Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

 I was hoping to paint something for this delightful day and for Natasha's Halloween Bash but I ended up running around like a nut all day!  I hyper Extended my elbow playing tennis so I had to go see the doc and get it adjusted.  Hubby Broke out in a weird itchy rash so ran him to the doctor and then my Son's wire broke on his braces so it was off to the orthodontist...WOW!  My empty day was suddenly a mad dash.  Now the little dudes are starting to show up at my house because I'm the Mom willing to take them all out trick or treating, so I'm off to follow behind with a smile on my face.  I did get to go to a Halloween Party Saturday night.

What am I wearing this Halloween....Why Little Dead Riding Hood of course :)

As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today... Oh, how I wish he'd go away. (Mearns)


Oh Oh, I had 15 minutes so here's a quicky Day of the Dead done in Copic Sketch Marker

I'm late, I'm late for a very important date...Paint Party Friday!  Truly my favorite blog hop of the week!  I've been running to be the band lately and having a bit of Murphy's rule (car broke down, caught a cold, got called to jury duty.)  I was supposed to model for a charity benefit next week and feel rather guilty that I had to back out but with the cold and the jury duty I think it's a bit more than I want to take on right now.

I created this Fat Cat ACEO for Paint Party Friday although I have to admit he's done in copic rather than paint....LOL.  Thanks for stopping by and remember to hop on over to Kristin and Eva's delightful Paint Party Friday blog hop link list to join the fun!

Fat Cat

I'm joining Natasha May for her Halloween Party! Come Join the fun!




Also come join me for Food for Thought Thursdays!  Link up and share what's on your plate every Thursday!

Food For Thought Thursday Oct 27

What am I eating today?

I started the day with the same breakfast I eat most of the time, eggs wrapped in a tortilla with tofutti cream cheese and home made chili sauce.  It's simple and delicious and high protein which is a must for me.

For Dinner I am making Korean Short ribs and Rice with a veggie and a salad.  

I planned a little splurge of a snack today, fresh pears from the Farmers Market and a cheese called "No Woman" by Beechers.  Beechers is a handmade cheese shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market  It is a handmade cheese by the women of Jamaica.  It is an authentic jerk seasoned cheese that "May occasionally have hard pieces of caramelized sugar" in it ...sounds good to me!!  

Thanks for stopping by for Food For Thought Thursday! (follow this link to Mr. Linky for FFTT) I hope you'll play along and share something you are eating today, yesterday, this week!!

Here it is my own blog hop theme! 

#2 FOOD FOR THOUGHT THURSDAY!  

We need a Thursday Blog Hop too right? 

What are you eating today, yesterday, this week?  We wanna know!!! Share some thoughts about the food you eat and pictures are great too and then take a little blog hop around to see what's on everyone else's plates!  

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Happy WOYWW!   

This is a holiday gift Work in Progress, I've only just started the under painting and am laughing at my use of mixed media because it already has acrylic, watercolor and gouache.  I can't seem to ever work with just one medium, I guess it's not in my nature.

and for Wordless Wednesday a picture of the heart shape rock I found...YAY!  I'm always on the outlook for heart shaped objects when I'm on my walks but had yet to find a heart shaped stone.  Having searched far and wide can you believe that the one I found was in my own driveway.... serendipity at its finest because home truly is where my heart is!  I follow two different wonderful WW blogs stop by to see who else is playing!  Wordless Wednesday Create with Joy and Wordless Wednesday Cookin for my Captain.

Don't forget tomorrow is Food For Thought Thursday!  Blog about what you're eating...We really want to know!  Check out week one and details here!  Hope you'll join the fun!

Monday, October 24th, 2011

I've decided that Mondays will be my blogging Day off!

Happy Monday!

Monday!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

We made a new friend on our walk yesterday.

It was such a lovely day, I love Fall!

I saw these tree roots crawling down the hill and thought they'd be great for a creepy movie!  Doesn't it look like a tree hand coming for you!

and something for Sunday Sketches, (Follow this link to see more wonderful artistic sketches!)  a city perspective I've been working on and really like.  I think it's almost done.

Have a wonderful Sunday, thank you so much for stopping by for a visit!

Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011

Six Word Saturday:


Working on Paint Party Friday Still!

ACEO Distressed Houses
  Sold to a wonderful customer in Barcelona Spain YAY!

