AzureGrackle

I'm doing a three day holiday craft show at the end of next week (ArtSpace Maynard) and it was recommended that artists with 2D works also have some smaller gift items for sale as well. So as a frequent buyer of tree ornaments, I thought "of course". Why do my great ideas always turn out to be exponentially more complicated than I think they will be?

Tonight I printed 86 little prints, roughly 2" x 3" each, by hand. Me and my trusty spoon on the living room floor rubbing candles, pine trees and stars into existence on background texture prints that I prepared earlier in the week. My wrist hurts.

OrnamentFest 2007 will start in earnest on Tuesday when I can use my Dad's workshop. I have some 1/8" thick pieces of maple, mahogany and cherry that I have to cut (table saw, eeep!) into smaller pieces. Then sand the edges, glue the prints in place. Once the glue is dry, I'll drill a hole in the top then varnish each one. I want to do two coats with a steel wool buff in between. Yes I am nuts. And yet, I am my father's daughter. The master woodworker would have it no other way.

Finally I have some organza ribbon to thread through the hole and tie off so they can hang ever-so-beautifully on a blue spruce or knotty pine, or whatever your tree of choice may be.

Coming soon to an Etsy store near you.