Well well well what do we have here. We have a mess. Yes sometimes I make a mess. I decided I did not like it so much. So I picked it apart and I will start all over again. And it will be on top of this mess.  Thats what is so great about mixed media. Even a mess can turn into something beautiful. You know what is funny years ago I would have thrown this out but now I am going to make something beautiful out of it.  You'll see.  It is just a wonder how I have changed as an artist thru the years. It is constant growth.
It is all about the journey.  See you tomorrow with movie night!!!!

My Girls are leaving me!

My girls are leaving me. I just finished the frames. It is time to let them go into the Universe and make someone else happy. I hope they find a good home. There new home (until they are adopted) is "Hello Bluebird Boutique and Gallery, 609 Penn Ave,  West Reading, PA 19611. Wonderful shop.   I know Alex will take care of them until they find there new homes.  Don't forget to visit them if you are in the area. I will also have prints there. 

Bye Bye Girls!!!!!!! 

I told you I would be doing some more Halloween paintings. I have been so busy with other things in the works. How exciting.  Anyway, this will probably be my last for a while. It took me a while to complete.  I would do a little here a little there. My sisters kept on coming up stairs in my studio to see if I had done anymore work on this . I love that they get so excited to see what I am up to. So I decided that I better get cracken because Halloween is right around the corner. Also Steve is turning 50 this year on Oct 24. So we are having a bash. So this will go nicely on my mantle in the diningroom.  Oh how I love Halloween!!! I tried to make them look a little ghostly.  I say it is a self portrait of me and Steve. Except I don't have green eyes and Steve doesn't have a mustache and my hair is not grey(thank you hairdresser) So really it doesn't look like me and Steve at all. Oh well.

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”


 - Chuck Palahniuk  (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist)

Two for the Road - 1967 - Trailer

MOVIE NIGHT

I just adore Audrey Hepburn! (who doesn't) but for some reason this is my most favorite of all her movies. Maybe it's the music, the young Albert Finney(so sexy)or just watching beautiful Audrey Hepburn. This movie really shows the ebb and flow of a marriage. It is a very beautiful piece. Very melancholy. This may be my most favorite movie ever. ( I said maybe. At this moment anyway)

Journal Page/Trust your feelings

Trust your feelings.  If things feel good then they are usually good. If things don't feel right most of the time they just are not right.   I look back at things and I think all along I felt that something just wasn't right but I got involved in something I just knew I should not get involved in. And found out it just was not the way to go. Or when I meet my husband I knew it was right the first time I meet him.  And I still know he will be with me forever.   Learn to trust how something makes you feel. You know what I am saying. Feel it in you gut.

FLYING SISTERHOOD N/E

(From left) Silvia, Ivy, Nelly, Me, Heidi,

(Bottom row) Beth, Beth, Louise

(And also Ann-Marie Still not in picture)

We all took the Kelly Rae Flying Lessons ecourse and someone started the Facebook page and then Louise organized the get together in Hoboken. The funny thing about that is that before this was supposed to take place. I kept telling my husband I was moving to Hoboken.  Hmmmm.  What does that mean???

Anyway we had a lovely time. Everyone seemed to click right away.

What a perfect day!

In Hoboken looking over at NY, NY on the Hudson

The girls walking with our bags that Silvia made. Perfect gift with our new logo on it.

Thanks Louise for hooking us up.

Hopefully this will be the first of many hookups.

Getting Ready for Halloween and Day of the Dead!

 I am getting ready for Halloween and Day of the Dead.

I did this skull awhile ago. I am painting some plastic pumpkins also.

Last year I saw Suzi Blu and Alisa Burke painting skulls. So I did my version of a painted skull for the Mexico holiday "Day of the Dead"If you ever want to take some on line classes these are the girls to take them from. I have never taken any Alisa Burke but I have heard great things about her. If you go on her blog Alisaburke.blogspot.com she is very generous with her art and she discusses a lot of recipes(which I don't cook)  and sewing (which I am still a little frightend)

And  Suzi Blu. Ahhhh I Love Suzi Blu. She is the funniest most entertaining of all my blogs that I follow. She is just herself which I love. She makes me laugh. Her website is suziblu.typepad.com. Or you can go on Youtube and watch her videos. She is just a funny little girl from NJ traveling around in her Gypsy Wagon(aka trailer).

 Love Suzi Blu.

If you are interested in taking any art classes there are so many people on the internet giving coarses. So many that I don't know them either. Just keep on searching you will find someone teaching the kind of art you are interested in. Everyone likes different art. What speaks to me might not necessarily speak to you. Just do what you feel.  If you really love art try it! Take a coarse. Just do it!!

Mosaic's

Not many people know I work at an insurance company during the day and I am an artist at night.  Well anyway I am usually in a hurry when I go in and out of the building but I finally realized that I was in a building with the most beautiful mosaic works. Isn't it funny how you take things for granted. These mosaic are from top of the ceiling to the floor. We have 5 floors and each one has one. I took pictures of them. The top floors came out great because the sun was shining threw but the lower floors not so good. You just can't see the beauty. The artists name is Lenoids Linauts from Mohnton PA.  I tried to google him but I could not find anything. I am assuming that he is an Amish or Mennonite. Because the name is definitely PA Dutch. If anyone out there knows anything about this man please let me know. Thanks. Check them out!

Gorgeous!

This is also a quilt that is hanging from a wall. Floor to Ceiling.

Very lucky person to be working at a beautiful building as this one.

A Raisin in the Sun (1961) 11/14

Movie Night

This is one of the great movies. I know I did one of Sidney's movies before but this one is one that has to be seen. The acting is fantastic. It is one of the first main stream all black cast movies. Quite a ground breaker.

They did a terrible remake of this with P Diddy of all people. No one can compare to Sidney. Order it on Netflix.