I will admit, right here, front and center that there are things about 1st shift that I like. More opportunity to see friends is the one that sticks out most. However yesterday I found or re-found another.
Long, long ago, I used to frequent the first Thursday art walk. Occasionally alone, mostly with either Clair or Elizabeth and a couple times with Katherine or Joy when her husband Steven had an exhibit up.
Last night I went to the first Thursday art walk, I have not been to it in years. Granted I mostly went to one exhibit, the lost works exhibit because Char had 30 paintings in it. In fact fifty artists in all each had 30 paintings they had done in 30 days.
I knew this art would be for sale and I knew the openings were just Wednesday (first Thursday eve so to speak), Thursday and then this Saturday. What I didn’t realize was that people could be and would be buying them yesterday. As in taking them off the wall right in front of you as you are looking at the pieces.
Clearly there were people who are more used to this venue. I got there five minutes into the event, or when the doors were supposed to open and was so surprised to find the place full of people and pieces of art coming off the walls. One man walking around with a stack of paintings, he had to have had at lease 30 in his arms. They all sell for forty bucks each and eventually I saw him sit down to sort through them. The unfortunate thing is the rest of us didn’t get to see the ones in his stack, even if he didn’t end up buying them. You can even see the empty spots already in my cell phone pictures here of one of the displays. There was no way to get a photo of the magnitude of these paintings or the people here. I snapped these two because in some cosmic meeting there was all of a sudden no one standing in my way.
There were lots of very cool paintings and I liked that they didn’t have them separated by artists. I was also bummed that I couldn’t see all of Chars (or what was left of them) in one fell swoop. But it does make for a more interesting display.
After the art walk I went home to make “sample” sugar cookies for possibly my 1st bona-fide order under the business. The problem with rolled sugar cookies is the amount of time they take. Making the dough is no problem. But it has to be cold to roll it out. I left it in the fridge for an hour and rolled out a small amount to cut a few cookies. It wasn’t long enough and I couldn’t pull the dough apart. So back in the fridge they went for another 15 minutes and then onto a baking sheet. I only baked a few and then had to wait for them to cool and made some icing for them while they cooled. These are so labor intensive. They are listed on my price sheet at more than other cookies and under the holiday section. I will be happy if I get the order because really, I have half the dough made already. But if I don’t, that will be ok also.
Since I had to run out for butter, I also picked up yarn….five sciens of pink. Lets see if I can get a blanket done in the next two days, you know in between painting the ceiling at the studio tonight and removing my hoses from the house for winter because, hello, its friggen freezing out there. If not, I will finish if off for someone else.
