WORLD'S LARGEST FOLK ART FESTIVAL -- THIS WEEK'S WORK-- COMPUTER MELTDOWN!!! IT HAS ALL HAPPENED THIS WEEK!! LOADS OF PICS!!

Happy Afternoon!!! I have so much to tell you, it's been a very exciting week for me, and on top of it--a bunch of computer problems...but, let's start at the beginning.

Last week at the Chattanooga Market was VERY, VERY good!! We had a blast as usual, and all went well. Then on Monday morning, the lady that runs the gallery that is showing my work called, and asked if I would like to be the gallery's featured artist at this festival:

Slotin Folk Fest 2009
The world’s largest folk art show & sale hosting 100 galleries & dealers from around the nation specializing in Self-taught Art, Outsider Art, Folk Art and Southern Folk Pottery & Anonymous Antique Folk Art.

Place:
North Atlanta Trade Center
1700 Jeurgens Court
Norcross, Georgia 30093
I-85 and Indian Trail Rd., Exit 101

Dates:
August 14-16, 2009
Friday, August 14 • 5pm-10pm • $15 (includes and readmission)
Meet-The-Artists Party & Show Opening
Saturday, August 15 • 10am-7pm • $7
Sunday, August 16 • 10am-5pm • $7
Children 16 and under are FREE

I am VERY EXCITED about this!! It's a MAJOR SHOW!!!:::HAPPY DANCING ALL WEEK LONG!!:::::: I immediately said yes, and this week, Nature Boy and I decided that if it's ok with the woman who invited me, I am going to ask a friend to join me, and Nature Boy is going to stay at home, and babysit Petey..heheeheh..

We also had a computer MELTDOWN this weekend, and because of a very, very stupid thing that I did, I had to rush the computer to a clinic, and have all of my art files extracted from a messed up hard drive. FORTUNATELY, the guy was able to salvage all of my art files, but I lost a million links, and all of my text stuff. Geesh...How bad could it get. On top of that--our back-up computer only runs with dial up, and doing ANYTHING on it was a major pain!!! But, now that is a thing of the past..and all the stress that came with it is over...But, I will be more diligent in BACKING UP my files!!!

This is Nature Boy's and my stuff that we've done this week...Nature Boy is REALLY surprising me!! He just keeps putting out cool stuff!!!

This one is 8 x 12, acrylics on wood.

This one is 12 x 12 on particle board. Tomorrow is Dog Days at the Chattanooga Market, and everyone can bring their dogs, so I did a couple of dog paintings.
This was inspired by a rubber stamp that I saw on Teesha Moore's site. It is 12 x 12, acrylics on wood.

This one is a "re-work"..12 x 12 on wood.

Nature Boy made an actual working cigar box guitar this week--It's AWESOME!!! It has REAL guitar strings and tuners on it, and Nature Boy's brother was actually able to play it. It is beautiful!!

These are all of the assemblages that my husband did this week. He's fast like me..hehehe

We collaborated on this one--

another doggie painting...

3 little paintings...

another dog...

and another (my favorite of all of them)..

Well..that's all..I have to get busy, and make some more stuff...am working on assemblage dolls and angels for tomorrow!

Live Artfully!! ~~Suzan~~