This shekerie is painted, polyurathaned and beaded with metal beads. I was very happy with the way it turned out. It takes just as long to make this smaller one as it does to make the large ones - so pricing is hard, people do not understand that. 

this is my little gourd patch beside the house. it is ok - the ones in the gardens are not doing anything. these will go with me if I move before they are ready- that will be interesting. I am going to a gourd festival in Raleigh,NC. this comming weekend, can not wait- need to get all the gourds I can - to finish all the projects I have been writing down. The next festival near me is not until may.  

gourds in progress, I really enjoy the whole process of working with the gourd to make fun and pretty stuff. these have been cleaned and holes drilled cleaned out and are ready to be dyed, painted, beaded etc. some are going to be shekeries, some bird homes, and the 1/2 's wall art. I am packing up the house right now to put it on the market so I have not been artistic lately- writting down all the ideas. 

The Art show will be at the Litchfield Exchange Mall in Litchfield, SC.

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resent art/craft works - cypress knees and shekeries, stilleto pin cushion, emu egg, fish sand dollars, santa oysters 

Aug 1 ,2006

Howdy, I want to let people in the area know about our summer art show and sale. It will be Aug 5 - 15, 2006. 10-6pm daily. The Seacoast Artist Guild will be having a multiple raffle, Jumble sale and Bake sale on Aug. 12, 2006...during the show..... I hope to have some of my new crafting ventures in the such as my Shekeries. I will get some pics in of it all..

One of my new pics " First Journey" 

This worked- Dune picture finished 

Hello, long time gone by. I have been so busy I forget to write in the blog, then so much has happened that I procrastinated. My PC has been acting up also making it difficult as I am not a wizard at computers either and when Dell and Microsoft wont help you , you know you are in trouble. I will try to put up my new pictures. I finished the "Dune" and did another one called " first Journey". I have been learning how to paint cypress knees, make Shekeries - a gourd percusion instrument, also Hobo Bags. I am going to put up on "Esty" for sale. I will let you know the code for my stoe later.. I am going to try and get these pictures up.

This weeks class picture, in Acrylics.. Again a work in progress, I will post finished one.... 

This is Barnie Slice he is our acrylics teacher. These are 2 pictures he just finished, I will be happy to get that good. He is a wonderful teacher, I will be taking his continuing class. 

These are coffee paintings done at guild meeting by one of our members. I am going to use my new glass pen and 4 colors of ink to trace the turtle. I think the bigger one has lizards in it. I will send it again when I finish it. 

This is my Monster, Mooshie. He is my 6 month old kitten that is in a monster phase. A black and white flash with glowing eyes - and he is off and tearing up something else. Before I knew it he had ran through my paint pallete and got paint on the rug his whiskers and paw...AAAAWWWW . need to paint him for my monster. 

I have errors in spelling and writing. I can not figure out how to fix it. please excuse. Hope you enjoy my Blog. Comments are welcome. 

My finished "Marsh " picture, camera picture a little blurry. but it came out ok- I want to keep practicing these too. Acrylics. I am still in class. 

A Dogwood with a lot of moss hanging off. I could not get the white to show up. green were a little muted too. I think its the paper. I will ask some of the experianced artists.. but it was so relaxing..And yes I love trees... 

An attempt at the huge tree in the picture below, from the other side, it was harder than I had expected. I took a picture from my view, maybe try again another time. Ruth in our group says there is a pamphlet on some of the huge trees in the area, they have names and stories... will look this up and let you know.. 

An old church in conway were us PALS were- on 4-1-06. the church and yard with cemetary were beautiful. I took lots of pictures before and after drawing. 

A Redbud ,in the park. pastel on my paper. Takes care of red for Feb. 

Here is a little pastel on my handmade paper of the park bench, covers green for march. Need the drawing practice..