Enthusiasm for The Object Enthusiast

If you aren't familiar with The Object Enthusiast (aka Emily Reinhardt) prepare yourself.

Emily is a local ceramic artist and blogger (check out her Etsy store here and her blog here). I would literally buy everything in her Etsy store if I had the money....but I don't. So, I settled for buying a set of these cute tumblers and a set of these cute little cups.

Buy something from her now before she becomes wildly famous and her prices skyrocket!

(Also take a look at her blog! She has great recommendations of cool stuff to check out.)

A Pat on the Back...

So, you might remember a little goal I made for myself in this post. If you don't bother to click on the link, I will fill you in...my goal was to sell at least 10 photos at the farmer's market, and I've sold.....

13!!!!!!

Oh, heck yeah! It feels fantastic. I had no idea I could do it, but I did. And now there are perfect strangers (and a few friends and some acquaintances) who have MY photos hanging in their homes. That is just bizarre to me! But, it definitely gives me confidence to keep going (even if the dumb ol' MAC didn't pick any of my photos for their Manhattan Photographers exhibit).

So, here are some of my favorite photos I've taken in the past few weeks. Enjoy and thanks to everyone for the support of my silly little dream!

Elevators in Green, Kansas

Funky little shop in Leonardville, Kansas

Leonardville, Kansas (One of my favorite photos I've ever taken!)

Beautiful abandoned school or church in Leonardville, Kansas

Same old abandoned school or church

Used cars in Randolph, Kansas

Wheat field outside of Clay Center, Kansas

Movie theater in Clay Center, Kansas

Open field in the middle of Clay Center, Kansas

Time to Celebrate!

Dorothy Currence

A few weeks ago I was out at my favorite little thrift stores, the Grand Ol' Trunk and Second Thyme Around. I can't remember what I was looking for, but I know that I was drooling over a bunch of furniture that was begging to be refurbished. I went into the back room and on top of one of the dressers was a huge stack of drawings, paintings, sketches, etc. I picked through them and found some really great pieces, most done in 1981, but there were a few (the flowers below) that were done in the 1950's. They ended up being $1/piece! The man at the register said that the artist was a local woman who recently passed away.

At first it made me sad that her work was scattered in an old thrift shop, but then the man told me that what I was getting was the last scrapping of what was left. A lot of people had been coming in and buying a lot of the pieces. It gave me so much joy to know that Dorothy's work was being spread all around Manhattan and that new people would get to experience it.

My bedroom seems so much more comfortable now that I have Dorothy's work covering my walls. I may never have known her, but Dorothy's artistic legacy lives on....