I'm Off!

Hello Friends,

I'm off to the beautiful white sandy beaches of the Jersey shore. I will be back on the 18th. I am leaving my shop open for the week so all orders will be shipped as soon as I return.

Enjoy your week and I will be back with lots of pictures of our seashore adventures!

New Work and a Winner!

Hello Friends,

First I wanted to let you all know that I added some new goodies to my shop. Some are a little bit silly like these...

ATC set

and these...

Brooch set

And two more mermaid paintings. This will be it for the mermaids this season because it's Halloween time in the studio, yay!

4 x6 mixed media painting

8x10 mixed media painting

And the WINNER of my 200th Blog Post give away is.....

#16 Janel!!! Yay, congratulations Janel. I will send you your journal and other goodies today.

Enjoy your day!!

After the Holiday

Hello Friends,

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July. We spent the day with good friends swimming, eating BBQ and watching fireworks. As Alex put it..."This was the best day ever."

We leave for vacation next Saturday so I have lots of things I need to get together this week. The studio has been quite lonely since the kids finished school but we have been having so much fun reading and going to the pool that I can't complain. Pretty soon I will have too much time (Alex will be in school for the whole day...sniff, sniff) and I will be wishing my little boys were bugging me for snacks and telling me they're bored. I'm trying to enjoy every single minute.

Well, I'm off to get my hearing tested. Ugh! I always have anxiety about these tests like I'm in school again. I've never passed one, ever, so I should be used to it but I guess some things never change. A hearing aid or two are in my very near future and I'm not sure how I feel about that either. It's not that I'm vain and I don't want people to see me with a hearing aid but I'm not so sure they will be comfortable to wear. I don't like a lot of stuff on me. I wear diamond stud earrings most of the time and I always misplace my wedding ring because I take it off so often. God only knows what I would do with a hearing device. I'm not even 40 yet!

Don't forget to leave a comment below to win a little gift!
Enjoy your week:)

200th Post Celebration!

Hello Friends,

Yay! This is my 200th post. Who knew that when I started this blog 200 posts ago that I would still be plugging away? Not me , for sure. I have to say that I have so enjoyed sharing my stories and art with you all and I'm so grateful for all of the blog friends I have made around the world...amazing!

So, in appreciation to all of you who stop by regularly and leave comments- and all of you who secretly read, too shy to leave a comment- and to you who just came across this silly blog by chance... I am giving away a little prize to one special winner.

A 5" x 7" lined journal featuring one of my mermaid prints, a set of hot pink polka dotted note cards and a set of the cutest little binder clips.

Just leave a comment...any ol' comment will do. I will pull the lucky name out of some sort of hat next Wednesday. Good luck!

New Prints in the Shop

Hello Friends,

What a sad week for the entertainment industry, huh? I remember cutting junior high school to watch "Thriller" on Mtv with my two best girlfriends. Shhh, don't tell my mom:)

Maybe in Heaven he'll get to enjoy that childhood he seemed so desperately to have missed.More proof that life is too short.

On a happier note, I have added two new prints to my shop. I continue to offer my prints at the very reasonable price of $12.00 in an effort to make art affordable to everyone.

You can check them out here.

Don't ask me how I stumbled upon this fine specimen but I felt like he was something I needed to share...

Wipe the drool off your chin girls...he's a looker.

You have to give him some credit for the artistry of a clean shave.

Enjoy your day!

I'm off to Target to buy an electric shaver...hubby and I have a busy night planned;)

New Swimmers and an Announcement

Hello Friends,

The sun still hasn't shown it's face in NJ this month but everything is as green as can be. That's the positive I'm trying to put on this depressing weather. It figures that the very first season that I try to grow vegetables, we have zero sun. I guess it will be interesting.

See that tiny little bumpy thing? Don't strain your eyes. It's a cucumber, yay!

Tiny little tomatoes.

The lavender on the front walk is going CRAZY! I snipped some and hung it in the shed for making sachets later on. We'll see how that goes.

Some kind of wee critter is nibbling on my sweet potato vine but I kind of like the lacey look:)

More blooms from the yard.

When we first bought this house 9 years ago, there was nothing. Just some overgrown evergreens and a few hostas. So I'm very pleased that everything I have planted over the years is finally filling out the beds and look beautiful.

New vintage swim couple.

SOLD Thank You!!

I worked on these two yesterday. I just love painting this swim couple so I decided to paint them a more "formal" portrait. They are painted on wood plaques with French corners. I painted the sides gold and gave them a slight antique glaze. I should have them in the shop later this evening.

*** They are now in the shop***

And now for the announcement....this is my 198th post, and you know what that means?

200th POST GIVE AWAY TIME!

This is a biggie so I will have to come up with something special.

Don't you think?

Check back soon!

Have a great day:)

Feeling Fishy

Hello Friends,

First I want to thank everyone who commented on my Father's Day post. I was having a blue day and you all made me feel much better.

SOLD! Thank you!!

Second, I want to share with you my new mermaid painting. This one just happens to be a mer-man and mer-maid deeply in love, deep in the sea. I had a lot of fun just adding layer upon layer of texture. This one is 8" x 10" on a piece of up-cycled compressed wood that is about 1/4" thick. I really do prefer working on hard wood surfaces as opposed to canvas. You can find it here.

Well, just 1 1/2 days of school left for us and than watch out summer, here we come! If only the NJ weather would cooperate. It's been raining E-V-E-R-Y day this month and it's not doing anything for my mood. The skies cleared long enough this morning for me to take my walk and I was delighted to see that my secret blackberry bush, hidden in a bike trail that I take, was full of delicious fruit. I filled up my hands with as many as I could carry and ate them on the way. Sorry birds, you can have the ones that fall on the ground:) Not ten minutes after I came home did the rain start again...ugh! So if anyone has a little too much sun for their liking, please send it my way!