shop Update

Crescent Moon Dangle Earrings

Rustic Metal Shards Earrings

Tiny Nature Charm Necklace

Nacre Pendant with Genuine Pearl

Forest Floor Charm Necklace

All of these will be appearing in the StudioFinn shop over the next few days, if they're not there already! Etsy's photo uploader is being extremely slow, so I'm listing things as my patience allows.

I think the Crescent Moon Earrings are my favorite : )

More New Things

I finished up, packaged, and shipped a custom order for a friend of mine over the weekend. She provided the photo and I did the rest. It's a gift for a friend of hers. I hope she loves it!

The miniature day lily I got at the Farmer's Market last weekend has starting blooming! I love its yellow. Such a happy color.

I've also been playing with some new tools. By "new" I mean I got them as Christmas presents and hadn't touched them yet. It feels good to take a break from glass and work with metal again. The StudioFinn shop will be getting some much needed attention over the next few weeks.

I've also added a list of links (to the right -->>) titled "People I Know". So many of my friends are getting/building websites of their own, showing their amazing talents, that I feel the need to share them with you. Check all of those links out. They are all amazing. You won't be disappointed. I am so proud to know so many talented artists.

Wishing you a happy and productive week!
-K

New Addition

We added a new member to the aquatic family this past weekend. Meet George! He (I am assuming it's a he, although I think snails can change sexes? Don't quote me on that though!) is a "Blue Mystery Snail" of the aquatic variety, obviously. I think the name is derived from the color of their shell, which you can't see at all here. But it's a beautiful bluish-grey. I'll try and get a photo of it sometime soon.

Our aquarium gets a fair amount of sunlight and algae has started growing already. Instead of getting chemical drops to clear the tank up, we wanted to take the more natural approach to maintaining our little ecosystem. Snails love algae. It seemed like the logical thing to do. If you look really closely you can see his little mouth going to town on that glass. I love his little "moustache" too.

The Beta (who I affectionately refer to as "fatty fish" because he can never get enough to eat!) hated George the first two days we had him, but I think he has figured out that George poses no threat to his food supply so he's stopped picking on him. Thank goodness.

Cloth and Glass

Art isn't the only thing I sandwich between glass.

My cloth and glass creations can be found for sale here.

A Preview

Some more small paintings that I've been working on lately.

Weekend Wrap Up and a Backyard Visitor

I hope everyone had an amazing weekend. I know I did! Saturday was filled with fun adventures. Daniel and I went to the Jonesborough Farmer's Market Saturday morning and picked up a few goodies, including a miniature day lily, cherry tomato plant, and some gluten free peanut butter dog treats that my dogs go crazy over. I am so happy its farmer's market season. Buying local really is the way to go.

Then Saturday afternoon we went out to Kingsport, TN. for the annual Racks by the Tracks beer tasting and barbecue festival. I had a blast. There were probably 20 different beer tents there. $25 got you in to sample as many beers as you wanted, along with a souvenir glass, and the food was amazing (although not included in the ticket price, which is understandable). There was live music as well. Overall a great community event.

We also had visitor over the weekend! This little guy hung out under our porch light for a few nights, catching bugs I assume. (If you look really closely in the first photograph, you can see a little something hanging out of his mouth. Mmm.) I hope to catch some more photos of him again, if he's around.

I just love the patterns on his bumpy skin. And those golden eyes!

Hope your week is off to a good start : )

P.S!!! I have still been listing lots of new stuff in the shop that I haven't posted on here! Please stop by and check it out!