Hello, Facebookers

Rural Pearl now has its own Facebook fan page. This way, my personal account will be just so, and my artist page will be accessible to the public (pictures, updates, and so forth). I have a detailed calender of my upcoming art fairs over there, so please take a looksy, and if you feel like signing on as my fan (why, thank ya’s!) for updates and the like, click here:

Educating Herself Papercutting

Educating HerselfShe had books and such, but rather, she decided to go straight to the source, as she wanted much to be a bird. It all comes in stages, the realization, she realized.

5 inch by 7 inch papercutting with 8 inch by 10 inch matting.

Save the Dates! Art Fairs!

Be on the lookout for the Rural Pearl booth at these 2 upcoming Art Fairs:

***Lawrence Fall Arts & Crafts Festival***
Sunday, September 13, 2009 (begins at 10am)
South Park at 11th and Massachusetts Street
Lawrence, KS

***Cider Days Fall Festival***
Saturday, September 26, 2009 (10am – 6pm)
Sunday, September 27, 2009 (10am – 5pm)
Kansas Expocentre
17th and Topeka Blvd.
Topeka, KS

I’ll post more about these as the dates approach. Hope to see you there!

Perseid Meteor Shower – Aug. 12, 2009

Perseid Meteor Shower Photo - Aug. 12, 2009Shot at 1600 ISO, f/3.5, 30s exposure at 18mm. I was basically hitting the shutter button every minute – 30 seconds exposure, 30 seconds processing time… Much better show than last night in this part of the world. I captured 6 on camera – this was the best shot – the others were pretty faint. And of course, my battery died about 10 minutes before seeing the longest prettiest one of the night which would have been right in the middle of my camera viewing field. Go figure.