Sweet Salida Colorado

My sweet baby Elias is four months old this week. To celebrate I treated myself with a trip to the annual COMA conference in Salida last
weekend. My studio manager Sahra came with me and we had such a fun time. The luxurious part was I hired my awesome babysitter Amy to come with us.

This meant I actually got to see and enjoy the presenters who spoke and gave demonstrations like Jamie Bennett (his enamel brooch pictured above).

and the sculptured reliefs of Linda Kindler Priest,
so natural and organic.

Salida is also the future home to an exhibit that I am so excited about. I can't believe that I live close enough to be able to see Over the River in person when it comes to Colorado in 2012.

Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude will suspend horizontally a total of 5.9 miles of silvery, luminous fabric panels high above the Arkansas River along a 40-mile stretch of the river between Salida and Cañon City in south-central Colorado. I'm dreaming that maybe my family and I can volunteer to be a part of the set up. I signed up on their website so I've got my fingers crossed!