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Maybe this time I get a better scan done...

Facebook is taking over!

Yes, I wish somehow Facebook and my Blog would be connected...but it ain't happening yet.\
I have been stuck regarding creating...but my overwhelming collection of wooden shapes has got me going again. If I still do not have enough for Christmas time bazaars at least I have plenty to give as gifts...

Just call me Blondie.

What a wonderful, not hot, day was today. I went with a friend up to St Goarhausen to visit a liquor store.
I know what you think by now.
But this wasn't any ordinary liquor store. They make their own brandy and schnapps and wine and Eiswein (if you do not know what it is google it) and I got to taste the most delicious brandies ever. I made it home only with a tiny bottle of Chocolate mint and a tinier bottle of Peach brandy (thanks to Sony Germany for cutting my "fun" budget), but is not far at all and I forgot how beautiful the Lorelei valley is.

Why call me a Blondie?
I left my camera at home!
We have 4 Digi cameras (ok one is sort of meleted down after Jeff took it to Iraq but...still works) and all were at home and that included a DEAD cellphone.

So lots of inspiration to look for Pewter ware and abandon it all to live in a castle...and there are plenty up the Lorelei....no pun intended since Lorelei is a mermaid....so a woman.

http://www.loreley-info.com/eng/rhein-rhine/city-cities/st-goarshausen.php

Man , no pictures, must provide with some next...

The sun is shining and...

...and I am sneezing my heart out, no really. I think i tried to sneezed it out a couple of times.
The Lilacs are blooming and so is the Wisteria and another myriad of colours bombs, aka Flowers.
But I am indoors reorganizing my little work space, (pictures to follow), to make room for me and my little growing artist. Who has been painting his bedroom with Expo markers and called his piece "Alien war" (pictures to coming later).

Right now I am going to update with some of my latest artwork This is one of my first solo acrylic paintings......it is entitled "Hiding you"
These are two fo the pages I have done for the minibook for Altered Book Europe.The theme is: Seasons and so I represented them with colours on one side and a napkin and acrylic technique on the other and a good dash of sewing lines....

Did it happen to you?

You know somebody for a certain amount of time and there is always something there stuck in the back of your mind, you cannot put a finger to it and then 2 days before they exit your life you get to know the oddity. It is satisfying, I am not complaining, but why was this person in my path? What did I learn from it other then confirming some of my previous beliefs?

So I celebrate by throwing more artwork at you........

It has been too long....

Sometimes I wish somebody would prick me on the back and get me to update my Blog more often...I really do.
Today in this splendid weather I've decided to spend sometime updating my Blog.
I really do not feel original as I have practical thoughts in my mind, like getting my son out of the house to go to store to buy Drano for the kitchen sink, before I flood the kitchen again (well, at least it's clean now) running the Dishwasher on a clogged pipe.
But I must say...I do have artwork upon artwork to display, plus I am totally happy about a great find at the Thrift Shop where I volunteer...I will post a picture later...It could be months, but it will be later.

These are older Artist Trading Cards, I found digging around my piles of "Beautiful" recyclable collectibles...aka junk.

My life is about catching up with my life

I wish I could say this made no sense whatsoever, but lately my life has been hectic to the point where I volunteer more then 20 hrs a week so I can have a break from , well, my life.
Everything is a learning curve and all of the baggage makes the person you are, but what about going on holiday and ending up with your face half paralyzed and still having to pay a hotel bill?
How many points I get for this kind of baggage?
But even if it is in my Tuscan nature to complaint I need to stop doing that to concentrate on talking about what has inspired me lately.
My constant inspiration is my son, because the more mess he makes the better I can use some of the "altered state" stuff I use in my collages.Everything I observe with him inspires me from a butterfly floating through the lavender to a microscopic ant that he chases to his innocent color combinations in his drawings. I even used some of his paintings as part of my backgrounds and believe me nobody noticed the difference.
Lately I am also focusing on rendering active my stock of everything I have hoarded through this past year. I am fascinated right now with working with ceramic and mixed media (really mixed from Stampings to fabric to beads and you name it).I am predominantly using my stock from my previous life as a Ceramic Shop supervisor to a box of white ceramic tiles glazed I previously bought to press flowers , but it never really worked out, so now I am turning them into little colorful plaques. I know you want pictures, they will come later...just be happy I am blogging instead of me watching a movie.
I am wanting also to do some pieces using the logarithmic spiral produced by the Golden Ratio, it fascinates me behind blief and also a lot of Christian imagery and some roosters....