Friday, October 21st 2011

This week just flew by!  I can hardly believe it's time for Paint Party Friday!  So what am I painting, yikes, nothing the last few days.  My hubby just got home from a long trip in Brazil and I've been enjoying my precious free minutes with him.  I will share something done recently because it's a bit of a departure from my own style.  I was participating in a postcard swap in the style of Tracy Moore, his style is edgy, and really fun, a combination of journaling and sketching at the same time.  So here are the two that I created with my interpretation of his style. They were both done with Charcoal and Watercolor.

Wave Warrior

Thanks for the Mammeries

Thanks so much for visiting!  If you want to see what other artist are painting the hop on over to the fabulous Kristin and Eva's Paint Party Friday for a list!

and my own little plug, if you are looking to do a little blog hopping on Thursdays come by and see me for my new blog hop theme "Food For Thought Thursdays" 

Thursday, October 19th 2011

Here it is my own blog hop theme! 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT THURSDAY!  

We need a Thursday Blog Hop too right? 

What are you eating today, yesterday this week?  Share some thoughts about the food you eat and pictures are great too and then take a little blog hop around to see what's on everyone else's plates!  

Link here at Mr. Linky and join the fun!  Remember to Link your specific post not your general blog address!

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Food For Thought Thursday #1

Welcome to my very first Food For Thought Thursdays!

What food am I sharing today, breakfast.  It's my favorite meal of the day becauseI love, no, I  adore eggs!  I know they aren't for everyone, some just can't stand them and that's okay as long as you don't mind that I love them.  I seem to thrive very well on a high protein diet.  I've been a vegetarian and even vegan at one time but I had a very hard time maintaining my health and metabolism on those particular diets, even when I follow the very best recommendations.  I still work very hard to eat cruelty free and choose the animal proteins I eat very carefully!

Lately my eyes have been very dry!  My eye doctor suggested I up my Omega 3s so I'm working hard to put foods rich in fish oils in my diet.   That inspired yesterday's breakfast, Kippers and Avocado to enhance my regular morning breakfast burrito.  I used Tofutti style cream cheese a leftover from my veggie days (not literally LOL.) I came to prefer its slightly less rich taste to the original style.  Also added homemade chili sauce. It might not look super appetizing but it was delicious!  

 Today's Breakfast, a lovely and simple Frittata with fresh Parmesan, Avocado and Tomatoes from the garden, heavenly!   Whats on your table?

Lunch Today - Was out with my Hubby, Black Bean Veggie Burger with Caramelized Onion
Dinner Today - A bowl of Special K Vanilla with Almonds
Lunch Yesterday - Sushi
Dinner Yesterday -A bowl of Special K Vanilla with Almonds

Come on over to Food For Thought Thursdays and link up to share!

Wednesday, October 19th 2011

ACEOs That need to be photographed and uploaded to my Etsy store, Holiday season is fast approaching must have inventory...LOL.

WYOWW 
What's on My Workdesk Wednesday.  Well it's not too much of a mess today because I'm not in the middle of a work in progress.  I was just culling through my many Art Cards to find ones that might be worthy of going into my inventory.

It's Wednesday and I'm usually right on top of all of the wonderful blog hops that happen on Wednesdays but today I'm running behind for a really good reason.  My Honey, my wonderful husband that I adore has been in Brazil for 16 days and he returned yesterday.   I'm tickled beyond words to have him home because we are one of those enviably (or annoying depending on your perspective) happy couples.  We spend a ridiculous amount of time together and are always trying to carve out more.  I can honestly say that after almost 14 years of marriage I am even more crazy in love with him today.

We don't usually take separate vacations but this time we decided to make a "Safe" decision for our Son.  My husband is a kite Sailor/surfer, a very good one.  He gets on the water with a huge kite above his head that propels him through the water at high speeds and allows him to jump and float to ridiculous heights!  It's super cool to watch and the reason we live in one of the windiest little towns in the world.   He had an opportunity to go to a remote part of Brazil and kite sail on some "epic" waves and I sent him with my blessings.  We didn't think that it would be as wise for my Son and Myself to go along because these "Downwinders" in Brazil are hours long, hours that we would have been alone on remote beaches in a foreign country.  So Max and I headed to Michigan for a visit with Grandma and a trip to the best amusement park ever, Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.

You are invited to join me for FFTT-- Food For Thought Thursdays.  I've decided to start my own Thursday Blog hop because we need something for Thursdays too!  This ones about Food. Tell us about something you are eating, pictures are welcome.  I love to hear about what other people eat!  Hope to see you here tomorrow to get the hop started!

So here's my entry for a very wordy Wordless Wednesday.  My Hubby in Brazil.

