Art of Mine

 Hi Sweet Friends... Yay!!! Lets welcome Spring time with open arms!! I am sure we are all ready for springtime!! I know I am! I wanted to share with All of you some of the items I have added to my booth recently. I thought the Herb plant stakes would be a great item to herald in spring time planting. Don't you?  How about a sweet little birdie house for your kitchen or mantle??  Isn't this little enamel bird the cutest thing? I found them recently being sold in a set of 5. They are actually magnets, but I saw other possibilities!! This little bird house sits atop a crystal candle holder!!! How "chic' is that!! Lol!!! Let me introduce you too little Miss "Pinky Bunny"!! These are my adorable "Bunny Easter Jars"!! I came up with this idea when I found these cute little stuffed bunnies recently at a flea market for a whopping $1.00 each!!! I brought them home and sat them on my mason jars on my craft table...

Top O' the Mornin To Ye.... I'de like to wish you All a very Happy St. Patricks Day!! I am proud to say that I am 1/2 Irish on my fathers side of the family. My fathers mothers family came from northern Ireland and ventured across the Atlantic to America in the 1800's. This collage page you see here is actually a piece I did with the "Artfull Gathering" class I was in with Nancy James Maxwell last summer. We were to create a book and a keepsake box to keep the finished book in. This lovely young lady was my fathers sister, my Aunt Julia. The little line across her forehead is actually a little curl she would do with her hair. This picture of her was from a newspaper article for a beauty contest for "Miss Bronx"!! Julia entered many beauty contests and eventually became a dancer in New York City with the Gertrude Hoffman dancers and danced on Broadway. In 1925 after a show they did called "A Night in Paris", the w...

 Hello Sweet Friends..... I was wondering if you would like to take a walk with me today....it's such a beautiful spring day.  The temperature is perfect.... I have my comfy shoes on...looks like you do too!  Look how beautiful the flowers are... They are so lovely!!  They remind me of happy children opening wide there arms and taking in all that life has to offer... Sunshine...warmth.....just what we needed...right?  Look closely....nature is wearing it's finery. Delighting the senses and beckoning us on... to explore further...Lets go!  A garden walk is just what we needed to refresh our minds, body and soul...don't you agree!! I think the Red Bud trees will be in full bloom very soon!!! I think it's funny to call them Red Buds...when they are purple...oh well, pretty just the same! Thank you for coming with me on my walk today.... Lets do this again very soon.....A cup of tea would be really nice about ...

Hi Dear Friends, Hope you all are doing well on this day. I have been working on a journal cover lately and so far very pleased with the way it is turning out. I am so very fond of the romantic side of the Victorian era as well as the many vibrant colors of that period. If you research the Victorian homes of the day you will find they would paint their homes inside and out vibrant gorgeous colors. One of my favorite style of homes were the ones with gabled roofs, ginger bread carvings of intricate detail. A victorian home on the outside could be painted with three or more different colors. My journal cover emulates the vibrant colors of the Victorians and celebrates the beauty in their lives that surrounded them. Their gardens were also vibrant and alive with vintage Roses, Lilacs, Foxgloves, Delphiniums and Poppy's. Tell me what you love about the Victorian era.....there is so much that they contributed to our world and we still to this day use man...

 Hi Sweet Friends, Hope all of you are having a good week so far. I have been doing a bit of resting lately as I have a lot of pain in my right hip. I have Bursitis in the hip and if you have ever experienced the pain from bursitis you will understand. Prolonged walking makes it more painful. I did have a cortisone shot in my hip about 4 weeks ago but it wore off quickly. Ahh well enough about that!! I am showing you something that I bought at an estate sale a while ago. It is a revolving/ tilting wooden picture frame, which sits on a weighted stand of rather hefty metal. The inner frame that turns over was rather wobbly.  I have had it on my work table for awhile wondering how to bring it to life once again. On the same table I have a couple of baskets with lovely doilies...and the thought came to me to  incorporate the lace with this frame. I used an automatic staple gun to attach the doily, added some bits and bobs and Viola'!! ...

Hi Dear Friends, First I want to share with you a little peek at something I am making as a gift to someone!! I am making it in all their favorite colors...something I think they will really love!! :) So what have all of you been up to? I have so many talented followers out there. Some are painters, some embroider, some love to collage with fabrics, others collage with papers. Jewelry makers, journal making.....etc. There are so many mediums out there in the art communities that my head goes dizzy with so much to look at. For instance Pinterest! I "Pin" I like pinning...but after awhile my head is spinning with so many pictures...I must stop!! There are all forms of addictions as we know and I find I am becoming addicted to looking at so much lately...ughh I must resist the Force...hahaha I do not want or need to keep looking! So I'm going to pare down my time spent...looking at stuff and just relax..read my Nook books which I have abo...

 Hi Sweeties!!!! I hope your day is going well for you!! So I have a new Love.....Chalk Paint!!! Have your heard of Anni Sloan chalk paint? Well I found some in one of my favorite Antique malls.  I became smitten immediately! The fun part was you could buy samples to try it out. I bought two colors...one is called Aubusson Blue and the other is Chateau Grey. The grey is not really a grey...it reminds me of the Italian villas that with time the grey turns a bit green from moisture.. so lovely!  The large silver plate tray was painted in both the blue and the grey. I also added a stenciled bird in the middle using the Aubusson Blue. Both the tray and the stand are sold together in my booth. This little tray I found in an estate sale,  it also had  no chance of escaping the chalk paint I had also bought this old fork at the estate sale which was really really grungy...so I cleaned it up a bit and thought it would go so wel...