When I set out to make my new website, I also set out to make a new blog. I was very excited about the idea of a new blog, as I am an epic blog reader myself. I view my new blog as a catchall for all things things that interest me, and what interest me is making. While I view myself as an artist, I mostly view myself as a maker. I love making things, be it in the studio, in the kitchen, or in the garden.
While I do not claim to have anything to do with making seeds, I do consider gardening a process of making. You are taking a little seed and turning it into something extraordinary. In my garden right now I have many things growing but today I would like to focus on la San Marzano tomatoes. For some of you, light bulbs might be going off in your heads right now thinking I have heard of that name before, but where? San Marzano tomatoes are used by any pizza or Italian place that are worth their weight. (Yes, Punch Pizza does use them, hmm yum Punch Pizza) The reason San Marano tomatoes are so prized is they have very little seeds and pulp and are mostly just yummy tomato meat. The are most commonly grown in the Naples region of Italy.
This year I plan on canning lots of tomatoes for the long winter season. I even plan on showing you how! But not yet, as this yield below is all I have at the moment from my 5 San Marzano plants and well when you can you should have a lot because well canning can be quite the wonderful and time consuming process.
Besides playing in the jardin, I have been busy working on new designs for Powderhorn Art Fair this weekend. So I got busy on my little stash of wonderful antiquities from the french flea market. This collection of necklaces is simple yet fun and edgy. I really wanted the metal stampings to be the showcase piece as they have developed such a wonderful patina.
1970′s metal gun stamping, with tons of little filigree design on the gun. Then large copper 1970′s chain with filigree designs on the links.
Copper stamping of a leaf art noveau design, adorned with tiny smoky quartz briolettes.
Super fun 1980′s brass stampings all adorned with vintage french Lucite beads.
While making pieces for powderhorn art fair, I have also started planning and sketching pieces I will be showing at this months RAW Minneapolis showcase. I attended the RAW Showcase last month and had a great time. It was part music concert, part runway show, part visual art show all in one amazing event. The showcase I am going to be in Fusion is going to have TWO fashion shows, even better.
To attend Raw at the fine line, you do have to buy a ticket, but they are very reasonable priced at $10 dollars. When was the last time you got to see a fashion show and music show for ten dollars I ask. You can buy a ticket right here. Just make sure my name is selected, because you really want to support me, because with out your support I could not do what I do.
Hope to see you this weekend at the powderhorn art fair, it is going to be gorgeous.
