Some tchotchies from s friend's art shoppe in my tiny home town. Everything is local and hand made: fishies kitties & party masks made from hollowed out sun dried gourds then painted - each is uniquely original... The red ware stuffs are works in progress - she does classes and provides everything for the casual artist. She's Fab!!
janinekittyb:
ok ok so I am trolling your profile :P haha..... this is so cool!! what are those little round discs used for with the owl and heart on them????? i love them they are so cool and the fox mask?! Brilliant!!!
robertbluesman:
the masks, fishies, and the Cheshire love buddy at the bottom are by local juried artist Kristen Egan. she grows her own strain of gourds and cures them for her art - each is a priceless one-of. I have a few of her fish in my nautical themed bath arranged in a Calder-esque mobile above the tub. the other art is all local, and the fab shop owner Stephanie is my pottery mentor (Mud & Maker) as to the discs they are "Positive Pennies" she sells in the shoppe. they're like $1 each, 1" dia, meant to be an uplift if you reach in your pockets thinking you have nothing but that. each is unique... so the feeling of having a special 'something' when all else fails is meant to be personal. she glazes each batch in different colors, and sometimes throws one in the bag of someone she senses is needing that lift. ...trolling me is of course no issue - says the dude who miraculously evolved from a female objectifier to a lover of every curve, tuck, wrinkle, swell, dimple, fold, personal expression and emotional geometry of all that which is Woman. thanks again for lending your eyes and mind to my scratch-n-dent aisle of reality! hugs