Artful Experience!!!

Teaching classes is something I dearly love! And the students are BEYOND terrific! The artful experience of Art & Soul was again filled with the LOVE of SHARING, HUGS from FRIENDS, and every breathe fresh from CREATIVITY!

Each class, every moment is a memory that I have lived over and over since my returned home.

Tracie and I began this adventure with teaching the Painted Nature Fabrics. Each student created a most BEAUTIFUL piece...filled with color and unique creativity! Tracie has the pictures for this class on her blog, so please visit and gaze at these treasures!

Next we taught the Yummy Fused Papers. The students were eager to learn and the results speak for themselves. The bookmarks and tags were made using pressed botanicals from my garden. The gift wrap papers are just BEAUTIFUL also! Wouldn't you love to get a present wrapped in these?!!

Here are some of the LOVELY creations these ladies did on Thursday evening:









































Friday began with a meeting of our Nature Gathered group. Jan Harris, Andrew Borloz, Paula McNamee, Bee Shay, Cynthia Mooney, Tracie and I loved the "coffee" talk" and planning for our future creations. I feel so humbled to be in the group with these talented artists.




Friday....Tracie, Jan Harris and I went to visit Katherine Dunn at Apifera Farm. What a TRULY LOVING lady! She is as giving and kind as her blog reflects! We loved seeing her studio where she creates and then the walk out to see the animals was FANTASTIC! These captivating creatures see Katherine and they come running! She loves each one and you can sure see the love is reprocated. Here are a couple of pictures we took with Katherine......





















Later on Friday evening we taught the Lusious Layered Fusion Fabric class. The classroom was filled with talented artists eager to begin creating these BEAUTIFUL fabrics....










Sadly Saturday morning we had to return. My day job as a Medicare manager required that I return to those daily duties, however, the memories, fun times, new and old friendship have a SPECIAL place in my heart!

By The Sea

Well, I have been creating away in my studio....making schools and schools of fish.

My Inchie swap goup will be exchanging INchies at Art & Soul which starts this week. YEAH!!!! So since the theme for Art & Soul is "By the Sea" I decided to fish would be perfect! As you can see fish are on my INchies........






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Here is a sneak peek at the fish I have been creating for my INchie artists. They are pockets to hold the INchies we will be swapping.......












I ABSOLUTELY LOVE making a surprise for the swaps!!! The INchies are ALWAYS so BEAUTIFUL that they speak to me and ask for a SPECIAL way to be displayed.















Can hardly wait to arrive in Portland.....What FUN I will have.

Tracie and I will be teaching but best of all I will see MANY of my Friends!...

Drop by and say "HI!"

PLEASANT SURPRISES

Today was a day for pleasant surprises in my mailbox. As I opened the mailbox and saw an envelope I knew right away it was from my dear friend, Lisa Engelbrecht. Her envelopes are immediately identifiable with the Beautiful calligraphy she does. I so admire her WONDERFUL talent of the written word.




She send me this magnet with this cute little guy. Isn't he darling?












My next surprise was receiving the Autumn edition of "Haute Handbags". A couple of my knitted "Ma'Dam" bags are featured in the gallery section. But here is the best part of my surprise - Mary Stanley's bag is right across on the opposite page! She is another favorite artist of mine and I am THRILLED that our bags are opposite one another.




Who knew the mail delivery could brighten my day so much?!

Please visit my etsy shop to see more of my knitted handbags.

From Gloomy to Simple and Elegant

It has been a bit cloudy and rainy lately so in the words of Eyore,
"OH, What a gloomy day." Rather that let it get me down and adopt Eyore's mood, I decided to do something to brighten the day a little.

Since it was a bit chilly cooking something in the oven came to mind - What to cook? I thought a roast sounded good. In my hectic schedule I am always looking for something to cook that doesn't require a lot of time.




I peeled some potatoes then covered the roast with seasonings, onions, garlic powder, potatoes and carrots. Popped it into the oven. Fixed some frozen green beans with real bacon bits, onion and seasoning and began to let them cook on the stove.



Off I went to create.... Fun time, you know!




When all was finished I thought it would create a romantic, yet simple dinner to take a bottle of wine from the fridge and set the table with my good china. That I did.


What a Beautiful way to end a "gloomy" day! Eyore would say,
"OH, happy me!"