Vacation Over.....work load looming

We had a terrific time on our short jaunt to Northern California.....  it has been 3 years since our last visit ...and it is always so great seeing old friends and family again.  Grass Valley is a place where we lived on and off for over 16 years....charming Gold Rush Sierra Foothill town....but like everywhere..it grows bigger and gets more crowded...I miss the days of the laid back Hippy Retreat feel.... now the word Yuppy comes to mind....still lovely but I relate less to the inhabitants these days....  One of the reasons for going also was to see one of my all time favorite 'Heros' of the music/movement world  in concert....Joan Baez!!  She was over the top fantastic....lovely, moving worth all my years of waiting to see her in person... it was a lovely small venue , close enough to see very well.....she encouraged the audience to sing along to a few songs...and sing we did....Loudly and Proudly....now I can say I sang with Joan Baez...tee hee! 

We visited you pick farms, living in the desert you really appreciate fresh fruits and veggies, of course we visited a few wineries and 'tested' the wares, buy a few bottles of the most delicious ones....YUM! 
Mainly this was a very relaxing visit, good talks...good food and wine....concert and reminiscing tour....  but, as much fun as we had....there is no place like home (clicking my heels together 3 times while saying that)  Yes, back to our heat, now humidity too, sunny blue skies....now...back to work.

Little tiny doll voices are calling my name .....I must follow.....

Later....

Stormy Weather....but not enough to get wet....

Morning....

The early morning desert is dark and gray, with heavy clouds hanging low , little wind and a coolest we are not familiar with during this time of the year....all of this drama...yet not a single drop of rain...UGH!  I will not despair as the day is young and we still may get a few 'spits' by days end....keeping fingers crossed...

Today is a good day to clean and reorganize the studio....started yesterday late, and by moving a few boxes I have already 'found' a few things that have been lost over the last year (tells you how often I organize) ....I do like a small sense of kayos around me, a feeling that something is about to happen, rather than the doctors waiting room tidy clean feel...that freaks me out just a tad...  but I have gone from organized kayos to Mayhem overload... I mean, it is insane.  And why you may well ask...well...I will tell you...(and I do have a pretty good excuse)...my 'our' life has been in a bit of an upheaval lately ...Our beloved dog passed recently, my mother before that, my only sister is moving to Texas and it seems whatever creative energies I have left have been sucked up by the Facebook Monster....Time melts away and with it...creative juices .....therefore, my desire to be at one with artistic creation  is well...basically...*POOF* .... So I got myself away from FACEBOOK...didn't even say goodbye, leave a light on ..but I did close the door....DAMN, should have locked it....!! oh well....  Now I am back over to my very neglected blog ...from where I started and things are once again beginning to feel right....so back to the studio.....clean, clean, clean ...organize ,organize, organize, ..and then...back to work for me....Hello Old friend....!!!

Later,
Jodi

Newest Piece

See....I can't stay away too long...two posts in one day...ZOWIE!!  Lovely hearing from you CaseyMini ....

Anyway...mostly these past few months we have been working on commissions ...I so enjoy those...We have not sold things on EBAY but only 2-3 times this whole year.... but starting up again soon...I feel the need to make more 1:12th scale miniature Witches.....

Anyway...this was a commission to do Harry Potter playing Quidditch , flying near the Griffindor Tower trying to catch the 'snitch'.

The Tower is hall scaled wood with bolts....then covered with hand sewn and painted fabric... All his Quidditch padding is leather hand sewn and glued....glasses brass, painted....his broom is hand carved from wood and brass foot holds added.... A fun fun piece to do for a wonderful collector.  Next Up...Ron on the Wizard Chess Board riding the giant Knight (horse) .....

Thanks for taking a peek....

 

Hello Out There ...

Hi De HOOOOOO Everyone...

Just a short note to you all....first off...I have missed you.....second...I am off of FACEBOOK, having said that ...I feel surprisingly well,  no shaking, no jitters no twitches of any kind just a small since of freedom, rather nice actually.  F.B. had become such a big part of my life for sooooooo long....spending countless hours making up artwork to post, days searching for just the right thing to post (pictures and words), just under a gabillion emails in my box each day , and then there was that virus/malware thing that I KNOW I got from F.B.  ..only have heard about them in the past ...but they came alive in my life and computer....so very long sordid story shortened ....I decided to step away.  I KNOW I KNOW I have done this before.... and gone back...but...this time feels different...Possibly in 6 months when the weather is cold outside and I am sniffing and boo-hoo'ing over my hot coffee I might drag myself back...but I think not at this point...been there done that kinda thing.  I have always prided myself on being 'different' from everyone else (at least a little) ...never dancing to the same tune as everyone else ...(I like a more upbeat jazzy little number anyway)  ...and I was beginning to feel like I was sent on a mission and not being myself any longer....don't get me wrong...I ADORE the people I met there... and will miss them terribly...so those of you still on facebook and also here in Bloglandia...if you see me now..."HI"  ....good to see you...and if you know of others that might be saying "What the Hell happened to Jodi"??? on F.B.  please let them know I will be posting words and pictures of new art and things I find and make over here now ..... I seem to be a lot more free with thoughts and words here...so hold onto your hats....this could get interesting.

So that's it from my corner of Bloglandia  ....alive and kicking in another part of cyber space....

Oh just in case you forgot who I was...... here I am.....

Hugs to all  Jodi