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Welcome to my blog! I hope you enjoy your visit with me today. I have just baked some fudge nut brownies and have a pot of cinnamon orange tea brewing ,hmmm can you smell the cinnamon? yummy! Come in and visit for a while. While your here please feel free to participate in the One World One Heart fun!One World One Heart Giveaway has begun ! This brilliant idea came from and was created by the hostess of this event is Lisa at "A Whimsical Bohemian". The idea is for bloggers all over the world to visit and connect with one another. Swap ideas, share our stories and encourage our peers.
Last year I spent many enjoyable hours visiting all the different blogs, and decided to join in the fun this year.
For my blog giveaway I will be offering one [1] Victorian Santa ornament that I designed for The Artistry of Poland Design contest. My original work was recreated into a hand blown glass ornament. The winner of the blog giveaway will receive one signed ornament.
To enter it couldn't be easier, just leave a comment on this post... that's it! Oh! be sure to leave your name and your email address, should you be my lucky winner.
All this fun ends on February 15Th when the winner will be drawn at random. If for some reason the winner does not contact me within 3 days , I will draw another name. thank you for visiting today and good luck!~Susan~
I am so excited I can hardly wait until Tim Burton's version of
Alice in Wonderland comes out! The color and imaginary on the Disney official website captures my imagination! So much so that I have started creating Alice figures.... baby style. Alice is almost complete along with a wonderland butterfly baby. I have already sketched out my ideas for the Queen of hearts baby, Mad Hatter , and the Caterpillar. So much fun! Watch for the WIP's I hope to post some today. ~Madly in Love Susan~
You should know that I am doing the happy dance right now! My studio is CLEAN!!! yes I finally beat it into submission , after numerous hours of painful sorting , tossing, and general cleaning. I am sure when my husband goes to clean the vacuum out there will several unhappy expletives coming from the garage, but I'll just hum louder to drown him out!I am pleased to note that I remain , Galadriel, I mean Susan, I passed the test. I tossed everything that was readily replenished like the massive toilet roll collection,the bits of material too minute to really do anything with but thought I could use it for something??Paint bottles that contained the tiniest bit of paint known to mankind, paint brushes that had 2 scraggly bristles left ,assorted bits of broken pottery .... well you get the idea.with a bright newly cleaned studio I am ready to get back to work, actually play, can you really ever call art work? And good news I found my remote for my Ipod system AND my tv which been missing in action since the holiday rush to finish everything up. Which means I can be surrounded by music again,oh happy day. Life is good when things are clean and every thing is in its proper place. many happy sighs! Susan
Amelia's Sweet B Folk Art and Lori from Retro Rudolphs are hosting a birthday! Clink the links to the right to be included in the fun! We will celebrating these two talented ladies birthday's! ~come join us in wishing them both Happiest of Birthdays! ~susan~
Well, I procrastinated as long as I could, the taking down of Christmas trees ,wreaths, Santa's is always a sad time for me. Tucking away all my favorite beaded ornaments and collectible figures I have founde over the years. I love the way our home glows with soft twinkling lights, sparkling ornaments , and my Santa collection displays. I would leave them up all year round if it weren't for the dried up Christmas tree and people thinking I was just a little odd. LOL who am I kidding, people already think I'm odd! I managed to clean out my laundry room today, which is a catch all for things that don't have a place or in this case , wrapping paper, tissue, bows, plus several finished gourds and just plain old junk! Throwing things away has always been hard for me , everything has possibilities for future art projects, however I have come to realize if I don't start throwing things out I will be up to my blooming arse with this stuff! I'll be like the people who pass away leaving 100's empty milk cartons or some such stuff for others to deal with. Besides there's always going to be new things to replace them. Maybe even better things! hmmmm. Tomorrow, I tackle the most dreaded room of all.... My studio! music should be playing here, the scary dum.. dum... dum.. the one that plays right before the unsuspecting victim opens the door to the spookiest room in the house. This would be my studio. I started to clean it last week, moving things around but its still out of wack. I need my studio to make sense to me. I let it take on a life of its own and now my beast has to tamed again. So I will have to rearrange furniture and just plain put things away before I can do anything creative in there. I can't have fun until my work is done! Phooie! Wish me luck as I go to do battle~ Susan~
I promised myself I would do several things differently this upcoming new year.1. work on my blog more2. concentrate on putting more work on Esty & Ebay maybe have a selling site.3. take few classes to learn new techniques4. Clean my studio, which is a total wreck, actually that should be number one!5. and finally get rid of excess junk. I am sure those of you who are artists, will understand number 5. The "I may be able to use that" attitude that keeps me from throwing away anything I think might have use for somewhere down the road. Since I am a cancer this is even worse for me as I can't seem to part with anything! I currently have broken pottery, thinking I might be inspired to do a mosaic of some sort one day. hmmmm yeah that ain't gonna happen! I have been saving toilet issue rolls for some time now, and while I do haul them out and create some darling little 4Th of July pieces and Halloween candy tube thingies , let's be reasonable here , how likely is it that I would experiance a shortage of those?I have tons of floral picks, I hate flower arranging, what was I thinking? I save boxes, tissue and packing wrap. I have patterns that I haven't even opened. I 'm thinking spring cleaning craft sale on EBAY. My husband, who is a notorious neat freak, refuses to place one toe into my studio, he totally doesn't understand how I can work in such utter chaos and to top it off , I have been sorting through material so the guest bedroom is sort of disaster too. Now I am getting the LOOK. If I don't start getting the guest room in order I am sure I will soon get the Look and the complaints! Sigh! I have successfully put him off for now as I have told him that I gathering things for end of the year donations. oops! almost outta time on that one! Guess I really need to kick it into high gear tomorrow! Off for now! ~susan~
First, let me just say Thank God! I don't have to fly anywhere to spend the holidays with my family! Now that things are settling back down, I've spent the last few days reading the Twilight Series. I am not a fan of the vampire genre, however, I couldn't put these books down. The writer captured my imagination on the very first page. I will continue to read everything she writes from here on out. I only have a few authors that I would crawl over burning sands to buy their books, my favorite being Jayne Ann Krentz, Stephenie Meyer will now be added to that list. And Robert Pattison will always be Edward to me now that I've seen the first movie...... Oh if I were only younger! sigh! But there's alway Johnny Depp..... Winter came to Salem Oregon today we received 2 to 3 inches of snow, our weatherman was wrong again! Shocking! Although it did make for a wonderful day to snuggle down , drink hot chocolate with lots of whipped cream, or in this case cool whip, and watch old movies. I had no where to be or anything I had to get done. The perfect day! I hope your day was uneventful and peaceful. ~Susan~
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