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www.matttommeymentoring.com/We are in a brand new year, filled with hope and adventures. I am currently entering and applying to juried festivals and exhibits around my state of New York. So far I’m accepted into the Inlet Arts in the Park festival, the Adirondack sheep and art festival, the Mushroom Festival and waiting on a few others. It’s shaping up to be a busy summer with camping and festivals in between Bed and Breakfast guests .
I have new mushrooms and lakes and flowers coming out soon. I’ve also been promoting my hand embroidered sonograms in two local hospitals. It’s a busy time! Finally, I want to share with you a huge resource and encouragement for me in my art business process. There is a mentoring program I subscribe to that has been so informative and invaluable to me these last three years, with an online course and live zoom calls, Q&A live zooms, Expert Hour Zoom calls and then the wonderful worldwide community of subscribers that we get to meet and form friendships. I treasure my new friends in the group and have met up with a few of them in person. This group and opportunity to join can be found here http://www.matttommeymentoring.com/ . It really is a wonderful group. I’ll keep you up to date on all the new festivals and goings on to come! Connie  Last night was the Thousand Islands Arts Center Opening Reception for the Along The Rivers Edge Juried Show! I have two pieces in it again this year, the life sized Luna Moth and an aerial view landscape of Wellesley Island. It was great to see friends there and meet new people! It was so nice Amanda could join me again this year. Next up is the Inlet Arts in the Park Festival this weekend, July 15-16. Come and see my new products and my booth! I will be opening orders for a special BUNDLE package when I'm there! A custom landscape plus a few sweet BONUS items! Give me a call if you are interested!
 June 6, 2023 Wow, where does the time go?? So much has happened already this year. I made a Tiny Art Gallery for my community and installed it at the end of my driveway. People can bring art and take art, free! Much like the little library boxes. The local news station came and did an interview and the newspapers did articles. How fun! There has been art flowing through it quite regularly. It is currently empty so I will issue another Call For Artists on Facebook and that should generate more art. Link to WWNY news station interview: https://www.wwnytv.com/2023/03/06/tiny-art-new-gallery-opens-croghan/ I've made it into several juried shows again this year, and will be at Inlets Arts in the Park Festival, Blue mountain Lakes Artisans Festival, the Mushroom Mania Festival and I'm waiting on a couple more! I have my first Solo Show titled, Threads in Nature, in Sept-Oct at Adirondack Lakes Center of the Arts in Blue Mountain! I also have two major pieces in the new Permanent Exhibit at Adirondack Experience Blue Mountain Museum, opening date is July 1st! And I've been interviewed by Matt Tommy, author, mentor, speaker and artist. The podcast can be found here. https://podcasts.google.com/?q=the%20thriving%20christian%20artist All in all it's been a good year with sales and press and productivity. I hope to see you at a festival or contact me to see my little entry shop!
 Happy 4th of July! We have been going on hikes in the Adirondacks lately and I am feeling so inspired and excited by the beautiful nature we can experience firsthand. We hiked the Eagle Canyon Trail off of the Fish Creek Road this weekend. It was fantastic! The moss covered boulders that look like they were just tossed here and there, the massive wall of rock, the moss everywhere, the tall trees that grow from a 6 inch crack in the cliff, the unusual mushrooms and the view from the top!! The rapids are sometimes used for white water rafting in the fall. There are areas where rock climbers have gear pounded in the cliff. Amazing. It's a great way to spend a weekend and I have several ideas emerging to develop in the future. I hope your 4th was just as satisfying and enjoyable as ours. I believe the mushroom is Genus Phaeolus Schweinitzii.
Hi! I'm branching out a bit and offering art classes for adults at Connie Noftsier Studio! Each month is a different medium of art, try something new and bring a friend. A class would make a great Mother's Day gift! Registration will BEGIN tomorrow, at connienoftsierstudio.com, Saturday April 23rd for these four classes and registration will END May 7th. I have 8 seats per class so sign up early to get a spot. I hope to see you at a class! Connie     
Hello Fall! What a beautiful time of year here in the foothills of the Adirondacks. The maple trees are plenty here and are beginning to show off their colors and are so inspiring. I’ve been busy working on a fall line of pendants and am pleased to have them finished and posted in the shop area of the website. Take a look and see what ones you love best!
We haven’t been out looking for mushrooms in a month, it’s been so busy! Maybe next weekend we can fit it in, I hear the honey mushrooms and chicken of the woods mushrooms are out now. Mmm, I love chicken of the woods mushrooms, the texture is truely like chicken and with the right seasonings you would think you were eating chicken! Take care and enjoy the fall!  Chanterelles! Well, I did say I wouldn’t overwhelm you with too many posts! It’s been a while since I posted, no, we did not eat the deadly gems! We have been busy working and doing forays in and around the Adirondacks on the weekends whenever we can. We have wanted to find some chanterelles but just when we think we found some they weren’t quite right. And the number one rule is if you have ANY doubt at all don’t eat them! Randy had gone fishing and found these lovely gems, a large group of them in fact! He brought some home and looked them up online and in his book. They were NOT chanterelles but were the deadly Jack-o-lantern mushroom. They weren’t growing in the right place and were too close together and the color was off. So disappointing! Fast forward a few weeks… we were camping after a month of rain, no kidding, this July was the wettest in recorded history in our area, and the mushrooms were prolific! We found so many different types it is amazing! I will post more pictures later but the most exciting ones are the chanterelle! They were growing in the right place and way and looked like the reference guide and a mushroom group confirmed they were chanterelle. We did not eat them though since we didn’t have cell service at camp and it was too long to store them before we could check with our group. Maybe the next time we will be able to confirm more quickly and get to taste them. Thanks again for joining us!  Chanterelle Mushroom  Chanterelle Mushroom Connie Noftsier Studio Special Announcement! Two of my fiber sculpture mushroom pieces have been placed on consignment in the Wide River Antiques store in Long Lake! That’s a first for me and makes me so happy to have my work represented in the Adirondacks!! Thank you Pat for the opportunity! If you are down that way check out this delightful store of well chosen antique and art pieces. The new piece I’ve been working on and just finished has a very tiny parasol mushroom and moss in a knot of wood displayed under a glass dome.  Sculpture of Adirondack Mushroom  Adirondack Fiber Sculpture Mushroom  Fiber Sculpture Mushroom |
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