I am dusting off the shelves in the Green Swamp Gallery, and adding a line of pendants, and ornaments to my shop this week. As I write, the wood fire is being unloaded, and I am trying to figure out how to get my shoes and coat and car keys without waking the sleeping dogs.  Yeah I know it is impossible. They can hear me thinking about getting up and going!  Here are some snap shots that I took at the kiln site. It was a very nice load. The little rabbit pitcher was made with mid fire white clay from Continental Clay, and it was fired to well over cone 10 in this firing. The vase looking pieces below, are actually lamp bases that were special ordered. 

Catching up!

What happened to April?  I am putting in a late night after playing the monthly jam session at Kanabec History Center in Mora.  This is a regular event held on the third Saturday of every month year round.

Paul was in St. Peter Friday installing a show with  Bill Gossman titled "The Story, so Far"  The show runs through June 13th in the Moline Gallery  at the Arts Center of St. Peter.
Bill has also invited Paul to participate again this year in the Willmar area Studio Hop in June more information can be found here at their website http://studiohop.wordpress.com/

July will find us in Brainerd MN http://www.brainerdcommunityaction.org/arts_in_the_park.html
My annual favorite is the Stockholm Art Festival  http://www.stockholmartfair.org/index.html
This show is in it's 37th year in a beautiful location on Lake Pepin.

All of the shows we are doing this summer are put on by other artists, except for Brainerd.  Our plans for our own festival, Sticks and Stones on September 24,25, 26 are coming together nicely.  We have bookedhttp://www.monroecrossing.com/reviews.html to appear Sunday and Brian Wicklund   http://www.brianwicklund.com/ and his band will perform on Saturday night. We have a full two days of music and entertainment lined up including the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers http://www.wildgoosechasecloggers.org/

Well I hope this catches me up for awhile, the garden is underway, and we are reclaiming parts of the yard from the encroaching forest.  I have twelve chicks that I am raising and some baby bunnies in the rabbitry, so I have  a lot on my plate!