The Decatur, IL, Art Guild gave me quite a nice gift...THIRD place award in Jewelry! And, there were 21 other jewelers in this nice art fair. A nice check was sent and I received it today. Thanks so much...

The 2 green ribbon are patron purchase awards, which means the attendees pledge to the art guild that they will buy some piece or pieces of artwork. Then the artists get that money plus a green ribbon. A great system.

A beautiful place for a show!

This past Saturday both Steve, the artist husband, and I had our work at our first one woman/one man show! We set up side by side at the Weldon Springs State Recreational Area, Clinton, IL, at the boat dock. An absolutely beautiful day gave us a wonderfully relaxing show. Neither of us have ever experienced a "relaxing" show, so it was great!
This is our view from inside our booths........Wow! Steve is a leather artist, doing hand-tooled leather pictures...thus his studio name is "Leather Scenes Studio". His website: www.leatherscenes.com.