My new and fun blog friend held a mail art exchange over at

acreativedreamer.blogspot.com

it was so fun can't wait to do this again!

And being that June is so creative and generous she sent all the participants a piece of art she created!

And Here It Is ......

Excited to receive my art in the mail and it is beautiful!!

Check it out .... woo hoo and there is a little tea bag in it also!!

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So now for the drum roll here is the one I made and sent to

cherieblogs.com

Memorial ride to honor fallen NC State Trooper  Bobby G. DeMuth

came though town today was able to stand outside and give our support!

Yesterday I was able to visit the Steel Magnolias Garden Club Plant Sale

bought a beautiful Hosta and very great smelling Lavender plant.

The Handmade Market

Great day visiting The Handmade Market lots of great items to see!

Check out their website to see more designers and hopefully you'll get to visit the next market!

http://www.thehandmademarket.com

First Visit was with Pascale's Studio what great art check out the cute prints!

Next I visited with Meagansmark what great Homespun Creations & Hand Illustrated Designs!

Scavenger Designs really had some great signs using repurposed or scavenged material!

Hanging Garden made all this bright and colorful artwork out of napkins!!!!

Trénde Fémme makes beautiful handmade felted jewelry and scarves!

Kathy Wolfe's art is so intriguing photography made into unique art!!!

Quirky Birds are flying in from everywhere!!  This has been so much fun keep watching more to come!!

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Rocky Cross Studio 2013

So excited we broke ground on the new studio left for work this morning and came home to a big space dug out!!

 

Quirky Birds!!

These Quirky Birds were so much fun to paint I'm now obsessed three more in the works!!

Aluminum Foil Tape

Grunge On A Friday Night!

Zen Doodle

I have some really exciting news to share North Light Books is publishing a new book called "Zen Doodle: Tons of Tangles".  I submitted several of my doodles and was chosen as one of the artist to be represented in the book!  Woo Hoo!  So excited and honored to be published by such a wonderful organization!  The book won't be out till later this year so I"ll have to be patient but will share when I get my copy!

http://www.createmixedmedia.com/editors-picks/congratulations-to-the-artists-selected-for-zen-doodle-tons-of-tangles

Bunny Stamp

Reminders of my youth ... still have my childhood Cutter! 

Foil and Coffee Filters

Playing around with a new technique this weekend.

Stamping and spaying coffee filters then glueing to aluminum foil.  

Crazy Cat Stamped

Crazy Cat Decided to Balance on a Few Corks!

Louie

My daughter finally go her a horse his name is Louie!!!

Journaling

REALLY I AM LOVING MY LIFE .....

Felted Flower

Finally finished my Felted Flower it was a lot of fun but did take a while to make!!

What an exciting Saturday!

I fell in love with this place!  Cool little shops in a small village like setting!!

Turtle

Turtles are so cool just needed to doodle one!

Blue Bird Gourd

Mother's Day Gift I made for my friends MOM!!!

Festival On The Lawn April 28th

Please come out and join us, I'm excited about sharing my art with ya'll.

Although trying to decided what to take and controlling my obsession to 

keep creating more it's becoming a little hectic and not to  mention how

to display.  But determined to make it fun and enjoy visiting with all the folks!

Excellant picture Tony!!

My friend Tony makes beautiful jewelry,

here is a picture she took of some of her beads!!!

Metal Plates

So today I tried a few new things .... tried to felt a vessel, the first one I made using what I thought was dissolvable fabric (it wasn't or it was to old) didn't dissolve.  So after being frustrated I didn't give up!!!  Here is the result with nothing but my felt, needle, and some soapy water.

Once I got the vessel finished and drying decided to print on some metal, yes metal well to be precise Aluminum, these are plates that I use on my printing press.  I used the Goldens Digital Ground for Non-porus Surfaces painted it twice with a sponge brush and let it dry. Taped it to a piece of paper and ran through my ink-jet printer.  Very pleased with the out come, now what will I do with this new found media?!?!?!

Clay Tile

 Made some Sculpey Clay Tiles, used some of my stamps and a few store bought!

Scratchboard

Trying my hand out doodling on Scratchboard, this was really fun!

Follow Your Heart

With Valentines right around the corner decided to start early!!!