Give Away April 2014!

 I hope everyone had a lovely week past. I've been very busy! so much going on in the studio and my life as well! I've been procrastinating by distracting myself with other projects. However, it always works out in the end. Since I accomplish some sort of project and all the while mulling over whatever it is that is causing me to procrastinate!

I'm very excited to announce that I have one set of greeting cards available now. I took four of my paintings out of my store to keep only for that purpose. I had the kiddo work on the technical side to get them ready to be printed. We went thru a couple of failures but then we found success! I'm very happy with these now. They are a set of four.

 

The first one is from my painting "Snowday".

 

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The second one is from my painting, "Purple Snowman"

 

 

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The third is from my painting, "Snowed In".

 

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 And the fourth is from my painting, "Quiet"

 

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Now onto the good news. Oh, you've probably already guessed it! This is the give away this month! All you have to do is during today and tomorrow comment on this blog or go onto facebook and like my post or comment on it, whichever you prefer! Then your name will be thrown into the mad hatter hat then, while blindfolded I'll pull out a name and wallah! If it's your name you win a set of greeting cards! These are blank inside so that you can share heartfelt words of your own to the loved one you send them to!

Now, let's see what else was I up to this week? Oh, yes! I created a fun secret door for the kiddos secret library. It started with this $14.99 shelf from my local hidden treasures store.

Boring and plain, not to mention the stickers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

soooo, I scraped and scraped, then I painted with a combo of burnt umber brown, crimson red and copper to come up with this! (the paint cost about $10.00)

 

Door Closed.

 

 

 

And door open!

 

 

 

I added a curtain behind it so when your inside the secret library, you can't tell there is a shelf there! The kiddo is very pleased and I had a good time doing it. This project cost me $25.00 all together and a few hours of my time.  

 

This week I continued my work on the "Neverending" Painting. I've been working on this painting since December, it's really a work of love. I was so happy when a friend who I love dearly, but moved away contacted me and asked to purchase this painting. I'm so pleased that this work of love is going to a dear friend and that it will be in a home that I know is full of love. It couldn't go to a better place.  So I'm truly honored to say that it's already sold. It's still not finished. Here's the latest progress on it.

 

   

There's still quite a bit more to do and I added a special little something hidden in the painting, just for my friend. She will have to search to find it. It'll be fun when she does! I will share a picture of it when it's completely completed! The kiddo is still going thru medical tests but we are down to just couple more to go. He's been at Drs non stop since February, the findings haven't been too hard to deal with, yet they require some adjustment for him still. It makes my heart leap that he's still cancer free, but my heart heavy knowing what he has to continue to deal with. He's courageous which makes me proud. We continue on joyfully. Slowly, I can begin to throw myself back into the studio. I hope that the coming week will have me at a new painting that's just itching to get onto canvas! Until then have a happy week and don't forget to have some sort of tea time!    

 

Oh, one more thing. Did anyone else stay up and watch the blood moon solar eclipse? I thought it was amazing and I got a picture of it too!