WOW!

This is the coolest thing!  My kickstarter.com project has just passed 50% funding and there are 25 hours to go!  A HUGE thank you going out to:

Kim Scales

Vonda Burke

Clayton

Bekki Fahrer

Tony LaFienza

Dawn Wampler

Joel Wasinger

Jackie Kunkel

Angela Newcomb

& Sara

These dream makers have touched my heart by supporting this project and I have been SO touched by their generous hearts!

And look at this beautiful pair of rainbows from the storm on the 15th.  

I sure had fun taking a break from my work to enjoy these!  I took LOTS of photos that evening!

Have you seen my project yet?  Please surf on over and watch the video.

When I first saw it the rainbow was complete from side to side, then the second rainbow started to shine and the other end of it vanished.  Here's the last photo before it vanished altogether:

And thanks so much!!

Light and Beauty to each of you,

-Carmen Rose

Kickstarter.com Project entitled: "Whole, a broken heart, a vibrant hope."

The Opening

We had the opening reception Friday evening for the start of the "Whole" exhibit. It will be up May and June and will continue to evolve.

As you can see, it's not complete (see my sketch) but I do like the way it looks.

My artist friends and I put together a colorful table of goodies.  I was so pleased with how it turned out!  I made cupcakes and a lime mint punch.

Trio Jazz joined us, love their sound!

It was a delightful evening.  The live music, candles and flowers were a nice touch.  It was lovely to see my friends and family come out.  We also had a lot of guests through that I didn't know.  It was fun to meet people and enjoy their reaction to my work.

The exhibit is up two months, I still have a chance to complete the vision I set out with.  If you'd like to help me reach that goal, please pledge today at Kickstarter.com.  Just go to the kickstarter.com website and enter "whole" and my sketch should pop right up.  I've heard from one person that their pledge didn't go through. So if you pledged but didn't enter your information on Amazon to pay, and if your name is not on the "backers" tab, then your pledge didn't go through.  There are only these last 10 days left.  Please join with others around the country to make this dream a reality and take home a piece of the whole.  And thank you.

Here's to music, candles, flowers and.... COLOR!  (of course!)

Whole, a broken heart, a vibrant hope.

Happy Creating,

-Carmen Rose

Kickstarting a new project

I'm very pleased to announce my brand new "Kickstarter.com" project.  If you haven't heard of Kickstarter.com yet, check it out, it's an excellent way to fund and follow creativity.  I am pleased with how the video turned out, even with an audio malfunction on my little flip cam.  Surf on over to see my project and watch the video with me in it.  If you like the project, please share the information with your friends.  Thanks!

Happy Creating!
-Carmen Rose

This should be fun.

My project has been approved by Kickstarter.com and I'll be going live as soon as possible.  

Here are some teasers:

 I love old skeleton keys.  These are the ones I keep by my front door in case I ever lose my keyring. 

 I put these marvelous old keys in the kiln with enamel powder just to see what would happen.  

I love how they turned out!

Just a photo of three canvas sizes.  6x6, 9x9 and 12x12. 

Check back for more information in the coming days!

(and wish me luck!)

Happy Creating,

-Carmen Rose

Joyful Heart & Hearth

I wrote about these quilts as I was making them. They were for the kid's room and they looked really cute in there. We no longer need bedrooms for children and they do make a lovely addition to my featured artist display.

Now they are all quilted up and the binding is on. I'm pleased about how they look when combined with other quilts on the wall, the art glass and the hand dyed scarves.

"Joyful Heart & Hearth"

Commercial cottons & blends

Machine pieced & quilted

29 x 39

$360

"Building Blocks"

Commercial cotton

Machine pieced and quilted

16 x 30

$150

Happy Creating,

-Carmen Rose

Petit Fours

You may remember this quartet of quilts from an earlier post:

Inspired by a comment from a friend I decided to call them "Petit Fours" Which I happen to think is dreadfully funnny, just wish I had thought of it.

And here are the Petit Fours as a part of my Featured Artist display with some hand dyed scarves and some of my glazed glass.

They are:

Petit Four 1, 2, 3 and 4

Hand dyed cotton

Fused and Machine Quilted

6.5 x 6.5 framed to 15 x 15

$169 each