Fun day with paint

Okay, you guys, you missed it!   Small group of 3 and we had a wonderful fun morning painting at Desiree's.  Amongst a beautiful decorated table for Valentine's Day, we munched on doughnut holes, cookies and each one of us was given a chocolate dipped strawberry.  But, before we could eat it, we had to paint it.  This is my journal painting of my chocolate strawberry, I like it. We learned about shadows, highlights, seeds and colors. Then, Desiree gave each of us a Valentine with her "rose" technique and we proceeded to make one our own learning this technique.  Missed everyone who couldn't make it - hope to see more of you at March for making paper!

Happy Valentines Day, we missed you!

      Our sketch class was today and we celebrated Valentines Day together. It was a small group of dedicated painters who skillfully painted their chocolate covered strawberries and rose bouquets! We had a great time but missed those of you who could not make it. Marilyn brought Valentine cookies, between that and the candy and chocolate, phew, we were in trouble! I painted everyone a card and our table was filled with everything red! We hope that all of you have a wonderful Valentines day and that you continue to create during the month. Our theme for this month is Red, paint anything red and lets see how many red things we can get posted before we meet again.

What do you have that is RED??? 

I have been looking around and I have more than I thought sitting here!

Christmas!!

It's very early on Christmas day and I have quietly made my way to the kitchen to have some quiet time before the craziness of the day begins. A time to give thanks for God's gift to us,His ultimate gift of salvation. In all the busy-ness of the season it is easy to lose sight of why we celebrate this day.

Today my house will be filled with family, gifts and good food. We will laugh a lot as we play games and visit. The noise level will never go below the roar of a low flying aircraft and the kids will be making messes in every corner. When all the festivities are over my house will resemble a battlefield of fun. I am so thankful for these crazy days of Christmas, knowing that each year we are all together should be cherished. I was trying to put together a video of Christmas's past to play throughout the day with our music. As i was going over all the photos it was a reminder as to how quickly everyone grows up! It also reminded me how much things change although they feel so "the same". Our family is forever changing, growing, multiplying, dividing, dying.
This year is hard for us as Randy's parents are not doing well, his mom with dementia and his dad with pneumonia. So many years a part of our Christmas day celebration, we now are running down early to see them before Christmas. My mom,still weak from surgery, unable to travel,so we will go to her after Christmas but they all will be missed so much this year at our table.
With the baking done,Blake's stocking finished, the decorations complete and before my day begins, I wanted taking a few minutes with you to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. I hope and pray that your time together with friends and family is filled with love and laughter and many, many wonderful memories.






- Desiree

Christmas and drawing

My tree if finally up and got the lights on the porch this morning. Feeling better and have lots to do.  One of my challenges was "teapot".  I was taking out my ornaments and found this lady with a teapot on her hat and decided it would be my drawing for the day.  Also had another small teapot in my collection and did a drawing of it too.  Hopefully things are looking up this week, cold is better and I can get back into the studio a little this week,  family is coming and food to fix. 

HELLO, where is everyone?

Wow,come on you guys, I know it's Christmas and everything but you must have a minute or two to comment or post a entry even without a sketch.

I am working on a rush job this weekend and I am so far behind in my decorating and sewing projects all due by Christmas! Here are my 12 days of Christmas paintings in progress.

I want to hear about what you are doing before the holidays!


- Desiree

Fon's and Porter- For the Love of Quilting

Its been a busy week, full of surprises!. Yesterday I shared with you that my interview was posted and my quilt was auctioned off on ebay. Well today I received the new Love of Quilting magazine where my pincushions are featured. I hope you will check it out. It should be on the shelves soon, it is the January/February 2012 issue. Also Kelly Mueller from Wooden Bear has a huge spread. They are giving you one of her patterns and they did a whole spread on her studio and then taped her for a new show they are doing on QNN called Quilt with the stars. It is a  wonderful opportunity for her and she is such an amazing person! I happen to know her personally and she is so sweet and down to earth. I hope you will check it out and I have posted some of the links here for you! The first part of her interview is here, the rest will hopefully be up by the time the magazine hits the shelves. Enjoy  http://www.qnntv.com/videos/3005_kelly-mueller/

Featured artist and my quilt is up for auction.

So much is happening today. I woke up to find my interview for the sketchbook challenge blog was posted. They asked me some questions which made me have to really think about what and why I sketch. I hope you will comment on it. I would love to be asked to be a part of this group of artists.

I also got word that my small quilt I did for the Alliance for American Quilts is up for auction,you can see it here.

It was a photo quilt I did for them but dedicated it to Jennifer and here work with the animals.

- Desiree

- Desiree