Art of Mine

My Dearest Blogging Friends, I can not find the words to express how much Joy and Happiness that each of you have brought into my life. I have found great friendships here in Blogland and I am so grateful for each and everyone of you for your lovely comments and support. My birthday is this coming Sunday the 8th. of August and I wanted to share it with All of you!! I love all of you and Thank you so much!! If you remember a few posts back I had shown you the Shabby Garden Flower I had made and told you there was more to come...well I made a very special Pillow that this flower is attached to.  I have also included a wonderful little Garden Chime that you will be amazed by it's beautiful sounds. I had also found this adorable Garden cup for you, I thought it was so cute! I also included a lovely little china dish with beautiful Blue Roses. To enter the Giveaway I will make it as simple as I can for you. You must be a follower or become one to enter. ...

scan0005 Originally uploaded by sjmcdowell Hi Dear Blogging Buddies!!! I entered another ATC for the second Blissful ATC Swap. This time my swap buddy was Wendy. Our swaps theme this time was "Orange"....Ughhh I thought...I really really don't like Orange!! I almost gave up and thought I would not be in the swap at all when I thought well "what" in the color of Orange do I like? The only thing I really like that is orange are Pumpkins....OR...the Japanese Koi Fish!!  I looked through my stash of stuff and found a picture of some Koi and then painted this litte fellow. I had painted the pond first  and then painted the cute little Koi on a seperate piece of paper, I then glued the little guy down on top of the water....and so there ya go!! I think he came out sooo cute!! Anyone want to name him??? Ok folks LISTEN up!! My first "GIVEAWAY" is happening very very soon!! So watch out and stay tuned....don't leave town...

scan0006 Originally uploaded by sjmcdowell Hello Blogging Buddys, I wanted to show you my second ATC I made recently for my friend Jan over at "Laughing Dog Arts". I found out that Jan likes to trade ATC's and so I asked her if she would like to do a Swap and she said yes!! So I made her this one. I call it "Evening Flight"....I had this little scrap of a butterfly I found somewhere and part of the right wing was not even there and I kept it for a long time thinking well one day I will use it in something...so while I was hunting through my stash I found this little guy and I also had a scrap of a flower too that went with it. So I got out my paints and just started painting. I glued the butterfly on the edge and instead of gluing the little paper flower on I painted what the flower looked like on the bottom. Jan has already recieved it and loved it, so I felt it was ok to show it to the rest of you now!! Hope you like it too!! When I get the ATC that Ja...

Hello All, Hope your day is going super great! I have been wanting to share with all of you a pillow and a lovely story that I had given to my swap buddy Mary when we did the Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something Blue swap over at "A Swap For All Seasons" this past June. We also had to include a Vintage wedding photo as well. In my search to find "The" perfect vintage wedding photo my husband and I searched the suburbs of Atlanta and my search took me to one of my favorite antique shops in downtown Roswell. I had asked the ladies if they had any VWP and one lady said she thought they had one in the corner of the shop so she went over to find it, a few minutes later she said they must have sold it. My husband started looking in the same area and told me to come over to him and he pulled out this wonderful photo he said "will this do" ? Oh my, be still my beating heart! YES I said. Later that evening I had said to my husband that there...

Hi Dear Friends, It has been awhile since I posted something I have made and so I thought I would show you my lovely "Sea Shell Soap Box" that I finished a few days ago. When I received my lovely shell cuff bracelet from Diane Knotts a couple of weeks ago it was wrapped up in a beautifully decorated soap box. I had never seen anything like it before and thought I would try my hand in creating one as well. So here it is...the shells are from my trip to Florida two summers ago now and even the little sea grass I had salvaged from the beach and glued some on as well. I used a gold leaf pen to highlight both of the shells and around the scalloped edge of the vintage picture. I glued some pearls (not real ones) around the scalloped edge of the picture too. The paper I used all around the box is from the Ancestry.com line. I used some netting as well to frame the picture....which reminded me of fishermans netting. To keep the lid on I used some tiny velcro rounds to keep it...

My Dear friend Mary sent me a letter and hang tag the other day and I wanted to share it with you. Mary and I met when we were picked as Swap Buddies for "A Swap For All Seasons" in June. We have remained good friends since the swap. I never knew what happiness blogging could bring into my life. I also want to thank my followers for taking the time to visit me and comment on the things that I make or pictures that I put up. I will be having a "Giveaway" soon,  I have been blogging for a year now...WOW, I did not realize till the other day that a whole year has gone by already since I started blogging!! I have loved every minute if it!! I love EACH of YOU and THANK YOU to All!! Susan

Wishing you all a very nice weekend!! Love to All Susan