Animal Wednesday, These are our 4 Rescue Dogs, from left to right, Bean, Yuki, Cassie  and Norman

Okay,  A little breakfast then I'm off to blog hop and pay you all a visit!  Happy Wednesday!

Holiday Shopping for Him

Thank you everyone who signed on to follow yesterday I achieved my goal of 50 followers my first month just in time!   You peeps are the best!

Well It's hard to believe that the holidays are on my mind but they are!  I'm committed to buying handmade this holiday season, How about you?  I'll be doing most of my shopping on Etsy.com.  I just purchased a really cool, real bullet zipper pull for my Son (no powder of course)  He'll love it!

I took the time yesterday to create what I hope is an unique holiday gift guide (Etsy Treasury) to help find something for that guy in your life, you know, the one that already has everything!  I hope you find something unique or interesting in my picks!  This was just for fun, I'm not promoting anyone or anything :)

Holiday For Him (Click Here for Shopping Guide)

BethBerg Photography Linked 

and if you get a chance, stop by my Etsy shop too! (Yep, I do promote me..LOL)  Here's my gift suggestion for him.  Your not allowed to put your own items in Etsy Treasuries when you create them so mine is not included in the Holiday List above!

An Accidental Heart Fine photo Print -- Tell Him You love him and keep it masculine, no frou frou for this guy!

A very special thank you to Laurie over at "as time flys by" for blogging about the art I posted yesterday.  Your blog post touched me beyond words.  As artist we all hope our art will have some type of emotional impact but to see or hear about it first hand is priceless and made me cry happy tears....Thank You for that gift!

(I guess this counts as my One Minute Writer Today too because the prompt was center.   Write about a time you felt like the center of attention.)

Sunday, October 16, 2011

SUNDAY SKETCHES

I haven't had been able to get a good photo of this piece that I've been working on called Journey to Womanhood.  This was hung on the wall and taken with my iphone.  I hope to find a black backdrop to set off the white background and pull out my good camera sometime this week but for now this will have to do.

Journey to WomanHood 1' X 3'

I layered the canvas with vintage book pages.  The titles of each page tell a story, the story of the voyage from Maidenhood to Womanhood.  The titles read: **The Maiden** The Courtship ** Somebody's Darling ** Leave her to Heaven (let her keep her purity) **  How to Avoid Housework**  An Accidental Woman ** Mrs. Who ** Mr. John Bailey Appears ** and finally in her sarong ** The Perfect Wife **

I drew the figures in black and white charcoal on top of the book pages and splashed the painting with gesso that I textured and stamped into while it was wet.

I don't often explain my art but this one tells a story about how we all wake up one day to discover we've become a Woman (or an adult for my male readers...LOL) and how as we mature into Womanhood we often are reaching back at times to get in touch with our younger selves.

Thanks for stopping by for Sunday Sketch!  Oh Oh I almost forgot, today is 1 month since I started my blog!  My goal was to have 50 followers in my first month so if you aren't following , make my day and sign on to follow!  I promise to work hard to keep you interested!  THANKS... HUGS!

Saturday, October 15th 2011

Free Your Heart , Stop making Judgments

Einstein was such an amazing fellow.  Well I don't need to tell you that, but his theories and ideas were so far ahead of the pack!  I recently read a quote of his that exactly emphasizes the point I'm trying to teach  my 12 Year old Son who has an IQ to rival Einstein's (He says to me the other day "I don't think Einstein's theory about energy is correct.  Someday I'm going to prove it.")

 
So these are my thoughts for Six Word Saturday.  A thought process I need now more than ever after having just gotten back from a visit to family.  I noticed on this trip that my family was very judgemental.  They don't say a lot directly to you about anything, but you see the frown, the tightening of a lip etc.  You know that statement is being made later,but more importantly I could feel and see myself doing it as well!

So my goal is to teach my Son by example not to judge other people!  To find the beauty in each and every person and an appreciation for how they have chosen to live this life.  Our family lives very differently than most so we will always be looked at in a fish bowl of sorts.  He's used to that and thrives on his uniqueness, for that I am thankful.  Einstein's Quote, well it says it so much better than I ever could!

Oh I didn't forget Diana's Sweet Saturday Blog Hop either!  Here's my contribution for Sweet Saturday!

Just a little fun pup in a cup I created on a coaster one afternoon.  Awwwww!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Happy, Happy Saturday to you!

 Oh Oh I almost forgot, tomorrow is 1 month since I started my blog!  My goal was to have 50 followers in my first month so if you aren't following , make my day and sign on to follow!  I promise to work hard to keep you interested!  THANKS... HUGS!

