In Joy Designed

Madison And NYC BUST craftaculars

Wow! Back home from the NYC BUST craftacular (no pics but on my mom's cell camera, poo) and the Madison WI. glitter workshop craftacular at the Masonic center.

Here I am in madison!

The shows were both fun in their ways - the small show was especially nice because I was able to drive down which feels more organized than hauling everything from MN to NYC on amtrak (ack) and overnighting supplies at the last minute to my mom's. I don't know how some people do it, but I plan to challenge myself this year and do the show circuit as hard as I can.

I really have wonderful good things to say about Naomi's show in WI. It's a great venue, a great town, an easy and fun crowd, and really REALLY well organized and responsive. I'd do this show again in a heartbeat.

BUST is an amazing show. They really bring the people. It's a little easier to be lost in a shuffle of 200 vendors and I don't really feel I got to know anyone. But I liked the cash a lot, and I would also do this one again. If I had it to do over I'd be more aggressive about mail list signups (ie. remember to have them, ha!) and have more midrange items.

Naventin jewelry

Every once in a while, there's something on Etsy that just suckerpunches me with its beauty.

 

Dios Mio! Naventin Jewelry is a Barcelona-based outfit with a lean, edited-down, superb range of modernist metalsmithing.

In other news, there's not much to report. I've been suffering from election cycle fever, and Mr. Enso managed to pull me away from the cat in the hat visage and soothing drone of David Gergen long enough to get me out onto the Missisippi for some lazy flatwater canoeing off Grey Cloud Island. It was an utterly perfect day in every way, except for a comical soaked pant leg.

Literary Giggle

http://wondermark.blogspot.com/2008/05/410-in-which-perhaps-plums-are-eaten.html