The Summer Studio Sale !!!!!!!!!!

It's time for the Summer Studio Sale!  The one day of the year you are actually invited to my house.

Saturday, July 22 you'll be able to tour my drawing and sculpture studios and purchase super cool artwork at super affordable prices.  This year I have guest artists with work for sale.  Here's everything you need to know:

Most Importantly...

This year we're asking everyone who reads this or participates in the studio sale to consider making a small donation to help support Jennifer Gravely and her family.  Just over a year ago, Jennifer was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and has been out of work since.  Her husband has also missed a lot of work while taking care of her and as you can imagine, financial help would be great.  Donating is easy by going here: DONATE

The location.

Type 6815 Hwy 49 Laurens, SC 29360 into your phone map.

The date and time.

Saturday, July 22, 10am to 5pm

The goods.

Drawings, sculptures, and wearable art will be available from me.  Other guest artists will be here too.  Cool, new, garden art will be available from my friend Leroy Perkins.  Leroy's cousin Sunny Perkins is also back with some cool stuff.  You have to see it all.  I'll also have all your favorite butt drawings at ridiculously low prices.  Seriously, we'll have all the stuff you can't live without!

The prices.

There will be art priced from $3 up to the hundreds.  There's no gallery commission here, so this is as cheap as you'll ever see it.  Something for every budget!

The payment.

Cash is your best friend.  We take debit and credit cards but The Man wants to take a cut and then tax the heck out of us.  We prefer to take cash from everyone.  Checks from family and friends.  We accept Venmo to @doug-mcabee-2.  We can also accept Paypal through the "send money" option to georgiedmac@aol.com but again....cash is best.

The food.

We'll have complementary snacks and drinks worthy of the drive.  Sweets, drinks, and all sorts of great goodies.  These will go fast!

The giveaway.

This year the giveaway is a surprise gift!  I bet you'll want it.  Everyone who makes a purchase during the sale will be entered to win.

The internet.

If you can't make the drive, you may make internet purchases beginning at 10am on July 22.  Shoppers who show up may have a head start on the good stuff, so please text, DM on Instagram, email, or call me to be sure the item you want is still available.  You must pay by Venmo or Paypal at the time of the purchase.  Venmo to @doug-mcabee-2.  Paypal payment can be made by using the "send money" option, not "goods and services" to georgiedmac@aol.com or you can email me and we can send you an invoice by email with Paypal link for payment.  Please add the shipping cost to the price when you pay.  If you don't pay shipping, arrange to pick up your item.  (Preview online below as updated photos appear.  I'll update this post with photos and prices in the coming days.)

*Shipping will vary based on size and weight.  If you need your purchases shipped, please contact me by text or email before purchasing.

Online shopping begins at 10am, Saturday, July 22.  Some of the items below may be sold on site by the time I receive your message.  It's best to shop in person but if you have questions, let me know.

The lowdown.

If you've never made it to the sale in person, you need to come.  There will be tons more than just drawings and sculptures available, way more than you'll see below.  We'll have steel mugs, vases, flowers, keychains, jewelry, garden art, sweets and vintage clothing!  There will be things that you never knew existed but you can't live another day without.  We are 45 mins from Columbia, 45 mins from Greenwood, 30 mins from Greenville and 30 mins from Spartanburg.

Come on, you know you've always wanted to come to Laurens.  Here's your chance.  Let me know if you have any questions.

ONLINE SHOPPING:

I'll be uploading images of items for sale as soon as they are available.  I hope you have your scrolling pants on...

fortune cookie charms and chains by sunny perkins

17", 11", 9"   $20 each

monopoly charms and chains by sunny perkins

8", 9", 11", 11"   $15 each

hand sculpted earrings by sunny perkins

banana, fortune cookie, lemons, doughnuts, avocados, strawberries, mushrooms, paintbrushes, spheres   $20 each

recycled materials earrings by sunny perkins

plastic, metal, paper   $10-$20 each

sealed paper earrings by sunny perkins

crescent moon, sun, banana, waffle/banana   $10 each

monopoly earrings by sunny perkins

$15 each (shoe, wheelbarrow, thimble unavailable)

beautiful glitter earrings by sunny perkins

$15 each

jar of hearts and ice cream cone shell earrings by sunny perkins

$15 each

rock "cactus" by blue mcabee

$5 (small chip on rim of planter, last one!)

