I made it to puzzlePALOOZA!

I did it. I achieved puzzle piece.

As I mentioned in this post, I officially named my piece Cheezle. Well, I changed my mind. It’s now named Chaiku – the book component of the puzzle piece contains 12 haiku that I wrote about cheese.
Due to lack of time, I wrote the haiku in by hand. Unfortunately, [...]

Puzzle piece update #3

Welcome to today’s State of the Cheese address.
There are now 3 coats of paint on my wood puzzle piece provided to me by the Vermont Arts Council as part of their Art Fits Vermont project.
Here’s what it looks like:

I can’t take a decent picture to save my life. The color is a subtle swiss cheese [...]

Puzzle piece update #2

Yesterday I continued working on my wood puzzle piece provided to me by the Vermont Arts Council as part of their Art Fits Vermont project.
I started with a primer. I should have used white primer instead of clear because it would have cut down on painting time later on. That’s what a logical person would [...]

Puzzle piece update #1

As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been busy working on a wood puzzle piece provided to me by the Vermont Arts Council as part of their Art Fits Vermont project.
I started by tracing the puzzle piece. I then drew and cut out the cheese holes.

After tracing the cheese holes onto the wood, I started to cut [...]

My race to puzzlePALOOZA

I am a last minute girl. I hate it.
The Vermont Arts Council distributed 9,500 wood puzzle pieces to individuals and groups across the state as part of their Art Fits Vermont project. I received one of them several months ago. My puzzle piece has stared at me in my studio while I worked on various [...]