Wednesday, November 15th, 2011

Well it's hard to believe it's Wednesday again already!  Well what's on my Work Desk? WOYWW   (go check out the list and see whose making a mess today over at the delightful Julia's from Stamping Ground!)

I've been busy, busy doing torn paper pet potraits.  The orders have been coming in rapidly since I created Wendell for the Humane Society Auction last week. I have to admit that I love doing them though.  Lots of fabulous doggies I just want to smooooch.  I haven't had a kitty order yet but I'm hoping to do one soon too!  On my desk a work in progress, his name is Brewski and I hope to have a nice picture of him as a finished piece of art to share for Paint Party Friday, if my canvas order ever gets here.

As you can see working with torn paper is a messy job!

I was also putting the finishing touches on a sweet Asian lady mini canvas I am painting as a holiday gift  for a Secret Santa exchange among the staff of  ATCs for All (which I am happy to be part of.)  I can't show you a close up just yet since it is a "Secret Santa" gift, so she's just peeking out of the top left corner of my table. 

I hope your Wednesday is wonderful!  For Wordless Wednesday Create with Joy and Wordless Wednesday Cookin for My Captain and Animal Wednesday here is a picture of Brewski my model for this weeks pet portrait commission, he is so ugly, cute I can't stand it!  I feel so fortunate a commission to create this lovable fella!

It's snowing hard in Hood River today, our first day of snow and it's coming down at a rapid pace and sticking!  It's so beautiful, isn't the first snow of the year the most special!  I also just saw a hummingbird at my feeder, snow and hummingbirds are not a common combination to be sure!


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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Well I'm off to Jury Duty, so a short post for WOYWW and Wordless Wednesday.  My hubby and I took a hike up Dog Mountain over the weekend and the entire hike provided me with heart shaped rocks at every turn!  Romance must have been in the air because I saw at least 25 heart shaped rocks.  I brought home a few I will photograph later to share but these two were too large to abscond with and hike the distance that I had to go, so I snapped a quick pic with my iphone to share with you all.  I think they are spectacular!

I don't have time to upload my work desk but what sits on it is the rest of the heart shaped rocks I found, A paint jar full of water and lots of packing tape and bubble wrap because I had to ship a canvas off to auction pronto yesterday afternoon!  Which I will post Friday for anyone who wants to stop by the blog and my Paint Party Friday Friends.  I will stop by and visit your blogs when I get home tonight. Have a great day! 

Stop back tomorrow and link up to my blog hop Food For Thought Thursdays.  Post a short blog about what you're eating, what you like to eat, well any darn thing that has to do with food!  I hope you'll join me as a follower too, because followers make me happy! I promise to try hard to keep you entertained!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

It's Wednesday, one of my favorite days of the week!  There are so many spectacular blog hops on Wednesday!


WOYWW (Stop by and see what everyone's work desk looks like!)  Well mine is covered with a good news/bad news scenario.  Our local art supply store Bella's had to close it's doors because it could no longer compete with the internet prices.  I enjoyed the owner immensely and will miss dropping by to say hi.  I shop locally when I can and probably spent half my art budget at the local store but certain items were just too expensive for me to buy locally and then I'd resort to the internet so that I could have a coveted this or that supply.   Anyway, the going out of business sale garnered me these wonderful items and truly $3 copic sketch markers ....WOW!

Also interspersed with my new supplies are a sugar skull I created yesterday for Day of the Dead and an Inchie that I framed.  Can you believe you can get Inchie Frames now!!!  Also some Diet Coke pop tops so I can enter my codes to get free stuff and a pattern template for a little Owl stuffy I hope to make soon.

Fun things to do with inchies, a pendant and a frame. 1" X 1"

There was another corner to my desk but it has to stay in hiding because they were Secret Santa presents.  I'm on the staff over at ATCs for All and we have a Staff Secret Santa swap going on.  I'll share those items after they are received and opened by the recipient.

Wordless Wednesday I do two -stop by and  check out the blog links! Wordless Wednesdays Create with Joy  And Wordless Wednesday Cookin for my Captain and last but not least Animal Wednesday!

Umm What!

Okay this is Anana's Boutique in my little resort town.  They have been having a bit of trouble with there sign!  I've mentioned it to the staff/owner a couple of times but they don't seem to mind I guess!?!  I see the people stopping and cracking up to post it on the FB pages.  I even had some friends come to town and ask what type of shops we are sporting in our town!

Bean and Yuki

This is Bean and Yuki they were both rescues.  Puppies that had come out of a Puppy Mill and where going to be put down because they had expensive medical conditions.  Bean has an auto-immune disease of the eye and Yuki had Parvo at 5 weeks and was on death's door.  I am happy to say 14 and 13 years later they are both happy, thriving little beasties that provide loads of love and lap cuddle time!

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you'll think of signing on to follow me!  Please stop by tomorrow and join me for Food For Thought Thursdays, my very own Blog Hop!  Blog about what you're eating, snap a quick pic of your breakfast, snack, an exciting item at the grocery....let's just talk about food and share a bit of what's on our plate.  Can't wait to share a meal with you!

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!

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!

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!

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Well it seems Wednesdays are a happening day in the blog world!  I am participating in:

Wordless Wednesday***WYOWW***Animal Wednesday

So welcome to everyone blog hopping from those events!

My contribution to Wordless Wednesday is "An Accidental Heart"  My Son and I were talking a walk on our visit to Grandma's in Florida and came across this heart shaped dried up plant frond.  I think it may have been shed from a nearby palm tree.

(This image, like all of my art, is a copyrighted ...please respect my ownership of this piece. Thanks so much!)

An Accidental Heart
For Wordless Wednesday

For WYOWW Wednesday I've created 3 Heart inchies 1 x  1 inch works of art.  These were done with watercolor and ink. They are still on my studio table because they are going to become a microbook.

Every Inch of my Heart

For Animal Wednesday a picture of one of my 4 rescue dogs, Norman, on our walk down at the river. He has the sweetest soul and happiness for him is a tennis ball and sleeping with our Son. Which I hope to capture a picture of soon.  Now normally I wouldn't let an 85lb dog sleep in bed with my Son because it's a bit crowded and Norman is quite the shedder, but our Son started sleepwalking about a year ago and I was really worried he'd get hurt wandering around at night. When Max wakes up he bumps into Norman trying to get out of bed and instead of getting up he rolls over and continues sleeping  in bed.  A perfect solution!

Norman Reflects

So happy Wednesday!