lo and behold

Is it just me, or does having to do taxes drive you deeper and deeper into the blogosphere?  I’m even cooking and cleaning to avoid that nasty Schedule C.  I keep saying to myself:  today I’ll let myself play and then tomorrow I’ll really be ready to focus on the taxes.  Of course, I need to do all sorts of catch-up record keeping before I can even begin to actually fill out the form.  Oh, what am I saying?  I don’t fill out the form. Our accountant fills out the form, but I have to fill out the accountant’s form and even that has me in knots. Plus it was due to him on March 1, and I hate being that person who blows in on April 1 . . . Each year we somehow manage to get there a little earlier, but it’s no March 1;  I used to be the person who was cashing my refund on March 1.  Oh, that was a long time ago.  A. Long. Time. Ago.  In more ways than one. 

So, if you want to join me in procrastination, here’s what I suggest:

And the Winner Is . . . if you aren’t sick of those words, check out this blog post at the American Craft Council. I have never been to one of their shows, which happen several times a year in different parts of the country.  I’m sure that one day I will, not to mention what a dream it would be to exhibit at one (be still my heart).  This post describes a tradition they have of recognizing some of the artists with a special award, and revealing those awards in a walk-through on the day before the show.  Isn’t that sweet?  This post describes each of the winners and why they were chosen, which for me, as a developing artist, was very interesting.  A few of the winners are:

Dan Mirer, glass artist (photographs by Jenny Gill, ACC)

Natalie Blake ceramic artist, and I am delighted to say that I have two of her tiles hanging in my kitchen right now! 

So, avoid something important you are supposed to be doing and go the ACC blog post right now to see the rest of the winners.  But do not, for any reason, also spend an hour (or two) surfing the website of each winning artist.  That would be wrong.

And do not go to the  Art Bead Scene Color Challenge which is open for entries until April 1, because if you do, you will want to immediately start constructing your entry.   I did not do that.  Not at all.