Quirk: Gallery Submissions in Process

So I finally got back down to 2nd April Galerie (209 6th St. NW, Canton, Ohio 44702) to pick up my previous submissions that had not sold and drop off the three completed quirky-quilted journals that I had lying around, and a new quirky-quilted-and-fabric-collaged tote bag which I can't find any pictures of now, ratzen-fratzen...When to my utter amazement and delight, Brennis Booth, one of the the wonderful people who run the place, suggested I leave all the old quilty journals along with the 3 new ones and the tote bag, but maybe lower the prices. He said people are very interested in them, but when they see the prices they just move on.

"Interested?" I perked. I had not heard the part about lowering the prices at first. All I heard was that people like my stuff. Of COURSE I lowered my prices! Even with all the work, blood, sweat, and tears I had put into each soul-healing morsel of nummy-ness, I decided to drop the prices so that my babies could more possibly find new and loving homes.

The kicker is, I had in my purse, the quilty square below. While Brennis was generously helping me re-price my pieces, I pulled it out and asked him if he had any ideas for a use for it. He suggested I mount it and frame it inside a shadow box. He wants me to make a few more of the sqares and bring them in in shadow boxes to hang in the gallery side of the, uh...gallery. (My journals and totes have been in the gift-shop side of the gallery.)

"Oh my!" says I. Yes, yes, yes! what a great idea. I must feel so guilty about sewing and art-ing all the time instead of keeping house, that my syuff is almost never made as just something to look at or hang on the wall. It's almost always made into a "useful" thing like ajournal or a tote bag or a dolly. I don't know if you can imagine how validated I feel to know that something I make is going to just hang there and look pretty. Whether it sells or not isn't the issue. That it's appreciated enough to hang in public in an actual gallery has me walking on air.

The above is the square I showed Brennis. It's about 9" x9".

And this one is a next one I am making for the galley. It's not all the way stitched yet. The background fabric is an old curtain that I got at the Hartville Flea Market last weekend. To die for, no?