Trying To Blog Again

Wow!! It has almost been a year ago that I blogged. Like a broken clock my body quit ticking, a trip to the emergency, lots and lots of Dr. visits. I am a medical mystery!! The holidays came and went!! More things happened to our family that would take forever to talk about!!

On a lighter note!! My grandson's are all growing up and up!! Ben the handsome 9 year old rebel artist, skater,biker, guitar kid. Ben making new friends at his new home!!! Little brother handsome Cole and I have to add is the number genius. Cole will be 5 in November!!! Cole can write a million on the chalkboard and knows its a million of something!! He is a wizz with numbers!! Oliver is now 3 and thinks hes the boss of me!! Little brother Owen is learning how to walk and talk, he just turned one. I watch Oliver and Owen 5 days a week and they run circles around me!! Oliver is a budding artist!!

It has been a busy year for me. I have had several things published!! I need to take the time and list every thing and show off all the photos!! Here are my Prima and Postage Stamp shoes. they are in Somerset's newest Altered Couture. Also in that issue I have an article on my Black Velvet Safty Pin Dress and Jacket!!

Guess What I Saw At Joann's Fabrics?

I seem to live at Joann's Fabrics. I was working on a handbag to send in on a Somerset Haute Handbag call, when I looked at their magazine rack and I counted 4 of the Stampintons magazines that my art is in!!! I stood there and felt that dizzie feeling for a minute. You know that feeling when time stands still and you have an outer body experience??? Wow ME!!! I know it will never happen again, so I have to talk about it.

The magazines are Weddings 3, Newest Belle Armoire, Somersets Holiday & Celebrations and last is the new Altered Couture!!! I only have 2 art items to be published in the future. I keep missing dead lines because life gets in the way. I never sit still, yet I always feel I'm running behind. I dropped all my art trades as they took up so much time. Right now I'm trying to figure out what to alter for the next issue of Altered Couture??? Plus I want to be in at least one of their Sew issues. I did send off 2 of the most Wonderful Darling Handbags to them yesterday. One of them I made all by myself from scratch. My daughters thought it looked very "Hippie Sixties". I Loved it, and will use it when it comes back home to me!! I said a prayer as I shipped them off. There was a new guy at the "Help You Mail" store and I didn,t think he taped the package good enough. I kept asking for more tape and he just told me "Don't Worry", famous lasts words I heard when a huge shipment of my jewelry got lost. I also had under insured the package of Beautiful Jewelry and it took a year to squeeze the monoey from the shipping co. I will be on pins and needles until I get the arrival postcard!!!

Heres my newest addiction!!! Paperwhinsy Collage Sheets!! I sat up half the night making 4x4's and listing them on my etsy for SALE!!! They are so cute!!! I Hope they are a hit on my etsy site. I always need money to make more things to send in to magazines. Lets face it, my house looks like a craft store!!!

Great News!!!!! I'll Have An Article In Somerset's Weddings 4

Amanda Nolan editor of Weddings 4 Loved my new Wedding creation!!!! I had a Beautiful spread in the last issue!!! How could I top that???? I made a curtain for my daughter-in-law Christine's Craft Room. My son David and his wife have been married now for 9 years. There Wedding was very small and Christine wore her favorite color??? I'm not going to tell what color it was, but not a triditional color!!!! Now I have to re write the article for the Wedding Curtain that has their wedding photos on it. My daughter any now calls me the Art Cloth Collage Wedding Expert!!!

This weekend Amy and I went to the" Walter Larsen Antique" show. Of course we found lots of pretty and fun treasures we had to have!!!! I was on the hunt for inexpensive Cabnet Photos of Babies and Pretty Childeren!!! I found a lot of photos and not all were inexpensive!!! I found lots of Keys!!! One can not have enough keys!!! I plan to put them in necklaces for my etsy shop. Also bought a lot of beautiful fabric trims as did Amy. We had so much fun!!! Amy has a great eye for finding deals and great treasures!! She spotted a hat box from an exclusive, expensive huge boutique called Makoff's. Wyoming oil Barrons wives shopped there for the finest furs, couture clothing, hats, shoes and jewels!!! The box only cost $2.00, it probably cost that to make it in 1965. They sold the most wonderful shoes in all the world!! Can hardly wait until next year when the Antique show comes back.

I recieced my jewelry back from Somerset that didn't make the next Jewelry call!! I was sad of course. Every time I wear the pieces I'm pawed at by women who want to know where did i get them??? I just sent in another batch of jewels for the next call. I think I'm not creative enough for their jewelry magazine, but I will keep trying until they like some thing!!! My Motto is "Never Give Up"!!!! Hugs!!!!

Where does The Time Go????

Two weeks ago I was in Las Vegas. I lost some money and did a little shopping. i Love Las Vegas!!! They have the best shopping, you can window shop forever!!! I fell in Love with some jewelry that I couldn't afford!!! Earrings are over a hundred dollars. We stayed at the Paris again, Love their food and shops. It was nice sleeping in, after all We went to bed around 2 or 3 a.m. Playing the addictive penny games, that really cost dollars.

I've been working on things to submit to Somerset magazine. I always have a hard time making up my mind what to make. Typing instructions takes me forever!!! Every once in a while my art gets in an issue!!! Yesterday i found out a piece of mine will be in a featured article!!!! I can hardly wait to see that issue. It will be some time next year.

I went Christmas decoration shopping with my daughter Amy. The store is so Big!!! Filled with every thing anyone could want or buy for Christmas. I was in Love with their themed trees. I think there was a dozen or so!!! We found things we couldn't live with out. I Love all the sparkly things. I even bought a huge faux bird egg and nest. I'll sparkle up the nest!!!

Back to making jewelry to submit to the next Jewelry issue.

My Bird Tag!!!!

For the Birds!!!!!

Somerset Holidays.....Me!!!!!

Hi!!!! To my surprise I recieved my issue today!!! I'm on page 48, an entire page. As always I'm high as a kite when I open one of Stampingtons magazines and theres my ART!!! I Love the little Heart Cage my friend Tamara Comerford sent me for my birthday. I turned it into a collage of me when I was 2 years old. I'm crazy about Hearts and have them all over the house.

The Holiday issue is Wonderful and I want to make many of the beautiful art pieces for me, my house. Next week I will be looking for all the things I need to make the fun and beautiful art in this issue.

The week has flown by. I wanted to get started on Oliver and Owen's Cowboy quilts. I need to get them cut out and quilted soon.. Once I have the boys here I will be much to busy to sew. My daughter Amy and I also bought some Cowboy flannel. With the flannel I can make Baby Owen some bibs. Owen's very messy when he drinks his bottle and has Colic. His mommy, Emily had colic and I thought I would never live through all the crying. It seemed to last for months. I can hardly wait!!!

Posting a photo of My Wire Heart, hugs!!!!

Me!!! Artchix Home Page!!!! Wow!!!

Its so fun to see my art on the home page at the Artchix Yahoo group!!! I remember when I first learned how to use a computer and type (Hunt And Peck) typing, I found the Artchix Yahoo group. There was only a few posts a week. Then a year later that all changed!!! I've meet and become friends with so many other artists there. The people who are part of the group are all talented and some of them are even Famous Artists!!!!

I Love that Artists who have very busy lives take the time to share their art and encourage everyone to show off their art too!! I've also learned from the Artchix shop website. I was invited to teach an online class, me!!!! It was fun and hope others are using my techniques I shared. Not to bore you all I'm loading a phot from my online Artchix class!!!

Have a great day!!!!!