Greetings from the other side of Artist/Gallery boot camp!  In case you're wondering where I've been for the last 3 days, I have been:

-Dismantling my house (which includes moving furniture, putting tables and chairs in the garage and generally turning the house into an art gallery);

-Removing the (mass-produced) art from our walls;

-Patching and painting;

-Placing (singly-produced) beautiful works of art by Dan's sister-in-law, Cindy on the walls of our newly gallery-ized home;

-Shopping for food, drink, poster putty (more about poster putty later), nylon thread, unidentified decorative vegetation (more about that later too) a laser level and Ook picture hangers;

-Hosting an Art Salon (and our first party since the completion of the Great Landscaping Project of 2007);

-Collapsing in a heap.

It's been busy around here, that's for sure.  I no longer need to marvel at how Cindy stays so trim...she's worked my butt off (well, gotten a good start on it anyway) the past week.  The results were wonderful.  We had a successful salon--Cindy sold some of her work, made good connections for potential future sales, had a nice party and learned enough to probably try it again in a year or so.

And Dan and I acquired a new, gorgeous piece of art for our living room called Three There. 

Right now, we're enjoying the BMW Championship while recuperating from our efforts.  I was dead on my feet after the event yesterday and enjoyed a morning of drinking coffee and reading today.

So, poster putty.  Who knew?  On Thursday, Cindy and I went shopping for the various items we'd need to hang her work.  She introduced me to poster putty...we went to 3 different stores before finding the right kind at the hardware store. 

The putty is like a sticky clay and functions to keep art work in place on the wall (as an assistant to the nail, not as a substitute).  We used it to hang all of Cindy's art and to secure a pesky print that keeps creeping off kilter on our living room wall. 

It's great because you can easily remove it,  it doesn't stain the walls and it's extremely useful in hanging things.  I can see myself using it in place of push pins or tiny nails in my office.

The unidentified vegetable matter was purchased as a decorative leaf (some sort of cabbage with purple, ruffled leaves...Dean should know the name...he used to be a produce manager) to put underneath the cheeses and yummy fruits we offered as light refreshment.  It merits mention only because no one at Henry's could figure out what it was so I think I just paid for a head of lettuce.  Quite a pretty head of lettuce, to be sure.

The turnout for the gathering was great.  We had friends from banking days (Cathy Simms and Garrett Bell), local chums Tom and Renee Dobyns, some friends from S&S (Fred and Karen), some acquaintances of Cindy's (Ginny, Sharen, and Betsy), our neighbors, Nicole and Sherman, Dan's friend, Bob, and my mom, Charlene, and her friend, Liliane.  It was a quite convivial gathering and even included an invigorating political discussion with Mom, Nicole, Liliane, and yours truly...turns out that Nicole and Sherman are self-described extreme conservatives who have been bemused by my bumper-stickers.    We discussed presidential candidates (she's for Romney) and I was glad of the research I've done to date on the dems.  I stated that I'm leaning toward Edwards (even tho I still have to check out Obama and Clinton).

All in all, a memorable art salon after a ton of effort over 3 days.  I'm going to upload some photos for all to enjoy.  Oh, and one final note, at one point the guys were all outside...what were they doing?  Using the putting green, of course.  Although, once they figured out that all the women were inside, they quickly headed back in.  No fools, them.

Happy birthday, Dick/Papasan.  That's it from Chez Morefield for now.

Three There

Elaborate Collaboration  What several folks said was the signature piece of the show.

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