big box of mcabee art remix prints mounted on foam board

$10 each (availability will vary)

blue high succulent butt planter by leroy perkins

$15

blue low succulent butt planter by leroy perkins

$15

red succulent butt planter by leroy perkins

$15

narwhal/stars 6.5" orchid planter

$20

hearts 2.5" planter

$10

narwhal half glazed 4" planter 

$20

birds 6" terra cotta planter

$15

red pelican 4"x7.5" metal decorative container

$20

green snake 4"x7.5" metal decorative container

$20

yellow weenie dog 4"x7.5" metal decorative container

$20

white snake 4"x7.5" metal decorative container

$20

improved classic renoir print, 18"x22" framed, matted with glass

$40

improved landscape print, 9"x11" framed, no glass

$10

improved landscape print, 9"x11" framed, no glass

$10

improved landscape print, 9"x11" framed, no glass

$10

8"x10" frame art by sunny perkins

$15

8"x8" frame art by sunny perkins

$15

8"x10" frame art by sunny perkins

$15

8"x10" frame art by sunny perkins

$15

8"x10" frame art by sunny perkins

$15

8"x8" frame art by sunny perkins

$15

5"x9" mirror art by sunny perkins

$15

3.5" mirror art by sunny perkins

$10

sealed paper pins by sunny perkins

$5 each

glitter resin keychains by sunny perkins

$5 each

weenie dog canvas critter drawing diptych (2- 8"x10")

$40

whale canvas critter drawing 8"x10"

$15

couple canvas critter drawing 8"x10"

$15

angel bird canvas critter drawing 8"x10"

$15

snail canvas critter drawing 8"x10"

$15

blue bird canvas critter drawing 8"x10"

$15

pelican canvas critter drawing 8"x10"

$15

bird/snake canvas critter drawing 8"x10"

$15

yellow bird canvas critter drawing 8"x10"

$15

14" beaded necklace by Katherine Rumminger 

$10

Sage and brown necklace by Katherine Rumminger

2 available (14", 17")

$10

9" bracelet/anklet by Katherine Rumminger

$10

16" pink and white necklace by Katherine Rumminger

$10

16" Kind People necklace by Katherine Rumminger

$10

14.5" flower necklace by Katherine Rumminger

$10

14.5" black and teal flower necklace by Katherine Rumminger

$10

14.5" black, yellow, white flower necklace by Katherine Rumminger

$10

15.5" safety pin necklace (can customize a 4 letter word by request) by Katherine Rumminger

$10

"Wooooooo" earrings by Katherine Rumminger

$10

"Open" 5"x7" matted photo by Katherine Rumminger

$10

"Drive In Lights" 5"x7" matted photo by Katherine Rumminger

$10

"Sisters" 5"x7" matted photo by Katherine Rumminger

$10

Untitled 5"x7" matted photo by Katherine Rumminger

$10

"Casper At The Drive In" 5"x7" matted photo by Katherine Rumminger

$10

"Art of Seeing" 9.5"x7" graphite drawing by Katherine Rumminger

black frame, white mat

$300

"Hinge" 6"x8" watercolor by Katherine Rumminger

$5

"If That Makes You Feel Better"

