My Pumpkin with her pumpkin

Happy Halloween! I'm glad to report that Izzy's biopsy came back negative. We added more drugs to help with the arthritis and she seems so much more comfortable. Thanks to Dr. Gaspar, she is a very sensitive vet who also does acupuncture on dogs and cats. We see her at Roscoe Village Animal Hospital where Izzy also sees Dr. Rovner, he is on the board of Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation and was treating all the fosters when we were first got Alice as a pup...we were very impressed with his attentiveness and knowledge and immediately switched Izzy and Oliver to his office. Of course Alice is the only one who likes going there...! She's the only pet I've ever had that likes to go to the vet, but she is happy anywhere she can get attention.

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and Alice too (on the left)...like the upside down head?

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Open Studio Preview...a day late!

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The Open Studio Sale was a great success and lots of fun. I think I'm going to take advantage of all my hard work setting it up and have a few Open Studio days in November as well. My next show out of the studio is the One of a Kind Show & Sale December 4-7. I will dismantle a few things so I can continue to work but for the most part things can remain set-up, and it's so nice to work in a tidy environment!

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Setting up shop...

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Love these in my baby blue stairwell..(thanks Kate, I miss you!)...Just hung work on every possible surface for my

Open Studio Sale

on Sunday. I'm exhausted but I do love hanging - it's like putting a puzzle together. Rich is going to work on some indirect lighting for me tomorrow, the flourescent lights create a lot of glare on my varnished pieces. Still need to do some cleaning, pricing etc...lots of sale tags! I found this painting stashed away, circa 1999. I used to try to stretch my own canvas but was never very good at it, this piece ended up a trapezoid and never sold. Maybe I'll offer it as a door prize!

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I'll share more photos of my gussied up studio once we finish up tomorrow as well as a blog give away...wow, how weird are her pupils? Maybe that's why it never sold - Sweet dreams!

Freshly Fired!

Here are some fun new pieces that were waiting for me when I got to

Lill Street Art Center

for my clay class tonight, all intact with the exception of some loose wheels I forgot to glaze for the truck...

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Perro de clay    Terra Cotta with Glaze #9!

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"Cee-ment Truck"     Terra Cotta with Undgerglazes

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And I'm happy to report I made a new 2 piece sculpture this evening...a sugar bowl!  So perhaps I'll make a companion creamer next week...stay tuned.

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Mark Your Calendar!

Please mark your calendars: If you are in the Chicago area the weekend of October 25-26th, I hope you will come by for my Open Studio Sale! There will be lots of good deals to be had as I clear out old inventory to make room for new paintings. The official sale is on Sunday the 26th but I am open for appointments on the 25th. For those of you who can only visit remotely I will be posting exclusive sale items available on my blog over the next few weeks.

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Scenes From Louisville...

Old Louisville, gorgeous homes and Victorian Architecture:

These houses were right across from my booth...

Stay tuned...later this week I'll be introducing some artists that exhibited with me at the St. James Court 4th Street Art Festival. We still have to unload the truck...we got home very late last night. Lazy day - slept in, walked the dogs - Izzy is doing really well! : ) did some paper work and have clay class in a few hours...think I might be making some trucks again, inspired by the road trip. Hope you had a good Monday!

Illustration Friday: Packed

Illustration Friday Word: PACKED
This is a portion of a sketch that I did last year chronicling my big move to Chicago in 1990..all packed up and scared to death, but ready for Adventure! See the full Sketch and read the post here.

See what's on my easel....

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I've been thinking a lot about pink and red together lately...and it's been a long time since I've done any still life paintings, if I can call it that - this one was pulled from my imagination.

Finished! 10/01/08

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