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Happy Monday to all! And thank you so much for the Fimo birdie love :)
Congratulations to Allyson Haskell for winning the giveaway at my Facebook page!

Three little fimo birds

All done! I painted them with acrylic & a coat of matte varnish.
It's Daniel's now because he asked me for it...how could I say no to Daniel :)
He wants to put it on the window above his desk in the new house.

Clay Birdies WIP

I cooked these little polymer clay birds this morning to be made into a mobile after I've painted them with acrylics. I'll show you the end result tomorrow.
The biggest one is 3 1/2 inches long from beak to tail.

Facebook giveaway!

I'm giving away this 4" x 6" original watercolor & collage at my Facebook page.
If you have a Facebook account you'll need to click on the "Like" button before leaving a comment on the photo. Head on over there if you'd like to participate :)

Yellow Bird

Trying out something a bit different today.
Mixed media & digital collage. 9 x 12 inches.

New Rocks

I was immediately inspired to make some new hand painted stones
after I read my friend Margie's beautiful guest post at Indie Fixx.
The round stone is 6 inches in diameter, the biggest one I've painted yet!
These will all be companions to my succulent and cactus collection,
Manolo made a really nice place for them in the new house.
Hand painted with white acrylic ink & a very fine (No.1 or 2) round brush.
***The little white pebble vase is from my favorite ceramist:
Paula Valentim of Otchipotchi.

The Orchids

They are thriving. This is the third time they bloomed since we moved here.
But the stems are getting a bit shorter each time. Who knows why.

Pressed plants

Little bits I've been collecting on our walks.
There has been a lot of football watching & not a lot of art making these past few days.

They Draw & Cook

I was so happy & honored when Nate Padavick invited me to play at his wonderful site :)
Andale, ándale, ándale!!! Gracias Nate! Go see it full size at theydrawandcook.com

Sneak Peek Casa 5

1- Bare concrete wall in the living room that still needs to be buffed and sealed.
2- Unfinished bare concrete wall.
3- Dining room window.
4- Left side of the Kitchen. The door you see leads to the laundry room.
5- Private patio view from the dining room.
6- Right side of the kitchen are.
7- Part of our suite.
8- Our studio/school.
9- The view from every room in the house.

I've been meaning to post these since I took them a couple of weeks ago.
The house is starting to take shape and I'm getting more & more excited to move in.
There is still lots of work to be done but it's looking great!
Manolo outdid himself with this one!

Ma chère Jeanette

Watercolor & acrylic ink on handmade Twinrocker paper. 4" x 6".
Painted while watching (well, mostly hearing) the first half of the USA vs. England soccer game :)

Bird Banner

I made a little banner to put up over our bed with some fabric scraps from Repeat, green linen fabric in different hues and Japanese double gauze cotton
that I love and wanted to be able to look at everyday.

I recycled an old linen shirt that I dyed with coffee & applied some of my birdies
with iron-on transfer paper that I bought at an office supply shop.

I bet one with kids artwork would also look great.
Hope you have a fun filled weekend :) I'll be watching a lot of soccer with Manolo.

May/June pages

My new June pages ready to be filled up...

...and as promised my May/June pages after I've written on them.

It's a wrap!

I wanted to share a sheet of custom wrapping paper I made this weekend
using a vintage postcard I painted with some corals & seaweeds.

I scanned the postcard & repeated the image a couple of times in Photoshop
and used them to make a mirror image until I liked the overall design.

I printed the finished design on my ink jet (Epson Stylus Photo R1800)

And cut out one of my printed fishies to make a custom gift tag.

I really liked how the pattern turned out,
I might use it to make a journal/book cover too.

Blue Blooms

Watercolor and acrylic ink on handmade Twinrocker paper. 6 x 8 inches

Here's a little sneak peek of our new house.
The photo above is the pretty view from what will be Daniel's room.
We'll be moving in the new house in 6 weeks!
There's a train that goes by several times a day below our house,
I hope we get used to all the choo-chooing :)

Leopard

Watercolor & acrylic ink on paper. 8" x 10"
Hope you have a fabulous weekend!

Little drawings

Random little micron pen drawings colored with Photoshop.

Snake Head

The minute I picked up that jacaranda seed pod I knew it was a sneak head :)
All it took was two paper fangs, a little bit of glue and my beloved white acrylic ink.