Art Show

Art show time in Georgia! Mom and Dad came down this weekend for the Falling for Henry arts festival south of the city.

They even shacked up with us and the girls in the apartment, and we even turned over our king bed for their use...though given my family's size, me, John, Tilley, Laika, AND Mom and Dad could have all laid up like cordwood in the bed and never touched.

The art show was beautiful and had many talented artists, but Grandy only had one sale to Aunt Sandra (despite his consumption of a Red Bull, his first -- like the man needs any more energy?). We had a time with the sun hitting Dad's booth and kept rearranging to combat steam. Steam + Watercolor = BAD.

We had a great time though, visiting with my cousin Christina and Aunt Sandra, as well as our good friends Scott and Katherine Allen Coleman. Katherine won best in show!


Christina designs AMAZING jewelry...given that they lived all over the world, she has a true gift for designing things with such different cultural feels and uses beautiful gems and metals in her work. Some pieces feature the little bells that I always remember her having from all her travels when she was a cool teenager and I was a weirdo middle-schooler.

She has such great style, so much so that once she turned me from a bland 17-year old into (what appeared to be) a 24-year old Euro Club girl in order to get the three of us into a dance club in Mexico City (it worked).

It was great to hang out and catch up with them and also see her at work and see her amazing displays; I have seen her stuff (and am the proud owner of several, including two custom made pieces for the girls!) but had never seen her show booth. Very cool! She's also getting into running and hopefully next spring we are going to tackle a 5k together in Chattanooga. We recently went out at the cabin with Alex and went to go walking to Pine Grove...and ended up running the whole way back. She's a rock star.