Whew!
I want to begin today by thanking each of you for your kind words and your patience with me as I prepared for our Thanksgiving meal. I am truly exhausted and plan on relaxing for the remainder of the weekend. We had a lovely day and had many things to be grateful for as during [...]
Giving Thanks
A very few items I will be using to prepare our meal. In the United States tomorrow, we will be celebrating all the things we are grateful for in our lives. In my family, and in many American families, Thanksgiving is a very important holiday. One of the things I always feel grateful for are [...]
Premio Dardos Award
My dear blog friends, you have been so very generous to me and right now your awards are arriving in time to share with others just when I am in need of some blog ideas, too. This award is from our dear friend Suki. She has given me an award with a description which touches [...]
A Little Refreshment
Today I am sharing this cute little award image to anyone wishing to take it. Soulbrush presented me with this earlier this week. Don’t you think it is refreshing? I am continuing to work on our Thanksgiving celebration. It honestly is the cleaning I detest the most. If I can get through that, I can [...]
Busy Days
I have been really busy doing things other than being in my studio this week. You may have noticed in some of the comments I have mentioned I am hosting Thanksgiving for about 15 here next week. I am not so great with cleaning, so I am busy with such things.I grabbed this shot of [...]
Tuesday’s Bits and Pieces
So I am a sucker sometimes for containers. If they are unusual, then I will consider purchasing them. So this is an ink bottle, and it is full of black ink. I don’t use ink all that much, but the bottle drew me in when I saw it. You, too, can purchase one at Art [...]
Weekend Play
This weekend I played in my studio a little bit. Mostly I was glazing some of the paintings I have shown you lately…and there is still more to do there. But I had to play with a bit of color, too. Three years ago I purchased 3 tubes of watercolors to create invitations to a [...]
Fly Away
I know you have seen this before, but I have a purpose in sharing it with you again.This was the photograph of a lily which I put through Dumpr. I became interested in the shape in the center of this circle. I am interested in some of the other aspects, too, but this image came [...]
Call Me Tagged
I had never been tagged until yesterday when I was tagged twice! Both tags have the same rules, which are: 1. Link to the person who tagged you.2. List seven (7) unusual things about yourself.3. Tag seven (7) other bloggers at the end of the post and comment on their blogs to let them know. [...]
Glazing
Some of you may receive Robert Genn’s twice weekly (Tuesday and Friday) newsletter known as The Painter’s Keys. If you do, then you know today he spoke of glazing and gave a few keys helpful when using glaze. In this newsletter he speaks of applying a darker glaze over a lighter color to adjust the [...]