Playing with Melange on Etsy!

My first time playing in the weekly challenge.

Theme is FUN!

http://melangeonetsy.blogspot.com/2009/04/mix-it-up-with-melange-challenge-fun.html

You find the neatest stuff on blogs!!!!

I just know you will enjoy this blog post! Kathy gave me permission to post her link. 

Wait until you see this tree!!

Have a great weekend!

http://kathymcelroy.typepad.com/stories2tell/2009/04/tree-project.html

MAY DAY

FOR ALL TO ENJOY VIEWING!

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KATHY LOPEZ

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BARBARA B

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MY FLOWER BOOK

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THANK YOU ARTIST FOR MY TREASURE BOOK!

My new CD from Lunagirl!

I just got a new Cd from Lunagirl, Victorian Edwardian Vintage Ladies Photos #2!

So many divine images to play with!

This one is as is!  Oh the possibilities!!!

Jan didn't mention this!!!!

Oh dear!!!!!!!
I put them to bed in the guest bedroom for some rest and quiet!
Pretty soon the visitors started arriving!

Jan, do you have Blue Cross?????

Well the boys are back from 13 months of traveling and are taking a well needed rest with me before they resume their World Tour!

Remember the snow pictures of them that Jan took? They were so funny in their hats and glasses!!!! 

Well, when I opened their traveling box, look at how they arrived!!!!!!!

Painted suitcase!

Before I started painting on canvas I did flower paintings on watering cans, and small furniture pieces. I got this suitcase 20 years ago for $1.50 at the thrift store. I knew it would make a perfect surface for painting with ordinary craft paints. I needed something to hold my garden catalogs. This was when I spent a lot of time in the garden. I loved planting seeds and seeing what  appeared 4-5 months later!

Flower favorites

for-get-me-nots, morning glory(heavenly blue),bachelor buttons, red and white geraniums , delphiniums, CA poppies, pansy and johnny-jump-ups, stock, sweet peas and SUNFLOWERS!

Thanks angie!

Angie surprised me with this Karma award. For bloggers who aim to find and be friends.

I have admired angies multi talented and carefully executed art from several years ago when I joined Artchixstudio. She was always encouraging me with her comments and I have learned so many varied techniques from her. This award from her is quite touching!

thanks angie!

I decided to pass this award on to some special people I have met and gotten to know thru my blog.

Tristan at Enchanted Revelry http://tristanrobin.blogspot.com/

Terri at Pringle Hall http://pringlehill-terri.blogspot.com/

Joanne at Ad Libitum  http://joannethiemehuffman.typepad.com/

Lenna at Creative Lenna http://creativelenna.blogspot.com/2009/04/paris-bookmarks.html

Mary at Green Woman Creating http://greenwomandesign.blogspot.com/

I have met some incredible artists and the list could go on and on. I am always so thankful for the generosity of artists sharing their ideas  and offering help, encouragement and expressing their positive remarks of my art. 

Angie's ART & FULL Life

My latest ART and the things that inspire me and FILL my li

Late night collage!

So, I worked in the garden all day and planted seeds, tied back bulbs, weeded, fed the roses, and general tidying up! It felt good to be outside!!!

I missed doing some art. I was garden inspired and decided to put together a 7"x7" collage!

I used a color copy for the background of my monoprint and added collage sheet image and some stamps.

I call it "hope"!

Finishing a project I started in 2005!!!!!!!!!

Uncle Paul had these 2 books.
1907  published

I was just starting out with Yahoo groups and joined my first, Decoupage with Durwin Rice. I learned so much with this group about cut, paste, finish. One of the ladies in the group had pre cut ready to finish placemats. They were the perfect size for the pictures in the book. I thought it wood be fun to do a set of 8 using some of my favorite illustrations(mostly of dining) . Well, I finished 3! It is very labor intensive to get it put on nicely and then I have to add at least 10 coats of varnish so they are stain resistant.

I am cleaning out the drawers in the dining room and found them. So, I promised my self to finish this project! Copies have been made of the originals and all I have to do is size them, cut, decoupage and varnish.

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be sure and click on the pictures to see the awesome pen and ink drawings!!!!!!

Good lord!!!!!!