Bernie and I met on Friday and went to the TACA art show at Centennial Park in downtown Nashville. The weather was perfect-the artists were incredible ---but bestof all was Cordillia---the little 4 month old baby that Bernie brought along. Recently Bernie helped close down a local puppy mil--they removed over 700 dogs from one place--and this cutie was among them.
Goddess Diana-one of my closest friends in this world, has been studying to be a Mom---Goddess does not do anything until she has studied and practiced and has got it "right".
I'm in a swap with 119 other artists on techniques........this is a sample of my faux batik with a little "bliss" glitter thrown in.......can't wait to get my book back!
i'm "nifty fifty"...................it was a wonderful day--spent with Kenna, Kris, Dad and Esther--Alan, Jason and Goddess Diana called with birthday wishes--Thank you All......and Thank you for all the birthday greetings through the world wide web..............
this is a necklace that i created....the bottle is there to hold essential oil....today's choice is peppermint. we are covered in smoke here in Northern California and i am sending out healing love to everyone touched in any way by the fires.....so scary and so devastating
Kenna and I are heading west on july 1st............we will be in Sacramento for 3 weeks! I am really excited to see my Dad, stepmom and my Best Friend Kris!!!!
My Papa-I loved him so–he always worked in a hardware store and I loved to go visit him there. It’s probably why I love hardware stores and tools so much today. He used to take me to the ice cream store and sit me up on the counter and and fill a little white bag with candy-yum. Our favorite flavor was chocolate shower…..He always hung out in his garage just fiddlin around–and listened to country music. Funny after growing up in Sacramento, CA and listening to country music I would be living in Nashville,TN!
I used one of his old watches and his picture standing in front of his garage as the center piece and put some hardware pieces inside of the watch. The dangle has a fishing lure piece, cause he LOVED to fish and a blue fabric bead-as blue was the color of his eyes. I called him Papa,so I made the metal tag, and there is an old key—-He was always cutting keys at the store…my wire wrapping is a bit rugged this time because I wanted the hardware/wire to really stand out..
I made this necklace to remind me of the bliss that the beach brings to me, with abalone, coral, a dolphin, a starfish…The turquoise stones represent some of the beautiful turquoise waters that I have witnessed ..in Florida, Hawaii. Mexico…..off to the beach in my mind….
my good, talented friend Pattie has a new blog called "the buck starts here"..she has been shopping at the dollar store and found some cool items to art up! she made an awesome work of art out of a dollar note book--and challenged her readers to do the same--so here is my dollar notebook--i got mine at michaels-they have a great dollar section too. thanks Pattie-what's next?
