Phew. Its been a crazy summer thus far. I’ve been summering the hell out of it. However when I got back into town from our mega trip, I discovered that not only did my one and only external drive bite the dust while we were traveling but my computer had some sort of stroke in my absence. I was not happy for a moment there. During the process of getting everything recovered and working again, I probably would have flipped my desk on more than one occasion had it not been for the fact that it weighs a ton. BUT, after many trips to consult the “geek squad” and thousands of hours reading forums on various ways to fix the endless stream of problems I was having, I think I have everything back on track (knock on wood). Ive also learned from all the eye rolls I encountered when I said I only had one back up drive that apparently I should have many… and backups for those. Apparently they think I have a money tree as well.
Thats why its been awhile since I’ve updated…
aaaaanyway, This is what Ive been up to:
I packed up my four and five year old and left town for a few weeks for a marathon trip involving stops in Connecticut, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and South Carolina. That last one was unplanned (its a long story involving my intense fear of flying, I won’t bore you with it, that is if I haven’t bored you already). It was amazing to see so many old friends and hit up as many museums and eat as much food as humanly possible. One if the highlight was being to attend the Tiny Trifecta at The Cotton Candy Machine in Brooklyn. They invited me to participate this year and I was more than excited to.
The kids are pumped. Madilynn with her best bud Izzy
my pieces hung among some stellar artists…
Thank you so much to those who bought my work, it felt great to sell out that night! The pieces from the show…
I had a wonderful time in Brooklyn and saw so many old friends it made my heart swell. Teaching my kids to navigate the subway was interesting and full of horrifying moments of my youngest putting her face/mouth/ hands all over everything. It was like emersion therapy for me and my feeling about germs. We even made it over to Bushwick to eat at my friends new restaurant Montana’s Trail House (you must go) and spotted this beautiful Mural by Beau Stanton across the street…
sometimes I miss New York.
The rest of the trip involved the American Museum of Natural History, walks in Central Park, a slightly horrifying trip to Times Square because the kids HAD to go to the big Toys r Us, racing down to philly and visiting dear friends and getting to see the Barnes Museum for the first time which was very special and inspiring, The Franklin Insitute, Philadelphia Zoo, the South Carolina Aquarium… We wanted to squeeze every last drop of fun out of this trip, but I won’t blather on any more and I promise I won’t fill the rest of this post with vacation kid pictures…
I was also involved, When I got back to savannah, the Artists & Artisans Tour of homes sponsored by the Downtown Neighborhood Association, My work was displayed in a beautiful home on Gaston Street along with many other local Artists…
Now things are normalizing and Im back in my hidey hole working on some new things…
the mess
oh and STICKERS!
Soon there will be t-shirts which I am quite excited about and I am beginning to work on a new poster that will hopefully be available in the fall…
Also If you follow me on Instagram (@clawandboneart) you have probably heard me mention this but I am cleaning out some prints and things on my etsy shop and will be switching primarily to my big cartel shop. Right now you can get everything in my shop for 30% off with the code CLEANUP at checkout (including baroness posters!)… I will be keeping it up for another week or so AND you’ll find some stickers in with your order…
Follow this link to get to my Etsy Shop www.etsy.com/shop/clawandbone
I also will be putting some of the newer originals up on my Big Cartel shop this week like this one
AND there is also a brand new print up for sale as well…
an edition of only 25 of my original painting “shadow self” for only 20 bucks…
Okay I think thats enough for now. Im pretty wordy today so I appreciate it if you actually made it all the way through this post…
I hope everyone is have an amazing summer ❤
Party On…
Artwork of Kelley Hagemes 