5"x7" drawing in 11"x 12" black frame

$50

steel pug by Leroy Perkins

$30

steel chihuahua by Leroy Perkins

$30

steel dog by Leroy Perkins

$30

steel german shepherd by Leroy Perkins

$40

steel bigfoot by Leroy Perkins

$30

8"x8" canvas print of this popular butt drawing

$30

2" ramekin candles by Blue

lavender scent, 3 available

$5 each

5" mason jar mug candles by Blue

lavender scent, 1 available

$10 each

4" ice cream cone candle by Blue

lavender scent

$10

5" farm mug candle by Blue

honeysuckle scent

$15

5" mason jar mug candle by Blue

honeysuckle scent

$10

4" steelers mug candle by Blue

honeysuckle scent

$10

4" Santa's Workshop mug candle by Blue

honeysuckle scent

$10

4" Santa mug candle by Blue

honeysuckle scent

$10

4" funny mug candle by Blue

honeysuckle scent

$10

5" mocha mug candle by Blue

honeysuckle scent

$10

4" The Far Side mug candle by Blue

honeysuckle scent

$10

ceramic piggy bank

$20

4" terra cotta skeleton narwhal planter

$15

5" ceramic bird whale moon planter

$15

5" ceramic bird cloud planter

$15

2022 McAbee Studio Sale Shirts

Each one is handprinted and hand dyed

$15 each

XL

MED

MED

SMALL

SMALL

1.5" buttons

$1 each

12"x12" drawing on wood

$50

(narhwal)

12"x12" drawing on wood

$50

(sweating bird)

16"X20" framed behind glass

$125

(dog)

16"x20" framed behind glass

$125

(heart bird)

11"x14" framed behind glass

$50

(pelican)

11"x14" framed behind glass

$50

(jaba gator)

16"x20" framed behind glass

$125

(snake)

16"x20" framed behind glass

$125

(skeleton plant)

24"x36" drawing on wood

$150

(smiling dog)

3"x3" stickers

$3 each

(sticker 1)

3"x3" stickers

$3 each

(sticker 2)

3"x3" stickers

$3 each

(sticker 3)

16"x19" customized Goodwill print framed behind glass

$75

(skeletons)

6"x6" Taylor Swift Eras Tour butt drawings

$25 each  (only black and red backgrounds (top right and top left are still available)

6"x6" butt drawings

$25 each

(group 1)(matching undies, breaking bad unavailable)

6"x6" butt drawings

$25 each

(group 2)(mario, spongebob, frog unavailable)

6"x6" butt drawings

$25 each

(group 3) (christmas vacation is unavailable)

8"x8" butt drawings

$25 each

(group 4)

6"x6" butt drawings

$25 each

(group 5) (frog is unavailable)

6"x6" butt drawings

$25 each

(group 6)

6"x6" butt drawings

$25 each

(group 7)

6"x6" butt drawings

$25 each

(group 8) (bottom right unavailable)

6"x6" butt drawings

$25 each

(group 9)

6"x6" butt drawings

$25 each

(group 10)

skull customized doc martens mens 11 black leather boots

$100

5"x7" framed behind glass

$30 each

(cloud or bird)

4"x6" framed behind glass

$30 each

(dog or drincken)

Leroy Perkins colorful flowers

sizes vary but these are the different colors available

$20 each

Leroy Perkins blue bull

$40

Leroy Perkins blue cow

$40

Leroy Perkins red bull

$40

Leroy Perkins cardinal (4 available)

$30 each

Leroy Perkins grumpy cat

$30

Leroy Perkins spoon flower blue

$30

Leroy Perkins spoon flower yellow and blue

$30

Leroy Perkins utensil flower blue, yellow, red

$30

Loving Rabbit

31"x21" in a poster frame

$100

The Amish UFO

22"x26" framed behind glass

$100

Love Bird

12"x12" on wood

$50

Storm Whale

12"x12" on wood

$50

hand drawn sharpie on medium Goodfellow tee

$15

hand drawn sharpie on medium Goodfellow tee

$15

hand drawn sharpie on medium Goodfellow tee

$15

WONDERFUL DRAWINGS BY KATIE CARVER

all 5.25"x5.25" framed

$45 each

just let me know what group and what drawing you want

group 1

group 2

group 3

group 4

group 5

group 6

group 7

group 8

group 9

blue's magnets

oversized thumb tacks, green hand, r2d2, lego minecraft people and trains

$1 each

blue's magnets

fish skeletons and pirate coins

$1 each

17"x21" improved pooh print framed behind glass

$75

violet's handmade bracelets

$5 each

(group 1)

violet's handmade bracelets

$5 each

(group 2)

