I’ll be on the  Tucson Pima Arts Council’s Fall Studio Tour, so come by.
Saturday and Sunday, November 12 and 13, from 11AM-5PM.
The studio is in the backyard at 522 S Fifth Avenue in downtown Tucson.

Most of the work I have right now is the new work I’ve been doing with maps, but expect some surprises too.
If it’s chilly I’ll have a fire in the outdoor fireplace all day.

Maximize your joy and do the Studio Tour is on a bike! Let me know you rode your bike and I’ll have a special present for you.

I engraved a handful of vintage silverplate tableware with some favorite musicians, and they’ll be for sale at the Tucson Museum of Art gift shop. 100% of  proceeds will go to the Museum.

There’s a set of six dessert forks with the Beatles, Little Richard, and Elvis:

As well as an Elegant Ella Fitzgerald serving fork and a spoon (I think of it as a purse spoon) with Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul:

Wurst is Best!
If you find one I’d love to hear the story.

“ My name is Irene and I am from Spain, although I have lived in England. I am traveling for a month I just happen to have found one of your lovely spoons. I stayed in a Hi hostel California and I bought a water melon. I wanted to eat it at the beach so I borrowed one of the spoons from the hostel. Then I have to change hostel next day and I forgot about the spoon. Having a look to it more carefully I realised that maybe someone from the hostel had written something on it, but I had a second check and noticed that it was quite good for been just anyone. It seems like and artist job. I was very curious and I had a look to the website and just found this. I am very happy!!! ”

Here’s the mysterious part: I left that spoon in the Pigeon Point Hostel near San Francisco several weeks before Irene found it in the Santa Monica Hostel. It traveled!

Irene and Her Spoon. It says "YAY! Lovey Dovey" on it.

Irene, I am very happy too! Thank you for writing to me, and for traveling the world and paying attention to the little details in it.

The spoons I left at Point Loma

Furry Murray

I just gave him a makeover and a change of gender. Now her name is Flora.

Clay died two years ago, and I still miss him.

Clay was terrified of thunder and fireworks.
Once I was bringing groceries into the house in the middle of a thunderstorm. I put some bags down on the kitchen counter  and saw Clay cowering at the booming  thunder, in fear for his life. I tried to comfort him, but there is nothing a human can say to a dog who believes that the apocalypse has really truly arrived.
I had to make one more trip to the truck for one more bag of groceries. When I went back outside, Clay followed me closely out to the truck and back, covering me the whole way.
Brave heart! Clay believed I was in mortal danger, and he was risking his life to protect me from his deepest fear: thunder. I always remembered that about him, that he was willing to risk his life to keep me safe.

Now comes the season of fireworks and thunderous monsoons.
It’s the scariest time of the year for a lot of dogs. It’s common to see them running lost in the street on July 5th, or after big storms. The Humane Society helps reunite them with their people.

I have had this reverse glass painting for sale for $600.
I am ready to sell it and will  donate the entire sale amount to the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, in honor of dear courageous Clay, and of you the buyer.
Since several people said they were interested, I have decided to auction it so it makes the maximum amount for the Humane Society.
Bidding starts at $300. Send me your bid with the contact form here on the site. I will accept payments over time.

It measures 22″ x 17″

Contact me if you’re interested.

Send me a picture with the form at the bottom of this page. I’ll put your refrigerator up here, and send you more postcards.

Felix Valencia’s dorm fridge, with Little Brother.  University of Arizona.

Peggy Sue McRae, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington.
Left: Long Wait; middle top: Zoe Braves the Rain; middle bottom: Man Fan; right: Powerlines

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MYSTERY!

An experiment: I’m honoring my favorite restaurants and other places by spoonbombing them.

SPOONBOMBING? What?

I engrave  spoons (well, OK, sometimes forks too) especially for that particular place, and leave them with the dishes on the table when I leave.

Will anyone notice?
Will the spoons keep circulating in the restaurant?
Will visitors slip them into their pockets?
These are my burning questions, this is my research!

I’ve left spoons at Wilko,  Cafe Passe and Cafe Zope in Tucson, and at the Pigeon Point and Point Loma Hostels in California.

I spoonbombed New York City and left spoons in Provence en Boite and Trix in Brooklyn, and at Think Coffee in Manhattan after the October 15 march from Wall Street to Washington Square.

If you find one of my spoons, send me a message with the form below,  and tell me the story!

You can see the stories people send me in the NEWS section of this site.

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See it! Hear it! Feel happy!
Mamta Popat’s audio slideshow for the Arizona Daily Star

YAY!

They are not for sale; I give them as gifts and donate them to fundraisers.

I sometimes make them on commission but do not accept payment.
You may make a gift to someone or something that makes the world a more joyful place, or I will accept a donation that will fund the purchase of  more thriftshop forks and spoons to give away.

Pie Party Forks. I made over 100 of these for Tucson's annual Eat More Pie Party. All proceeds went to Owl and Panther, an organization that helps children of refugees and victims of torture express themselves creatively.