Getting to know you…
Hi, my name is Kyla and I am the new writer for this blog. I am very excited to get the opportunity to write about art. I inherited my love of art from my mother who dragged me and my brothers through endless museums as small children. Mother also taught us many types of arts and crafts. We did leather tooling, drawing, painting, sewing, needlepoint and ceramics, just to name a few. I carried that love of art into my adulthood and I am now forever taking a class in one thing or another. In fact I just recently started a stained glass class with a wonderful local glass store here in Austin, Tx, Blue Moon Glassworks. I’ve taken several glass bead making (or lampwork) classes from them in the past but this is my first stained glass class. Check out my other blog, Getting Crafty, to follow along with that class.
In addition to the stained glass, my other passion right now is cake decorating and sugar arts. I’m the President Elect for Capital Confectioners of Austin. Each year we hold a big cake show in February. This year’s show will take place from Freb 28- Mar 1st and will have around 300 cakes and 3000 attendees. We have some amazing artists lined up. We have Debbie Brown coming in from the UK. Debbie is the most prolific writer of cake decorating books in the UK. We also have Nick Lodge coming, who is British but he lives in Georgia and Elisa Strauss from Confetti Cakes as well as Jacquy Pfeiffer, the founder of the Chicago. It’s going to be an amazing show! Visit out website at www.thattakesthecake.org.
I’m interested in all forms of art so please feel free to share your passions with me!
