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Fun Boxes

As you know I’m redecorating a room at Mister’s house for my studio.  It’s going to be yellow, pink and live green.  Well, you know how you always have boxes and baskets of stuff sitting around that you keep doo-dads in?  I decided I’m going to color coordiante all my boxes to match the studio.

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New e-Course! Paint Your Shoes

I have fixed the glitches that occured the last time I tried to offer this course.  You can read more about the course, and sign up here.

The course is three separate lessons that will teach you everything to create beautiful artwork on any shoes.  The cost is $20.00.

Course will begin on May 9th, so sign [...]

Update on Studio Project

I finally have all the cracks filled in and almost everything, including the ceiling painted with Kilz.   Now I’m going to paint all the walls yellow.  In the picture below, you can see the part where the celing slants into the wall.  On that slanted part I’m going to paint the word “create” in huge [...]

Your Dreams Can Come True, But You Have To Believe in Yourself

This has been all over the news all over the world, so you have probably seen it already.  I  saw something about it on the tv a few times before I actually went and watched the video on YouTube.    I’m posting it here to bring your attention to this incredible story.  Please take a deep [...]

Photo A Day

This is a small pumping unit inside I restaurant in Midland, TX.  A pumping unit is what is placed on a completed oil well to bring up the oil continually to pump it into a pipeline.  The countryside is full of these, but the real ones are much larger.  This one is about 6 feet [...]

Photo A Day

Today’s photo comes from a store in Irving, TX called Cost Plus.  It’s the strangest store I’ve ever seen.  It has everything from groceries to cooking stoves (appliances).  It’s geared toward the Latin population so they have everything you could ever want in the way of Mexican food cooking.  And their bakery is fabulous!  This [...]

Happy Birthday Jimbo

Today is my only nephew’s birthday.  Hope it’s a good one, Jim!!

Photo A Day

I haven’t forgotten about my challenge to take a photo every day and post it.  I’ve been taking photos although not every day.  But I just haven’t been posting them.  I’m going to get started again, though and catch up on some I’ve been taking.

This one is a “for rent” sign in front of a [...]

Internet Down and New Art

Oh my gosh, my internet died and I haven’t been able to get online since Thursday!!  It was awful!!  I’m so happy to be back   The good news is thatwithout being able to get online, I did a lot of art.   One of the things I did was doodling.  I’ve tried this before [...]

Back to Collage – sort of

I cleaned my art table and made room to work on some large canvases.   I started out like I used to, to create a collage – going through images to find something to inspire me. I selected some images and laid them out on the canvas but nothing was working.  I started [...]