Oh my! I just realized it has been 2 YEARS since I last posted!!! Does anyone blog anymore?!?
I guess I could use the excuse...we made a big MOVE...I have been so busy...but the fact is.....I feel like I am BORING & do not have much to write about.
What happened to the cheery, charming, witty Emily? ha!
I find that I am not READING blogs anymore myself. A shame because there are so many wonderful blogs out there. Some of my favorites:
LOVE & BEAUTY are ever present in Kirsty Mitchell's book "Wonderland". Six years in the making, "Wonderland" was created in memory of Kirsty's mother Maureen. A loving tribute ~ a personal journey through grief.
From her website.....here is her "official" artist bio:
Amanda Louise Spayd’s mixed-media work combines the textures and colors
of antique domestic objects, the natural world, and an obsessive
attention to detail. At once endearing and unsettling, her fabric
creatures evoke ideas of cast-off children’s toys and ill-conceived
taxidermy experiments with crooked human teeth.
Because of their aged, antique appearance, one is left to wonder about
the origin, past experiences, and past lives of these creatures. Do
they look like this because they were abandoned, or because they were
literally loved to pieces? The idea of an unknown past story, combined
with the possibilities of their future, is a central theme of her work.
Her work has been published internationally, and is highly sought
after by collectors around the globe, and she has exhibited her work in
galleries and conventions across the United States, France, and Japan.
Amanda Louise Spayd ~ A truly gifted artist!!!
See also "behind the scenes" ~ the making of "The Maker" film:
I am so very excited to be signed up for Lynn Whipple's class "The Joy of Collage"!!! The online class starts tomorrow! I have admired her work for a l-o-n-g time. Here are some fabulous links:
Mmmm! Donuts! Why is it that something that is so BAD for you tastes so GOOD?!?
My favorites ~ Chocolate iced custard filled (Bismarks or Long Johns), chocolate iced with peanuts, white icing with coconut.......who am I kidding? I never met a doughnut I did not like!
When my kids were little, I used to make homemade cake donuts. While they were still hot, I would shake them in a paper bag filled with cinnamon & sugar. Mmmm!
Now that I am trying to go "gluten free"... I must find some new donut recipes... in case I need to feed my donut cravings once in awhile.
Artist. Dreamer. Sweetheart. Friend. I believe in living simply, organic/fair trade, volunteering, charity, prayer. I am a self-taught artist who loves hunting for vintage treasures, timeworn objects that others have cast aside, that find their way into my heart, my home and my original art. My goal is to bring a little joy into your life ~ simple pleasures (& treasures) that remind you that "Life is Beautiful" by offering sweet, uplifting, comforting & encouraging works of art to grace your life. "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty."