I am well hung!

Yesterday I drove to Watchung and after going around a traffic circle about 4 times I found the Watchung Arts Center . It's a pretty building that was an old school house.
I feel privileged to be part of a group of serious artists, making art that I respect and enjoy.


Quilts on the floor.

Lunch break!

I may have to give my Best of Show Award to this work by Diane Savona. It's very large and very beautiful. It seems like an angel watching over the show.

That's my humble work on the left. So far, people don't see that there is a jig saw puzzle in the middle of the piece. This is puzzling to me!

I'm in an art show this Sunday!

I guess I would rather play Wordtwist and post on Maplewood Online then blog.
They say that whatever you do on New Year's Day is what you will do that for the rest of the year, so maybe I'll blog a little more this year! (I also did 20 sit ups in the hopes that this superstition is really true)!
This is a great bunch of artists and I am truly privileged to have the opportunity to meet with them for inspiration and critics.
I hope you can come to the opening this Sunday, January 4th, 1 to 4 p.m., Watchung Arts Center

Lipstick on a Middle-Aged Mother Artist

Driving in my car, i heard Elizabeth Hurley on the radio talking about how i could get lipstick and a bag FREE with a purchase of $27.50 and for "just a little bit more" (another $27.50 to be exact) i could get even more FREE lipstick! I didn't exactly do a U-turn, but I did head over to the mall the next day. I examined the colors, but I wasn't thrilled with the bag and didn't see any use for it. I tried on some perfume and tried to decide what my purchase would be -- maybe some lipstick to get the free lipstick. Luckily, my daughter wanted to hurry on over to Build-a-Bear to think about a birthday bear for herself, so i tore myself away, promising to come back.

A few stores later and I stopped in my tracks. What? why did I want lipstick so much? I already have some I don't use very often and i can always pick up a few tubes in the drug store, what was going on? (I bet you know where this is going)!

I wanted lipstick so much cuz I have been hearing the word so often in the media! Talk about impressionable minds. Sheesh!

Embracing My Inner Flashlessness

I think I mentioned that the flash doesn't work on my camera. At the last meeting with the Studio Six art quilters, Randy Keenan mentioned that you should move your camera around and let things be blurry. So i am embracing being unfocused (this is also a metaphor for my life, not just my photography), and will now show the photos of my parents' house which did not
"come out right."

It's about time! and it's not perfect...

but i finally published a website. Any feedback appreciated. I want it to be whimsical and artistic, but professional and competent looking as well.
Kristen's Website

My Parent's House

I love my parent's house. They have great colors, cool collections and no clutter! The flash on my camera is broken, so I only have a few photos that came out. Here's the fish pond my dad built:

Wallpaper handpainted by Polly Cook

Kitchen window:

I aspire to grow up to be like my parents! i wish more photos had turned out. I wish i had a fancier camera since i fancy myself a photographer.

Like a Virgin

Wow, I haven't written in awhile. It's almost like starting a whole new blog.

I promise to do better.
We just flew back from Texarkana, Texas.

I read Lonesome Dove on the way down. I want to read some other books by Larry McMurtry.

Here are my two children, and my sister's son, Gabe