Sitting here in the Calgary airport awaiting my flight to the UK, I’ve been browsing the websites of some of the folks who RSVP’d for next Friday’s Meet and Greet at Ray Stitch (see the sidebar at right for details). Pui Yee Cheung has a nice design portfolio and this rainbow fits our weather theme of issue #13. This rainbow invite, below, is quite clever.
See you on the other side of the ocean!
Thanks to everyone who came to visit. It was heartening to see such a nice turnout since it has been a while since I’ve been able to put so much effort into an event. (Click the photo above to see more images in Flickr.)
Our silver-lined clouds offered these UPPERCASE pots of gold as prizes. I found some nice acrylic wedding favour boxes and filled each with a selection of golden beads, sequins, pins and papers.
These gold seals are from an office supply company and I used my custom embossing seal. It pays to be a packrat, since I had these gold stickers lying around for years.
Eleanor and I were quite happy with how the clouds turned out! Here’s Eleanor standing in for a test shot.
Lately I’ve been dressing to match issue #13’s colour scheme… actually, I think it might be the other way around… For those with keen memories, you might recall the polka dot umbrella featured in issue #1.
I have lots of photos to edit from Thursday’s Lucky 13 party, but I wanted to make this video first. Having this souvenir makes all the work of organizing and decorating worthwhile. Sometimes I only have eyes for my little guy.
The party decor is being set up! Inspired by the cover, we have paper pouf clouds and silver streamer rain.
These are just instagram pics; I look forward to sharing more photos later.
We’re open from 6pm – 9pm. All ages welcome for bingo, cupcakes and photobooth fun. And pot of gold prizes!
Art Central, corner of 7th Avenue SW and Centre Street, kitty corner from the Hyatt Hotel and at the Centre Street LRT stop. Hop on over…
Instagram and peep by Jeanee Duval
I’ve just uploaded a clickable version of the peeps from the current issue. They’re fun to read and provide lots of interesting links! Submit your peep for issue #14 right here.
Ayumi provided me with so many good images; I wish I could have published them all with the article. Here are some that you won’t find in the pages of issue #13.
Her woodstacks are seasonal works of art!
Ayumi Horie‘s home and studio are located in a small church in Cottekill, New York. Since our article was written, Ayumi has decided to sell the property so that she can move closer to family.
“I’ve had the church for ten years and have loved every minute of it, from the beginning renovations when I would find caches of walnuts in the walls and bats in the belfry to the spiffed up sanctuary it is now. I can’t say enough great things about the New York community either with so many forward-thinking creative people in the area. Ideally, someone community-minded will carry on the church’s art tradition (the owner before me as an artist as well), so I’m putting it out there in hopes that by making a website devoted to the church, the perfect steward to the church will find it and fall in love.”
To see more photos of this incredible home, click here.
Some of the images of the church that Ayumi shared with us for the article:
Thank you, Ayumi, for sharing your work and home with us. We hope that you find a buyer as sympathetic to this special place as you have been.
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