Still time to have one shipped to your friend or yourself as a holiday gift! 
Or if you want to do time payments, I can arrange that too. Email me directly if you need help with that.
Cheers!
I bought an Apple iPod Touch about a month ago and keep learning about new apps for it. I was thrilled to find that WordPress has one, which is where this blog is hosted. This means I can now write new blog entries “on the go”!!! My work life has changed a lot since I retired from graphic design and I need my laptop less and less. And I am already in love with doing everything from my so-portable iPod!!
I can take photos and send them to this blog along with my news. Maybe I will write more blog entries now too…
Ski season starts for us next week and I start my volunteer job at Beaver Creek ski area on Thanksgiving. We are looking forward to meeting other “locals” through the program and building a new social life.
On the art front: I’m all over the place with different projects but not working too hard on any one thing. I have 2 custom glazed china commissions promised this month. I’ve been working on a new oil painting of a scene I shot in Cornwall. I’m experimenting with painting a Roundabout resin in oils. I have been fooling around with some clay hand-building of some sculptures. (Not of horses!) I am hoping for word of the Roundie china molds soon. I feel like I don’t want to glaze anything much at the moment so I think perhaps I am waiting for Roundie.
Well, thanks for reading my test of my first via-iPod entry!
Here is a test photo. It is from our vacation to the Florida Keys last week (and the only photo on my pod at the moment).
After 20 years in Boulder, Paul and I are moving to our dream retirement lifestyle in a new house near the skiing in Vail, Colorado. That’s about 2 1/2 hours west of Boulder, on the other side of the Colorado Rockies.
Here is the hot tub on the lower level patio, just steps away from where my new studio will be. How nice for when I am in need of some creativity rejuvenation.
And here is the big view from that hot tub…
Mr. Frugal Paul is already grumbling about the electricity bills for keeping that thing going, but I’m not letting him turn it off!!
We close on our new house the week of Sept 22nd. From now I am officially unable to do any work on china glazing or other horse-art related stuff, because my studio is completely packed up. I will be online through the week of the move but might be spotty once until we get the cable modem set up in the new house.
I won’t be up and working until I set up the new studio space and get the garage wired for Fido The Kiln. Could be mid-October before I unpack all the boxes.
I’d sure like to have a house warming party before the snow flies though!
Well, here’s to changing up one’s life in a big way!
(Like, us dropping everything and spending a year living in England in 2009-10 wasn’t enough excitement for awhile..?? I guess not!)
Cheers,
Karen
Here’s that bone china “Caprice” custom glazed to black tobiano that I mentioned the other day. This is a piece that has been floating around the studio awhile, partially finished as another color I didn’t like. The body is perfectly good and there aren’t going to be any more Caprices in bone china made, so I finished it as a solid black tobiano the way you see here.
There are only 7 Caprices finished in custom glaze colors to date. That’s not very many. In fact for various reasons the Caprice china edition total is the smallest of all the sculptures I’ve released in ceramic. It was also my first!
I’d like to get $550.00 usa postage paid for this guy. He is cmg Caprice #7. I do ship overseas and ‘d just split the postage cost. I can extend short time payments, like take 60 days to pay in full. But I will give preference to someone who can pay in full.
By the way, I did sell the chestnut Caprice offered the other day!
We just signed a contract to buy a house up in the mountains west of Vail, Colorado, which means we are going to sell our house in Boulder after 20 years here, and move to Vail! All very exciting, but first we have to do the move. I’ve been slowly packing up the studio and finishing up a few glazing projects before I lose access to the kiln for a few weeks in early October. And taking a good hard look at my collection. I’ve decided to do a bit of collection-thinning to have a few less things to pack and move. Here’s the first one.
This is custom glazed bone china “Caprice”, numbered 2, from my own collection. It was glazed in 2006, one of the first ones I finished. It should have remained with me… until I took this piece to a show and it tipped over onto the left ear when I was trying to adjust a saddle. The ear broke off in an odd way; the broken piece extended down towards the eye. I have repaired and retouched it, but since I’m a fussy purist collector I will suffer no broken pieces among my “keepers”. Other than the repaired/retouched left ear the piece is mint and gorgeous. I am asking $450.00 US postage paid. Send me an email if interested, thanks!
I will have several other nice pieces coming up this week at good prices, including a new bone china “Caprice” in black tobiano pinto, and a dappled grey bone china “Streetwise” that has a repaired leg.