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Yay It's Paint Party Friday!

I just adore Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin, it's like taking a gallery stroll!

Thanks for stopping by!  Pop on over to Paint Party Friday and join the fun!

Here's a little Cockle Doodle Doo to start your morning off bright eyed and bushy tailed!

Good Morning!

What am I up to today...INCHIES...yes inchies 1" X 1" pieces of art.  Have you caught the inchie bug yet?  At first you're sure you just won't be able to create in a space that small but then slowly you realize you become free to create with on a simpler level, less detail and more suggestion, simple lines and uncluttered images.  I'm hosting an Inchie A Thon over at ATCs For All.  Come on by and peruse the thread to see lots more inchies.

So I was over at Laurie's blog how my time Time Flys enjoying her Thursday blog post which was a list of her activities for the day.  Not only did I enjoy a peek at her day-in-the-life but I realized that I just love to hear about what other people are eating!  Do you?...are you curious as to what other people are ingesting each meal?  Anyway, I've  been looking for a Thursday blog hop and hadn't found one that had me excited yet so I've decided I'm going to start my own!

SO here's how it will work!  Since we'll be blog hopping on Thurday and most of us like to post early let's keep track of what we eat on Wednesday and blog about it on Thursday, share 1 meal, all 3, snacks, your coffee order whatever!  Pictures are fun too!  Then on Thursday come on over here and add your link. I hope you'll come play.

I'll research how to create a button and post it this week.

Food For Thought Thursdays  FFTT!

Wednesday, October 12th

Did you miss me?  I was traveling to the Mid-West to see family.  I'm still reluctant to post obvious messages anywhere that say "Hey, I'm not going to be Home"  so you get to hear about my trips after I come back...LOL

Anyway this trip was to visit family and go to Cedar Point, an absolutely awesome amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.  Every year they turn it into a complete spooky Halloween festival.  It's pretty cool, albeit scaaaaryyy!

Anyway here a contributions for WOYWW and Wordless Wednesday, I'm a bit late to the party today but hopefully a few people will stop by.


WYOWW

I was feeling the Evil Clown needing to emerge after our spooky encounters at the amusement park.  Here's the initial sketch.  I'll probably paint it and show it again for Paint Party Friday.

Wordless Wednesday - Create with Joy
Wordless Wednesday - Carolyn

MIMS Animal Wednesday

This is one of my 4 Rescue Dogs Cassie, her nickname is Doodlebug and she is sweet and sassy, half Giant Schnauzer/Half Siberian Husky.  Here I've mounted her photo on an antique book page and painted around her.



Happy Wednesday Thanks for Stopping By!

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

It's raining this morning and I'm not complaining, we've had so little precipitation the last several months.  The nice part is that it's still quite warm so it's not "Cold and Rainy."

 I was having a little fun with an art filter on my camera and came up with these photos.

I really like this Diet Coke one because it has the feeling I feel when I see my addiction.  Sung in a high pitched single note -AHHHHHHHHHH!, the heavens opening...etc.

Addiction

and this one is a piece taken of a piece of mixed media art I was creating:

Purple Heart

What kind of trouble are you causing today?

Sunday, October 2, 2011

I posted my Sunday Sketches before seeing Sophia's post that it is cancelled this week.  Dearest Sophia my heart goes out to you for your loss, a Father such an important person in our lives and the love you have yours evident.  I wish you strength in your healing journey.


For Sunday Sketches I'm sharing more of my Rocky Horror Pieces, this one a charcoal sketch of RiffRaff.

and Frankie Baby done with Pastels

If you'd like to see the ones I did of Columbia see this post.

  Happy Sunday!  Time is Fleeting...Madness takes it toll!

And because I posted it so late yesterday:


Last But Not Least The Winner of My Blog Giveaway celebrating International Rabbit Day Last week is:




            *******PEGGY GATO ********
Congratulations Peggy!  I will contact you about sending your prize! 

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Happy First Day of October!  Can you believe it's October alread?  September really flew by for me!

It's Six Word Saturday!  SO here are my six words for today!

Creating every day is Soul Food!


and here is some art for Sweet Saturday!

Lately for me it's been about Microbooks.  Little 1 inch by 1 inch books with Miniature paintings. Here are a few I created to swap with other artistic friends.  See the links in my sidebar to participate in Six Word Saturday and Sweet Saturday and enjoy blog hopping!


Last But Not Least The Winner of My Blog Giveaway celebrating International Rabbit Day Last week is:




            *******PEGGY GATO ********
Congratulations Peggy!  I will contact you about sending your prize!