New Giveaway & Bouncing Baby Bunnies!

A New Giveaway!

To thank you for your sweet comments...

For all that you share~

This is one of my watercolor designs on a

garden flag... size 11" x 15"

New in the package...

Just leave a quick hello on this post and

your name will be put in the basket!

Drawing this Friday... April 1st

 

Going to add some bunnies to my Etsy shop!

Can't stop drawing these little furry friends~

Wishing you joy!

Sunday sketch~

Hope your week is off to a great start!

Wishing you grand smiles and loads of great news~

Spring Tote Bags...

I just brought a bowl of peels, stems and cores

to our compost pile for our wild bunny~

Perhaps a SPRING cap, scarf and mittens would have

been a better treat for our little friend!

The Robins are hoping for a quick melt~

Added some Spring totes to my Etsy store!
Vintage dresses are almost finished...
They will be pressed and photographed soon~


I leave my sketch journals open~
They're always stacked in messy piles...
Sketches, jots, ideas and notes fall out when I flip through...
This little friend was sketched while I waited in a
doctors office... on the back of an atm receipt~
His little face makes me smile!

Hope your Spring day is filled with joy~

Feathers Flying...

Mild days have warm, brisk winds whipping up

dried fall leaves from the flower gardens...

Our cats are running from window to window

trying to catch them! Knocking over everything in

their way of "the big catch!"

I took our pup outside to brush (more)

MOUNDS of hair off... I already saw a little bird

pick up a tuft of it and zip away...

Better lining their little nests than ours! (giggle)

I find some of the most beautiful little nests

on windy days... tossing across the yard like tumbleweed.

I have been promising vintage baby dresses

and linens... I must apologize...

We have had several crazy-busy weeks.

I am thankful for every crazy moment with our teens...

For I know so very soon~

They will leave the nest and there will be

plenty of empty moments and time to catch up!

I have oodles of notes to write back to, so many of

your sweet blogs to visit and catch up on...

I am hoping for studio time this weekend!

Hope your weekend is sweet, sunny and fun-filled~

Thank you for all of your comments and cheer!

Sunday sketch and prayers...

Praying for Japan...

Praying for miracles!

Wishing you a wonderful week, sweet friends~

Treasured Friend...

The best part of blogging...
Making new friends!
Some are a few towns away, or other states...
I've met people all around the world!!!

This dear teddy belongs to my friend
Ellen (Netherlands)
She purchased this vintage dress from me
for her treasured childhood teddy-love...

Thank you for sharing a picture with me, Ellen!
I hope you will visit her beautiful blogs~
(please click on the picture or her name)

A small collection of Spring-themed
Vintage dresses are almost done!
I'll share pictures here before I list them on Etsy.

Wishing each of you friendships around the world
and a wonderful weekend!

Dance of the Teddy Bears & Birds...

We have bright blue skies and sunshine!

I love being in my studio again~

It was an addition... a summer porch.

We converted it into a studio.

Winter winds and frigid temps. keep me

at the dining room table, living room chairs... etc.

Most of the time from December through March.

This morning, in the cool shadow of the house,
there was a little bird perched atop an icy snow pile.

Sitting very still, looking up at the larger birds...

If I could sew (and keep her) I would dress her

in a little polka dot piece...

They could have a spring fling...


Teddy friends would be invited...

Tea and seeds would be served!

My favorite soundtracks playing...

Miss Potter, Finding Jane,

Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Secret Garden...

Hope the sunshine has inspired you!

Here a bunny... there a bunny...

Dressed up bunnies!

With every snow storm I seem to become a little

more determined to rush spring~

We have enjoyed a little bunny friend all winter.

Our furry visitor lives near our garden compost...

Beneath the Forsythia shrubs~

Carrot ends, celery bases, cores... rinds...

All tasty snacks that we toss out a back window

to share while the winter winds continue to cover.

Our friendly rabbit will visit our gardens...

As long as I plant enough~ we can share!

My Etsy store is brimming with little faces!
...at least one tidy spot!
My studio has been a disaster for weeks as I have
been researching, painting, mixed media, carving...
A touch of mad-scientist in my blood~

Hope your weekend is perfect... and a bit messy, too!

Little Feathered Friends in Dresses...

These sweet little girls are in my Etsy store...

All dressed in little spring dresses!

I remember getting a new dress each Easter~

This little tomboy would clean up for one day each year!

Mom would dress my sister and I like twins.

(She is four years older than me)

Tall, thin... olive skin... hazel eyes...

My chubby cheeks are covered with freckles~

We're as opposite as they come!

The pictures look sweet... my oldest sister

made most of our Easter outfits.

I was always tickled to have a new stuffed bunny!

