Watercolor and other art by Rachel Ferrier
Thanks to a fortunate turn of events, I got to take Fairy Tree Studios to one last market this year, this time in downtown Champaign. I think I mentioned before that one of my work colleagues is also one of the market's organizers; she offered to share her booth with me if I manned the… Continue reading Bonus Market #3: Mistletoe Market in Champaign
A few weeks ago, I decided to go shopping for a 2022 planner. I'm starting to get some things scheduled for January and beyond, particularly at work, so I figured I'd get a head start on writing it all down. I've only started to use a planner regularly in the last couple of years, after… Continue reading A Plan(ner) for 2022
For those of you keeping up on the news from my last post, I am happy to report that the Mistletoe Market was a great success. It was well-organized, well-attended, and I made many sales. My wood slice ornaments -- I was so happy with how they turned out. The week leading up to the… Continue reading Mistletoe Market and my end-of-the-year projects
Exciting news, everyone! I was accepted as a vendor for the Mistletoe Market, coming up on December 4! I went to the market as a shopper pre-pandemic, and it was a fun and lively event with lots of interesting goodies for sale, so I'm particularly pleased that they thought I would be a good fit.… Continue reading Market #2 for 2021: the Mistletoe Market!
Have you ever taken one of those online tests to determine whether you're an introvert or an extravert? When I was younger, I was definitely on the introvert side of the spectrum. As I've gotten older, I've moved more to the center of the spectrum (sometimes called an ambivert), but I'm definitely still on the… Continue reading Some musings on painting studies
I'm happy to say that after about a two-year hiatus (thanks largely to the pandemic) I got to do an in-person market again last weekend. I had a tent up at Made Fest, which is part of Pygmalion, an annual literary and music festival in Champaign-Urbana. I honestly spent a big part of the last… Continue reading Back on the Market: Made Fest 2021
As an "artist," I feel like I'm always in search of new sources of inspiration (especially now that one of my favorite ways to be inspired, travelling, is a little more restricted). Several of the artists I follow have something akin to a vision board, or a collection of colors, images, and textures that speak… Continue reading Creating an art-themed Vision Board (and maybe one for real life, too)
I took a drawing class in undergrad that I didn't really like. I don't think it was the instructor's fault; he just taught drawing in a way that was different from how I'd taught myself. (Well, that and we had to draw what he said to draw, not what we wanted to draw.) But I… Continue reading Fall Preview for Fairy Tree Studios
Here we are, somehow in the beginning of July already, halfway through 2021. My wedding day has come and gone, and with it all the planning and preparing that took up most of my creative energy for the first half of the year. Admittedly I’m feeling the absence of such a major project; don’t get… Continue reading 2021, Part II: I Got Married!
Things have really ramped up in work and life lately, which is the main reason I’ve been away from here -- I got a promotion and a new position in my “day job,” which has meant new training and a new schedule, and now our wedding is officially less than two weeks away. This last… Continue reading Wedding Planning During a Pandemic — the Home Stretch
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