Time again for soap!

My favorite soap,
originally uploaded by polyartgirl.

I've started making soap again. Between these last three days I've made: Pachouli Clove, Lavender mint, Orange chocolate chunk, Chocolate Mint, Milk and Honey, Lime and salt (in the bath bar), and a few sore muscles massage bars...what's next?!

sweet old salve

sweet old salve,
originally uploaded by polyartgirl.

This is something I've been meaning to make since xmas. Lavender salve! It's beautiful and smells divine...

Sweet little two ounce bottles of good sleep and soft skin!!

This is a grouping of all the work we pulled out

This is a grouping of all the work we pulled out,
originally uploaded by polyartgirl.

A picture perfect salt firing...

glazed pottery and lots of other pictures here

busier by the minute...

Here's Mt Blanca and our little valley this morning:



And one of the pots I threw today :)

MORE MUD!!!!!

This one is my favorite:

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Images

Pictures from our adventure in brick hauling...really just a few of my favorite images from the old building/machinery. I took almost 100...here's a tiny taste (some of my favorite and reoccuring themes).













We hauled lots of bricks. More than likely will do it again next weekend.

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Love the tired after working hard. We ordered Chinese food... I spent lots of time scrubing the tub and showering just so I could take a two hour bath. This really is the good life.

This is what I did today:

I must...

get to the college and play on the wheel again. I have a couple of lightswitch plates that I'm working on. I have one or two left from this summer. Most of them sold, but I guess I need to start working on inventory now so summer isn't a killer this time.


These sold like crazy.


I was playing with glass as well. Here's what I did last summer:

They say: Queen, Fisherman, and Hot. I only sold one of these...not quite unique enough, I think...I stopped doing the etched glass for a while, and now I have a large shelf of glass just waiting to be played with and modified. I want to melt it...and then etch it...

traffic exchanges

These have been a fun way to find new sites and generate traffic to my site. You're probably surfing here using one of these methods, but if not, I recommend trying them out. Mulitple accts = more traffic and more sites to see faster...

My favorite exchange is Blog Explosion.

There's a link to blog clicker on the right...it's a lot like blog explosion with some of the same users.

This one just started up in January and has only a 15 second wait time: Traffic Pods.

One more that I use is Haunted Clicks.

That's all for now...

Our opening went well today.

The opening for The Art Thing's "Emergiendo" show went very well. There was a good turn-out of people, as well as a wonderful layout of food. I brought some crumbly chocolate cake rolls and tiny cheesecake cups. Unfortunately, I forgot my digital camera, so I'll be begging pictures from my friends who went.

This evening I'm updating my website: Polyartgirl.Net. I have big ideas.

(I'm always looking for an honest and helpful critique.)

Throwing again...

I spent several hours playing in the mud today...throwing for the first time in years. After making a mess, destroying most of what I made, and trying to remember what the hell I'm doing, I ended up with a few bowls that will be handled into cups soon.

In the upper left you can barely see the little red vase.

The Art Thing: Emergiendo

Our art group is finally having our first show. After showing in various places for the past year with other artists or in open settings. We're beginning with three pieces each, as well as a portrait of another of the artists. It'll be fun to see what people get done.

These are four new framed photos heading off to the gallery today:



Two van dyke prints on handmade cotton rag paper, and two fiber darkroom prints. Better photos to follow...

Cafe Press shop launched...

There, after being a member for two years, it's finally started: Polyartgirl's Shop | CafePress. I have so much more that I can put inside, but I'm always a bit nervous about sharing my work. A few pieces that I haven't shown much/shared anywhere much, like this one:

and this one:


I'll update more this afternoon...

Studio work...

This is a painting I'm doing for and of my online friend Dana:





I'll finish it one of these days...it's just taken a long time to try to paint somebody that I'm getting to know. It's growing with our friendship. At first it was too shallow, but now I like it much more than I did, though it's still too static.

The Art Thing project

Our group, The Art Thing, is currently working on a project in that we do a portrait of another person in the group. I'm not sure I like the way that we chose who we are going to do, but this is the photo that I'm working from.



I may do a van dyke print. I've already created a negative to work from. I'm also thinking that a van dyke printed and then maybe do some painting on the photo might be fun. I've yet to try to hand-color a photo.

I just need about 12 more hours in each of my days...that would be good.

Another Bound Painting

This painting is almost finished. I'll post an up to date picture this evening.



I've been discussing the possibility of leaving her unbound. It's much more uncomfortable. An offering, a willingness that the "vows" painting doesn't quite imply.

A new beginning

Finally starting a companion to go with my website at Polyartgirl.Net. I'll begin posting images as soon as I can get home and start taking them.

Here's a sampling from my site:


"This is the first to be shown in a series of paintings dealing with the bondage of marriage. I believe that we all choose the bondage in our lives, from the jobs that we accept to the people that we marry."