I really look forward to this show every year, it's always so relaxing + peaceful. With studio tours you don't have the set-up + weather worries, it's a more comfortable setting. So far there have been more visitors than I have seen in the 2 previous years I have been a guest artist at Claudia's studio, which means there were more people willing to brave the twisting, turning one-lane roads. I really cannot emphasise the off the beaten path part enough.
My books on display with Claudia's paper in the gallery room
A few weeks ago I got an e-mail from Erin @ Operation Paper Cut + Yellow Canoe, saying that she was surprising her husband with a trip to The Smokey Mountains for their 1 year wedding ann. + their drive home coincided with the studio tour! I was really excited because she's a book binder + printer + I was one of my first blog friends. Now she's the first blog friend I have met in real life. I wish our time was not so short, but they had a 10 hour drive back home to Wisconsin.Thank you Erin + Joe for coming by, it really meant a lot to me. And thank you Tonya for coming by with your snazzy Coach shoes~ don't take them off around me because I might slip them on my feet + walk away with them!
More to come from day 2
6 comments:
This just looks like the perfect show - a nice and relaxed environment. Your displayed looked lovely too.
Off the beaten path is always, always preferable... xo
how I'd love to have visited! it sounds like it went really well. x
Sounds like a perfect way to spend a weekend :) How fun to have met Erin and her husband. You two look so cute~
Yay! We had fun stopping by! Hopefully we'll see each other sometime again and be able to hang out for a longer period of time!
I'm happy for you to have a "home" at Claudia's beautiful studio- I couldn't get over how great it was, I probably brought it up at least once an hour on the way home, hehe.
What an awesome weekend you had! I would have loved to come and see how you make your work. Letterpress is so fascinating! I imagine it's slightly exhausting thoughj...
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