Art of Mine

 Dear Friends, I have been busy making a "Mug Mat" this week. I entered a swap over at Donna's Blog! Please click onto the picture on my side bar for more info!! There is still time to join this great swap which is open till February 1st.! As a few of you might know I love to draw and paint. I made this little Blue bird with Oil Pastels and pencil. I would like to make a series of birds for a nature journal this year. I will post a different bird as I go along throughout the year to show you my progress. I am self taught and not an expert by any means. I just love doing it thats all. I also wanted to share this darling little pillow with you...(which I did not make). I found it at my favorite Antique Mall and think it is just so adorable!! Don't you? The key is vintage as well as the fabrics. One of my obsessions is collecting small plates, saucers, etc. I found these lovely little plates last weekend. The one with the raised blue flowers is rather hefty in weig...

Hello to All, I am hoping your Friday is going well for you!! I have been puttering around my craft studio and decided to make some cards. I have been making cards since I was a little girl. I use to write to my grandmother Elsa who lived in New York. She and I wrote to each other for many years. Both of us saved each others letters and before she passed away she had sent me all my little cards, letters and drawings back to me. I had to laugh because when I was very little I would write and draw very very big...and when I was about age 12 to 14 years old...I wrote so little that you almost needed a microscope to read my handwriting. Poor Grandma would write to me and say please write BIGGER!!! I wanted to share my cute little French card with you all today. I made this late last night and did a little sewing on it today!! I was in France once..... in "Charles Degaull Airport". At the time I was living in England and I wanted t...

Hello Dear Friends!! I wanted to thank All of you for your healing words of kindness and your Prayers. I awoke this morning with a calm peace in my heart and feel much better. The situations have not really changed...nor are they known to me at this point in time. I will trust in the Lord in All that I do although at times I may cry out to him....well it's alright there are reasons and good ones too, for on the sidelines work is being done to settle all situations in the most perfect timing...His timing!! I am puttering around my craft room today, looking through my buttons, and threads and being forever grateful for all things that come my way. Life is a forever learning process and I am grateful to be here to learn as much as I possibly can. Love You All, Susan xxoo

As many of you know I have been trying to plan a trip to go see my family back east. So far we had a pretty bad ice/snow storm down here in Ga. last week. My husband and I were going to try again this week. Yesterday after church I received a call from my oldest son....that my daughter-in-law and little Lucia would not be available when we were going to be there to see her.....also, some more bad news that I can't disclose here right now. I will have to wait till probably towards the end of February now maybe...because my husband will be tied up with work as well. There is more stuff.....but, again I can't say anything at this point in time. It is so very hard to be far away from your family. When you have grandchildren they grow so fast and so many things you miss out on. Pictures are great but there is nothing like holding them and hearing them and being close. If I told you all the things I have gone through over the years with family you would probably wo...

Hello Friends, I received in the mail today the ATC from Jane Wetzel my Swap buddy for January. I wish my camera could pick up all the detail in this lovely creation that Jane made. The word Exquisite is probably the only word in our language that can describe it!! I think both our lovely "Snow Girls" look perfect together...what do you think???  Whisper soft doth snow flakes fall...gently doth the winds that call winters song a miracle.      author: sjm

 Hi Dear Friends, I have had Hearts and Love on my mind for a few weeks now and knew I had to make something to satisfy this need to express it creatively. I made this little pillow to fill this need to express my LOVE to my Family to my Friends to Everyone all over the world. All of these little red buttons form a heart shape. They need each other to be able to show LOVE just as we need each other to be able to express our LOVE.                                                                                     Show a little more LOVE to All whom You may mee...

Hello Dear Friends!! I wanted to share with all of you the newest ATC I made for the Blissful ATC Swap for January. The theme this month was "White/Snow"!! I never thought "how" apropo this theme would turn out to be!! I used Glitter Sheets by Petaloo for the background which I affixed to a blank ATC card. The next layer was the beautiful little girl image. Next layer I scattered some dimensional snowflake stickers from the EK Success Boutique line. The next layer I used over those three layers was a Hand silk-screened clear transparent sheet called "Frosty Snowflakes" on top of the layers. I used Clear Gel Tacky Glue as my adhesive for the multiple layers. I also added some trim between the two bottom layers to act as a frame around the outside edges. I also scallop cut some of the white glitter paper to add a small frame to the edges of the transparensy and little flat back pearls for each corner. My wonder...