artwork

another exercise from the journaling workshop, mixed media

winter up date

It is and has been bitter cold-single digits. I do get warmed up with all the wood splitting and hauling and carrying it in for the wood stove which I am about 10" away from.

Please come out and play with me...

Christmas tree in Macy's, Philadelphia

Zora- Mixed media portrait

The blanket is finally FINISHED!!!

and good night!

Happy Holidays!!

Happy Holidays to everyone.

From Miss Olivia

Zora in the rain

Zora in the rain with her new umbrella.I hate calling it a shadowbox or a diorama but don't know what else to call it. A shrine to her cuteness?

more journal pages

Me, Myself and I

Dear diary

value study

Vintage Photos

more to come...

Journal pages from "Embrace Yourself" workshop

Some journal pages
from Misty Mawn's workshop "Embrace Yourself"

My work space

Positive and negative space

what matters most

ABC's of You

A day to celebrate and what is going on

A day to celebrate two years since I received the gift of life transplant. Thank yous go out in many different directions...xoxoxo

And now what has been going on...

Page from the art journal from Misty Mawn's workshop

Another page

Miss Olivia enjoying the snow storm

Miss Olivia lounging around

My daughter when she was little at Easter

Cardboard Dollhouse

The Dollhouse is getting close to being finished. I have been working on furniture. There have been many times I have said " why didn't I just buy it" 

Next working on the cardboard furniture:

Finally making some headway on the furniture for the dollhouse. The bedroom furniture is almost finished. The bed will have posters with some sort of canopy and the closet needs the doors painted. It has a tiny drawer in the bottom and so does the vanity which also needs a stool for it.

I have more photos to post tomorrow and some artwork but they are on the other computer so until tomorrow...

Doll house progress

This is what has been happening besides getting all my Easter listings finished for Vintage Lindy Lou on Etsy

Primer coat of paint

Close up of one of the rooms- circus pictures, crocheted rug and a little banner that is laying on the rug but will be on the wall. I found circus pictures, printed them to fit and then cut them out and mod podged them on the walls. I also did that with other rooms with different pictures. For one of the walls and the floors I scanned and printed patterned paper and also mod-podged over it.

Hope to be adding better photos showing the inside of the rooms

testing on a very cold wintry almost spring Sunday

Hope you enjoy this trying something new to see if copying music from Youtube will play on my blog (or web site) I thought it would be inspiring for when I am working on my art journaling workshop - Embrace Yourself with Misty Mawn. Well as you can see it did not!



Here are a couple of journal backgrounds I did to be ready for the journal lessons.

This one of the lessons about writing and learning about yourself - going through each letter of the alphabet and choosing words that best describe yourself and positive /negative space with the art journal page. I started out with each letter being a negative adjective! so I had to work on looking at myself in a positive light or maybe what I would like to work towards being.

Today I will be working on the next lesson and I AM going to finish the papier mache and a base coat of paint on the  cardboard doll house.

I know Spring is almost here

Miss Olivia and the Snowy Day

Craft Club this week, We all made a wreath and each one was so completely different. 

This is mine

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