Snow in Santa Fe for my birthday

I was so pleased to participate in the 12th Annual Santa Fe Recycled Art Festival. What a talented group of artisans working towards a collective goal of being kind to the planet. Such great stuff - creativity I haven't seen in another show- I fell in love with so many items! Definitely had booth envy and got lots of great ideas for next years show as I WILL definitely be back! Loved Santa Fe, of course - such a great vibe there. Met some awesome people who loved my work and sold lots of stuff - got a commission - Yippeeee. Lots of opportunities to follow up on - I am so grateful. The booth and my art continue to get better and better. What a fun way to celebrate my birthday this year. Oh, and my cow (Moo Love) made the postcard for the promo piece - one of three featured. Yippee again!

I loved playing the violin, why not paint one?

First of all let me say how much fun it was to paint ON a violin!!! I played the violin from 4th grade thru high school and had a great experience as an orchestra geek!!
The Sixth Annual Painted Violin Fundraiser where I hand-painted a violin that will be raffled, auctioned or sold to benefit the Denver Young Artists Orchestra. Following a month-long display at the Rialto Café, my violin will be exhibited throughout the season at Masters Gallery, Clayton Lane Fine Arts, Brushstrokes Studio-Gallery, and eventgallery 910Arts.The fifteen violins featured in this site will be individually raffled during the Painted Violin Gala on Sunday, April 11, 2010 at the Marriot Denver Tech Center, 4900 S. Syracuse Street, Denver. Raffle ticket holders need not be present to win. To see more about this really cool event go to: www.paintedviolin.com

Texas and Vegas

*New Painting - "Riffick the Pig" on tin roof.*************

Traveled to downtown Austin for the annual Pecan St. Festival in September with my hubby and resident side kick Tory. We loved the lakes, trees and colorful characters that surrounded us our entire trip. "Keep Austin Weird" was seen on many t-shirts throughout the fair and my art attracted much attention - I fit right in. I was scheduled to appear on the ABC TV stations morning news to promote the Festival and then got cancelled cause of more important news - what could be more important I ask you!!! We got to eat Wild Boar, drink Texas beer and enjoy some great Texas hospitality with friends made along the way! I only wish I would have had a longhorn painting to sell : ) - I had no idea Texans love football as much as they do. I know now!!

Boulder City, Nevada is a small town just south of Vegas and is a fantastic historic little gem with a great park where they hold really cool art festivals. This is my 2nd time in a Boulder City Art Festival and it was fun to have people remember my art, collectors invite me to dinner and feel the love!! It was windier than a twister in texas though and my tent ended up looking more like a pretzel. I made the best of it in traditional Meg fashion and sold off the lawn for the rest of Sunday. People didn't care apparently cause my sales were better on Sunday!!! Hilarious - I kept telling people I knew I was gonna be in the "Art IN the park" festival but not the "Art ON the park" festival. Looking forward to my next show in MESA! See where to find my art for more details!

Billings and Boulder

The last two shows were super fun too! Billings was in a great park - met some great people and enjoyed some great art purchases. I was kinda sad that this was my last show in Montana but I know I'll be back next summer and add some more cities on the tour. I'd like to do a show in Bozeman and Missoula and then farther north and west. I've heard I didn't even get to see the most beautiful part of Montana - next time!

My hubby met me in Billings and we traveled south together thru Wyoming and then Colorado. I think that was the most beautiful part of the drive - we didn't go on any interstates! Two lane roads thru little towns are the best. We felt like we got to see an IMAX movie every day we were on the road.

We loved Boulder for sure. What's not to love with so much natural beauty wrapped up with a gorgeous downtown (loved Pearl St.) and lots of outdoor activities. We got to go tubing right in town - wow! We stayed with friends and had bbq's and music and lots of laughs. The show was at the 29th street mall outside which was different for me. It was all good though, lots of interest in pet portraits in Boulder which was fantastic! Can't wait to go back.

Back at home in the studio painting and entering shows for the fall. Austin, Texas is the next city at the end of September! Can't wait.

Butte Folk Festival

Butte Montana has great bones and is an awesome historic town. The draw for us was the International Folk Festival which was fantastic, fun and full of great music as you can imagine! I listened to great Chicago blues, rockabily, celtic, mariachi, and great old fashioned rock and roll at an outdoor venue and was right up front dancing of course. We were hits at the farmers mkt. and I sold quite a bit! The right photo is dinner Saturday nite at the M & M (a classic in Butte) which is like 112 years old! The left photo is our combined booth - Heidi and I set up at 3 different places each day and still had a fantastic weekend. We both needed a little r & r after this venue. We got it in Missoula . . . the next stop on the tour!

Butte Montana Folk Festival

Today I am in Bozeman Montana. Last night was a KOA campground with a hot spring right next to it - that was awesome. It was about 45 degrees last night but the airstream was warm and cozy. I love Bozeman and got the most fabulous massage and finally found an internet cafe that works! Yippeeee. 11 days on the road and doing great! We are off to Butte tomorrow morning to set up art and jewelry at a place called Gamers Cafe, then Saturday at the farmers market, the back to Gamers. Should be hilariously interesting indeed. We've printed up flyers to pass out at the Folk Festival, there's suppose to be 40,000 people at the festival so lets hope Gamers is jammin'. On the Montana roads . . . to be continued.

Desert Pearls Elevated Tour

The first show in Livingston Montana on the July 4th weekend was a huge success! I have sold out greeting cards and prints are almost gone. Had a great 3 day trip on the way here. Got to drive thru Zion and Yellowstone. Beautiful country indeed. Having so much fun and wanted to share a few photo's.

Heidi and I had so much fun driving up in the 66 Airstream! Here is a photo of us right outside Zion National Park in Utah. On the left is the view at sunset from our back patio at the house we are staying at outside Livingston, Montana.