"the 1" 2.75" circumference beaded stretchy ring

$5 plus shipping

"mine tv" 3" circumference beaded stretchy ring

$5 plus shipping

"pink beaded ring" 2.5" circumference

$5 plus shipping

"amber beaded ring" 2.75" circumference

$5 plus shipping

"my heart" 2.75" circumference beaded stretchy ring

$5 plus shipping

"button necklace" 18.5" circumference brown button with clasp

$20 plus shipping

"multicolor pastel beaded ring" 2.5" circumference

$5 plus shipping

"baby" key ring $5 plus shipping

"guts" 9" circumference stretchy beaded bracelet

$5 plus shipping

flowerpot bumble bees 13" long

$10 each

silverware bird in coral

$30

silverware bird in light blue

$30

silverware bird in red

$30

silverware bird in purple

$30

silverware bird in blue

$30

silverware bird in pink

$30

old people psa

Father’s Day 2019 I woke up before my church alarm to an unexpected gift.  Excruciating pain in my left eye.  This was a pain I had never felt before and my nurse wife couldn’t understand it.  Instead of going to the early “old people service” I spent the next few hours in Urgent Care.  When I finally saw a doctor, I had zero faith I would get help because the guy who walked in was the same guy who misdiagnosed me years earlier and almost sent me to a specialist for no good reason.  I’m not holding a grudge, I understand why he jumped to conclusions then, but when he couldn’t figure out why my eye was trying to kill me, he drained all my remaining faith in medicine.  

What neither of us knew on that day became much more clear in about 48 hours when my head became covered in ridiculously disgusting sores.  My eye doctor, who I have complete faith in, correctly diagnosed me with Shingles.  He called it a really bad case, perhaps the worst he’s ever seen.  

Shingles is supposed to be an old people sickness.  Grandparents get Shingles,  not 47 year old guys who are very healthy.  I’m sure my eye doctor or my wife explained it during one of the long car rides to and from doctors during the next few weeks when I couldn’t drive because my eye was swollen completely shut.  Something about the virus that causes Chicken Pox decides to hang out in your body forever and any day it gets pissed off, it chooses a major nerve and completely wrecks it.  On the surface it appears as nasty boils or sores.  Underneath the virus takes a jackhammer to your nerve causing intense pain and permanent damage in really bad cases.  

If you look at the diagram below, you’ll see one of the areas the virus likes to attack is on the top left of the person’s head (his left).  That’s exactly where it got me and that’s exactly what the boundary looked like.  Actual straight lines dividing the infected part from the uninfected part.  It was crazy.

If you’re nice, you’ll never have to worry about seeing any photos of me during this time.  They’re hideous.  Aside from looking like an actual monster, the pain was nearly unbearable.  I remember thinking that this must be what it feels like to have long needles jabbed directly into your eye sockets.  No pain medication even touched it in terms of helping.  One of the medications prescribed woke me up in the middle of the night screaming in pain feeling like someone was ripping my eye out of my head.  

In addition to the pain, I also felt like I had a terrible sickness.  I was achy and my joints hurt.  I was constantly tired.  It was a mess.  I was a mess.  

My kids had never seen me incapacitated like this.  One morning I got up and did my run with one eye open and collapsed on the bed after a shower.  That was all the activity I could muster.  I apparently dozed off and I woke to hear my son asking if I was still alive.  After a few weeks, the sores healed and I looked a little more normal.  After a couple of more weeks I could wear contacts again and resume some regular daily activities.  The eye pain continued for months.  The nerve pain continues today.  

