My Granddaughter Turned 20!!!!

How can that be! Just yesterday she was the cutest little thing, chubby, adorable feet. And, yesterday, she's a mature, beautiful, 20 year old! We went for a mile walk for her birthday, along the beautiful Santa Cruz Coast. Tomorrow, we'll have her, family, and her boyfriend for dinner.

So... I've been busting my you know what, selling stuff on eBay this week. Didn't have as much time for art work as I had hoped.  But here's a collage of Brit I did this afternoon. It doesn't look quite right. But I'm bushed. Don't know how to fix it.

Sweet blessings dear friends.....

It's kinda funny....

Well, I can hardly get into my little art studio! I've been furiously making mini albums, throwing scraps every which way, digging through papers and not putting them back... you know this hap-hazard style of creating, right?

So, I branched out onto my writing desk in the corner of my bedroom. I promised myself I would be tidy. What's up with this mess?? What's up with me?? Still messy. Laundry on chair needs to be folded.

It is kinda funny, don't you think?

A few pictures of this week's work....

I'm hosting a baby shower for a first time mom this Saturday. This was fun to create....
All of the papers I created myself on Photoshop. I also used an abundance of stickers from my stash. I think it's cute. Do you?

Newly listed on Etsy: Turning It Over Chunky Prayer Book

"TURNING IT OVER"

It's often hard to remember to do that!

Here is a sweet little chunk prayer book I recently made. It includes 8 pages, each with tucks and pockets filled with over 50 interactive Prayer Cards... lots of room for journaling your prayers. Each of the 50 Prayer Cards hold special affirmations. My favorite: 

"Hello, This is God. I will be handling all your problems today. 

I will not need your help, so have a good day."

Book is made from recycled toilet paper tubes! Spiral bound. A Neat and nifty way to pray. It measures about 3x5" with lots of tags and ribbons flowing over.

Felting Soap and MAIL ART!

Okay... so I've been busy this week, mostly listing things to sell on eBay. But I've also been making felted soaps to sell in my shop (Boulder Creek Antiques & Art)...and! a tutorial to go with a "DYI Felted Soap Kit. 

The fun part of the week has been getting lovely MAIL ART from my friends on Blissfully Art Journaling. Thankyou Shay (in Australia), Annelie (in Holland) and Stacy (in Warren Michigan)! See pics of all below.....

Mail Art....

Well, we're home again, and as always, I hit the ground running. So here's the first chance I've had to post pictures of the mail art I did on our vacation. The idea came up in one of my Yahoo groups (love that group!) and poof... out of my mind was my Madonna/Goddess paintings! This was so much fun! I wrote a short Haiku for each card. Started with a piece of 300lb watercolor paper and did a number of acrylic color washes that felt like the ocean, greens and blues. Funny thing... the post office said they were too stiff and charged me double plus something. But it was worth it. Next time I'll use cardstock, or hey, maybe a real postcard!

A FUN week!

This has been a really fun week. Usually I travel alone, and I love it. But this trip, hubby felt up to coming along and we've had so much fun.... doing almost nothing. Nothing by fooling around with a little art, or mostly, sitting on the deck over the ocean reading, drinking wine coolers, and eating local cheese and bread. That's the life!

Oh... then, there have been a few visits from old friends who live somewhat local to Depoe Bay, Oregon. My highschool girlfriend Karen drove 2 hours from Eugene to visit. What a hoot.... we didn't miss a beat since we saw each other last about 25 years ago. We both still wear our hair like we did in 1965. Oh... and she brought along her highschool boyfriend who she reunited with after 45 years! How sweet is that! Today they are in love and happy.... I'm so happy they found each other again.

And last night our friends Nina and Hugh arrived from northern Washington (six hour drive) to spend today with us. I'll post pics tomorrow.

So, no more art today.... just visiting and relaxing with dear friends.

Blissed out!

Whoops.... I've been so blissed out that I forgot I have a blog! Hubby and I are up here in Depoe Bay, Oregon, right on the coast!

Loving every moment, every sound of the huge winter waves at high tide.


 

And here is the amazing MOON SETTING from Sunday morning.

Yesterday was cloudy and rainy.... but the mighty Ocean Muses kept me happy at my little art table. What a view! rain or shine!

On the right is one of my faces from Tam's class. I'm taking her LIfe Book class, but didn't take a picture of that first painting. The one on the left is from All Norah's Art, Sharon's Faces in Collage. I REALLY REALLY like the way she turned out. This is Hestia, the Greek Goddess of home and hearth, eyes turned heavenward offering the gift of fire to keep our hearts warm.

Today's going to be another FULL DAY of painting! Just loving it!

Namaste and Sweet Blessings.....