Boulder Open Arts Fest Day 2 + Time To Go Home…

by ruralpearl | Jul 23, 2012 | Art Fairs & Art Travels

My Sunday at the arts fest started out with finding this little bird in a flower bed next to my tent. It looked like he was injured — he wasn’t flying, his heart was pounding, and at first he had one leg up in the air (who knows!). I figured if there was anywhere that has services for injured birds, it would be Boulder, so I tried to do some contacting but wasn’t very successful on an early Sunday morning. Within an hour, however, I saw another bird show up and they both hopped out of the flower bed and eventually flew away, so maybe he just hit the tree or something and was in shock and needed some good bird-word to get him going. Whatever… it’s a great story in my head.

All in all, the festival was great, and I’m coming home with a much lighter load than I started with. Thanks so much to all you folks who stopped by – thank you for your purchases, your kind comments, your conversation, etc. Thank you to the weather gods who kept the rain to the west. It was a good time all around.

I’m not totally sure I’m ready to go home yet – I love being out here wherever ‘out here’ is. But it’s nice to have a comfortable place to go home to, for which I’m always thankful. In a few short hours, I’ll be hitting the dusty east-bound trail toward some major heat and drought and reality. Lots of online orders & new retail store stock to get together and ship out this week, plus several commissions and a ton of emails to respond to (sorry if I owe you one – I promise I’ve read yours and I’ll get back asap). Also some major house organizing to do since I sort of tore it up getting ready for these last few shows. And it’ll be good to get myself back out in my running sneakers since I didn’t do much of that in the last few weeks. I also started reading an interesting book a couple days ago called Nature Mysticism by J. Edward Mercer which was written in the early 1900s, so I’m hoping to make some time to plow into that as well. Plus, a little respite from it all with a short, tentative camping/ kayaking/ geode & artifact hunting trip with some adventurous women-folk in a week or so which should yield some new photos & stories.

This has been a really memorable trip that went by way too fast.. Til next time..

Boulder’s Open Arts Fest Day 1

by ruralpearl | Jul 21, 2012 | Art Fairs & Art Travels

Day one of the Open Arts Fest was pretty groovy. I had a great spot underneath a couple trees that shaded me from a full day of sun. I also had a lot of fun doing a demonstration and chatting up my audience. The weather got a little iffy with some thunder, wind and light rain right as I was closing up, but it totally blew over without much of an effect. With the last two weekends of torrential rain, I was really appreciative of sun.. The sky over the flatirons after I left was kinda crazy looking.

One more day and then I head home…

Open Arts Fest in Boulder This Weekend

by ruralpearl | Jul 20, 2012 | Art Fairs & Art Travels

I’m heading over to Boulder to get ready for this weekend’s Open Arts Festival. By getting ready, I mean, taking my soggy tent & side walls out of my car and seeing if I can clean them up from last weekend’s nasty rainstorm since the rain & cooler temps have given way to sun and upper 90s hotness. The weather gods are preparing me to go back to the cauldron of Kansas, I suppose.

I’ll be doing a paper cutting demonstration on the Boulder Court House lawn (1300 block of Pearl Street) from 4:30 – 5:30 on Saturday. Hope to see you there!