People kept saying that I was too young to have Shingles.  At 47, I was too young to even get vaccinated against it.  Shingles didn’t care how old I was.  It was very mean to me.  The aftermath of it left me with discolored skin or scars on my head that are still visible.  It also left me with either long term or permanent nerve damage to that area of my head.  I guess we’ll all find out which it is in a few more years.  Every single day I have phantom pains that range from irritating to really painful.  I was very lucky to not lose any vision in my eye.  I knew this was not something I wanted to go through again so I started looking at options for a vaccination.  

I don’t care what you think about vaccines.  I, for one, am glad my mom dragged me to the pediatrician’s office to be vaccinated against some bad childhood and adulthood sicknesses.  At the same time, I know that some of the rare side effects of vaccines can be worse than those sicknesses.  I may even share your suspicion of “big pharma” or whatever people call it.  Anytime drugs are advertised on TV, we should all be able to see that as a very concerning problem.  Even with the whole fiasco of vaccines during 2020, I get that we all probably have feelings one way or another about vaccines.  Let me reiterate, I don’t care.  I would take a chance to never have the experience of Shingles again.  And I promise you that if you had seen me during that time or, Heaven forbid, you ever had Shingles, you would also be looking for a vaccine.

If you don’t know me well, this is where I have to tell you I don’t really go to doctors.  The reason I was in Urgent Care on that bad cruel Father’s Day is that I didn’t have a doctor of my own to call.  I wouldn’t say that I’m “scared” of doctors, but I do not enjoy going to them.  When I had to find one to do follow-up visits after the whole Shingles incident, I allowed them to do the blood tests and all the things they wanted just to prove I was fine, but I haven’t been back.  That doctor, who I liked a lot, told me they could get me a Shingles vaccine despite my age but they recommended I wait a few months to allow all of that bad stuff to get out of my system.  I was happy to wait.  

That wait flipped the calendar over into the chaos of 2020 and I still wanted the vaccine, but no one was really talking about Shingles at that time.  It was even kind of difficult to go to a real doctor’s office, so I happily waited.  That wait flipped the calendar over into the recovery of 2021 and everyone was talking about vaccines, just not the Shingles vaccine.  I wanted to travel and I knew that I would need to get the Pandemic Pokes in order to be allowed to enter other countries, so that rose to the top of my list of priorities.  

Add in a little procrastination and a whole lot of being really busy and it brings us to this week, sitting in a chair at my local pharmacy, waiting on the first dose of the Shingles vaccine.  I decided there wasn’t really a good day to do it so I just did it.  I had heard most everyone say that I would need to do it at a time when I had a couple of days to recover in bed.  The vaccine has a reputation for causing splitting headaches, arm pain and flu-like symptoms.  Never in my life have I found a good time to plan to be sick, so I filled out the form and sat in the chair.  The pharmacist was very nice and she even apologized when I flinched.  Luck for all of us, Blue was there with his phone at the ready to capture this moment.

My plan was to not change my plans.  My arm was sore as it would be with most any shot but that didn’t really affect any of my afternoon or evening plans.  I took some ibuprofen before bed but I always forget that I like to sleep on my left side so that was a bit of a challenge with the soreness.  I woke up feeling fine and went out for my regular 5k run which also felt great.  When I stopped running, I could feel the achiness in my muscles and joints.  Coffee didn’t quite fix it but I stayed active and the longer I was up and the more ibuprofen I took, the better I felt.  24 hours later and ibuprofen free, I was as back to normal as I get.

So this is your Public Service Announcement or your After School Special, because if you’re old enough to remember an After School Special, you’re probably old enough to get Shingles.  I don’t know the odds of you getting Shingles but I’m certain you don’t want them.  Especially Ocular Shingles.  And since you don’t get to choose where the virus will attack, it’s probably a good idea for you to look into the vaccine.  Whether or not you choose to get it is your business.  My job is simply to provide my cautionary tale so you can make a well-informed decision.  

(Not actually an old person yet?  Then you probably know how to set a reminder for your 50th birthday.  “Hey Siri, set a reminder to get a Shingles shot on my 50th birthday”.)

*if you'd like a more detailed description of my suffering from 2019, type "shingles" into the search bar on the desktop version of this blog