(Even more tickled when the dress was put away...)

These feathered friends seem to like

their little dresses~

Hope you like them, too!

Wishing you a wonderful week~

Happy Valentine's Day & Sunday Sketch...

Wishing you love, friendship... laughs and joy!

Happy Valentine's Day~

I will draw a name from the hat later this evening

for the giveaway in my previous post...

You're not too late!

Giveaway! Baby Bird & Nest Art...

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

~Sweet Springtime Bird and Nest~

Two original pen and ink illustrations on fabric!

Please leave a comment on this post to enter.

Name will be selected on February 14th!

I know our feathered friends will soon be

building cozy nests...

I feel as if our winter "nest" is getting a touch

of cabin fever... yet another snow "event" on the way.

"Event" does make it sound a bit more chipper...

...I think it's time to begin sketching nests,

songbirds and all things fresh & spring-like!

Ooodles of new sketches will be in my Etsy shop soon!

Hope you have a wonderful week~

A new sketch... a gift & planning a giveaway!

A little late with my Sunday sketch...

My Sweet 17 is a joy!

She has a way of making the young, old and

everything in between smile... with her smile~

Little Man 14... well, he gets them to belly-laugh!

I'm a bit behind because as the snow piles high,

So do my deadlines! I'm having a great time

painting several new watercolor programs!

Or as a close-artist-friend stated...

"More goodies for the lazy artists to copy?"

I keep painting because it is what I love to do.

I license my designs because art should be seen.

I have not figured out why other artist

steal ideas, designs... programs... not just mine!

I feel sorry for them.

The joy of art is in the uniqueness!

I LOVE that MY art is one of a kind~

FRESH from my mind...

From my heart...

If certain artists try it too many more times~

My lawyers will be filled with joy!

Onto happy thoughts!

This GORGEOUS TREASURE arrived as a surprise~

A mug mat made by Donna...

Please visit her creative blog Brynwood Needleworks!

I wrote a little note to Donna that I will be framing

my gift~ we have kitty cats that adore

finer things in life and they would consider

this beautiful treasure a perfect nap quilt!

They have cozy beds...

Our laps in the evening...

This mug mat is a masterpiece for my studio!

Thank you, Donna!

A GIVEAWAY!

I've been trying to figure out what to do...

We have reached over 1,000 Etsy sales, Sweet Friends!

I will announce the new giveaway tomorrow...

I'll try to make this one extra-special!

Hope your day is safe!

This has been a very...

eh, what's the word...

very...

PERSISTENT!

Winter........

(smiles!)

Sunday Sketches...

POST UPDATE:

Many of you have asked...

YES!

These have licensed and will be in stores!

As always, sweet friends~ thank you for your

sweet comments, support and for respecting

my original designs...

They are copyright protect... and published.

I will post about the cool products soon!!!

I have a sketch book for this...

A Moleskine journal for that...


This is a special diary that helps to keep me focused.
I want to hear the message~
I wish I could sit nice and make eye contact~
There is so much to see!

The gorgeous sage scarf with the pale mustard polka dots...
Three rows up~
The light patterns on the walls that begin
to look like design elements... or is that an elephant?
The sweet, rosy cheeked, baby that adores his momma
and cannot stop looking at her loving eyes!

I am visual.


When I draw...
I hear the message and learn~
because I'm not distracted.



I'm sure the top of my head is not all that fun
to look at. I try look up. I am interested in
everything the speaker has to share!
I will hear and retain more... if I draw.
I doodled in my notebooks all through
high school and college...
The teachers were not amused...
I tried to break myself of it...
I hear more this way.

So thankful our children
are able to focus better than their mum!


Thought it would be fun to share my Sunday Sketches...
Each Sunday I'll post a new scripture~

Hope you have a fantastic week!

Love banners...

I hope your weekend is filled with...

Love...


Love...

Love!

Sharing some love...

Hope all of you had a wonderful weekend!

Sweet 17 and I were at a friends house, helping her

sort through years of treasured collections...

As she prepares to move into a very small apartment.

We always love visiting with her...

Listening...

To where she found some of her favorite things.

How she risked life and limb at auctions!

Traveled states away to dealers...

Her visits in Shaker communities...

The most amazing, odd, rare and unique goodies!

We have purchased from her through the years...

She shares with so many~

She is finding her way through this downsize.

"These boxes for the college... this one for the antique

dealer... this one here to a brother, that one a niece...

Libraries... nursing homes..." she is a treasure!

The greatest treasure~

Her love!

We will have to find new projects in our future

visits... perhaps we will scrapbook, organize & journal!

Her heart and mind are filled with stories

we want to preserve for a very long time~

Hope your day is filled with love~