A quail egg before Christmas

Been busy, but here's a quail egg I made last week.  Keep in mind that this egg measures maybe 1.5 inches tall!

Fall Schedule

The East Austin Studio Tour is fast approaching!  The tour has been expanded to two weekends, November 14th and 15th and November 21st and 22nd, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.  Come out to tour the studio, take a look at my new egg designs and try your hand at the process of pysanky.  For more information, go to the  E.A.S.T. website and look up Katyegg or Kate Bradshaw David. Looking forward to seeing a good crowd.

Also, believe it or not, the Holiday season is just around the corner.  This year I am happy to be selling my wares at the Cherrywood Art Fair at Maplewood School(38 1/2 Street at Maplewood Ave., Austin), Saturday, December 12th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, December 13th from Noon to 6 p.m.  There will be music, food, and tons of amazing art. 

New products on Zazzle

Okay, I say products, but at this very moment it is just one notecard. I plan on introducing more as I can, but this will do for now:  Blue Poppy Notecard

Tell all your friends!

Been a long time

I believe that I need to get on a schedule or I will never contribute to this blog.  Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or something like that.  Let me think about it.  I have been trying to gear up for fall and the holiday season.  I am still unsure whether I am participating in E.A.S.T or not.  They cashed my check, but I never heard anything from them.  I spoke with one of them this past weekend, but he couldn't tell me anything.  The program is at the printer and is due to come back the weekend before the tour starts, so I guess I have one week to get everything together if I am participating.  I'm trying to go with the flow on this one and not get frustrated.  There's nothing that I can accomplish with being frustrated.

Second day volunteering at the HRC

And I did my second day of volunteering - it was fun! The museum received Robert DeNiro's costume collection, and today I got to see Travis Bickle's jacket and plaid shirt from Taxi Driver (my husband was very jealous!) and the feather boa and pink dress from this scene in Stardust! 
this scene in Stardust This place is amazing! The meeting was a half hour discussion of hangers for the coats! There was a choice of four kinds of metal hanger, then templates of cardboard forms (four of them) for the shoulders, what kind of padding the cardboard form should have, then a prototype of muslin slipcover (how heavy, what kind of fasteners, should it be closed at the bottom, etc. ) And after all that, they all just nodded and said "Very interesting ideas here. We will have to talk some more about it." The woman who I am working with actually said that there is nothing that she ever does that has a deadline. They are literally allowed as much time as they need to finish whatever it is they are working on. I cannot imagine having a job that is that mellow. I could definitely work at a place like that! Not that they don't work hard, but they are able to do a good job and do it right.

Commission egg completed!

One of my favorite ladies from the American Pregnancy Association forums commissioned a birthday egg for her daughter who turns two in October.  It was a difficult one to think about because she doesn't care for bright colors, animals, birds, flowers, or plants.  She is originally from Eastern Europe, so we landed on a traditional Trypillian design similar to some of the traditional ceramics seen in her country.  She requested that the name be written in Cyrillic, so that was fun for me to research that and try to find a good font that matched the theme of the egg without being unclear or overboard.

First Day of Volunteering

Wednesday was my first day to volunteer at the Harry Ransom Center in the conservation department  I will be working in housing (making archival boxes), but because the department head was out this week, I went to book preservation for the first day.  The department head is an astonishingly knowledgeable person.  The depth and breadth of her knowledge is wondrous.