Tomorrow's the Big Day!

After many months of painting, I am finally ready for the Larkspur Autumn Harvest & Craft Fest tomorrow!! It's my first-ever solo gig with my artwork!

I am super excited to be one of 60 arts & crafts vendors this year! We are expecting great weather & quite a crowd!! YAY!

Here's a peek at what will be at the show…It's very eclectic!

A little Folk-type art:

And a little Whimsy:

And a Little Fine Art:

An this was my mock set-up in the basement to help me plan the 10x10 space!

I'm so excited! Wish me luck!

I'll try to post pix from the show very soon!

Cheers!

It's been FAR too long!

Why is it that I have intentions of keeping up with something as simple as this blog & it gets completely pushed aside? 

Could it be that I already have too much on my plate? 

Since I last wrote here… 

The Magpie has finished 2nd grade & begun 3rd! 

We stopped retail marijuana sales & grow houses from coming to our little town!

We took another trip to Branson, MO to visit Silver Dollar City again! 

Nick & I travelled to Peru, where we were tourists for a week before I headed home & he climbed a 21,000 foot peak! 

I signed up for my first solo Arts & Crafts Fest with my artwork! YIKES! 

I have become a Thirty-One Gifts consultant & loving it! 

My parents are getting older & with that comes scares like mom going into the hospital for chest pain that turned out to be nothing! 

My sister & family have been traveling here & there & now might move to my neck of the woods - only 15mins south of where they are now! YAY! 

I am on the PTO Board at The Magpie's school. 

And, I wake up in the middle of the night with panic attacks because I have way to much going on! 

Anyway, here I am, finally! You will notice that a few things are different around here…I have revamped the heading with a new logo design. There are 3 pages added at the top to tell people when & where I might e teaching or selling my art as well as a crude portfolio of works created this year.  

I hope you will browse around & leave a comment or two. 

I make no promises of keeping up these days, but you never know…I just might surprise you all! Cheers!

I'm a Feature Artist!

Today some of my work is being showcased on the Altered Pages Blog as a Feature Artist!!!

Check it out HERE!

Sharing my passion...

I can't begin to express the joy I feel when I am able to share my passion with others & teach them the techniques that I have come to love in creating my own canvases! The other night, I did just that by teaching a group of friends how to create this canvas during a "Mixed Media Mama's" night at my place:

It's so amazing to watch others take the techniques & create their own visions of the project! Even with a few glitches in tools, these ladies were amazing!

Deione & Charity having some fun!

Gabrielle thinking outside the box with a red background!

Working on the backgrounds

Rachel & Gabrielle at work

 (I am bummed to say I didn't get a final shot of Rachel's - she worked on 3 canvases simultaneously! I promise to get a pic from her when they are on her bedroom wall!)

Charity created a beautiful blended background for her trees!

Bev & Maria getting ready for the next step...

And Maria dives in!

Barb & her daughter Keri hard at work!

Michele & one other "student" ventured into different techniques.

It make she feel proud of my students & honestly, proud of myself when I see their pieces coming together! I think to myself, "I taught them that!" It's such an amazing feeling!!!

Bev's beautiful canvas!

Gabrielle, Barb, Keri & Charity's amazing works!

Rebecca, Michele & Maria's gorgeous pieces!

And of course, we had to get the kiddos into the act…no sitter? no problem! These two hung out on their own while we painted & didn't get into the act until later…

Bev's daughters playing along!

Don't you just love the colors & the freedom of their work? Their mom told me that they were inspired to pull some paint & canvases out at home the next morning as well.

I am blessed!

Cheers!

Catch-up Time!

As usual, time has gotten the best of me & haven't been back here since, *GASP,* January 18th! That's ridiculous! Needless to say, I've been busy! Here's a little snapshot of some of the artistic things I've been up to these past 4+ months…

 Remember these from my January post? I taught a class with 15 students to raise money for the school. It was great fun & I'm pretty proud of being able to teach 2 separate canvases in  a little over 3 hours! They did amazing! (got so busy, we forgot to take pictures!)

In between fundraising, I have been working in a large journal on the first 12 weeks in the Donna Downey 48 Weeks Workshop...

(The 2nd semester has started, but I haven't quite finished the first 12! Thank God she has lifetime access to her courses!! LOL!)

At the end of March, I was honored to be asked to teach a class for my daughter's 2nd grade teacher's daughter's Sweet 16! She chose to do the owl canvas above…

Collaging on our trees

My class owl

We're "owl" artists

In between all of the above, I have been working on my first commissioned piece - a 48x48 mixed media poppy canvas for a friends stairway landing! (Sorry, only a peek, because I don't want her to see it yet.)

Very hard to tell, but the flowers are made from 7 Gypsies tissue paper

In addition to creating whenever I have the chance, I have recently signed up to be a Thirty-One Gifts consultant! If you have no idea what Thirty-One is, you are missing out! They make wonderful purses, totes & organizational bins!

Cute Summer prints ready for a picnic!

Feel free to visit my website & browse the catalog! Contact me if you want to have questions, host a party to earn lots of free stuff or place an order online!

(Here)

I think that's it for now!

Hopefully it won't be so long before my next post!

Cheers!