A Great Time....!

Wow! It was so much fun to take Leighanna Light's class at Art is You. How hard was it to choose a class? humm...very hard. So many great ones.
After lot's of debating, I left it up to my daughter Jesse to decide and she did GOOD!

We both made our own metal books! What a blast!

I hope to add more pictures soon.

Relaxing, breathing, unwinding....

It feels good to be back in my studio again, making some art pieces that I enjoy creating. I've had such a journey with my bottle art as it is a great passion of mine, and now I've had the pleasure of creating things with my very tiny antique bottles. I've added a few in my etsy store, and hope to add more soon.

I'm heading of town tomorrow to Petaluma for Art is You! Very excited to see some familiar faces and to get some time away with my daughter. She and I are taking a class together, and I just want to sit back and enjoy the fun, the creativity and most of all relaxing!

These creations are truly from my heart, and they just feel enormously healing to me. I think as we get more experienced with our art, there comes a time when we feel a part of us is in our creations...and this is true with these prayer bottles. They feel very soothing and tranquil to have on display and I tend just to breathe when I look at them. I'll be parting with this collection in the weeks to come...

She Keeps Calling Me.

I kept trying to walk away from her, but she kept on calling me back to paint. I was working on her just for some play time, with no thought about where she was going or who she even is really, but here she comes, still leading me back to paint and I so I went back...

I took her and set her up next my bed so I could keep looking over at her as I read and relax. She is becoming a welcome presence and I am letting her take her time to tell me where we are going together. I can't wait to see what she has in mind.

She won't let me get away with just painting for fun! So, I think there may be a few little things she might tell me before we are fully "there."

Some fun with free painting

I enjoyed this time very much, just painting without a plan. It is my favorite thing to do in the whole world...

I hope to finish her this week and give her a name.

New Bottle Art for Healing and Revitalization

Just a little vacation...for the soul.

A little time to revive, and to re-energize. Letting the sands and sea and the waters rush over me and envelope me in healing coolness! Yes, this is what a vacation is for me...time to work on my bottle art and allowing it time to speak to me and whisper the message it has for me.


I save all my special art books and this particular portrait has been in my collection for a while, and it was so reflective for me, a journal page wrapped around a bottle...

Look at her eyes! They follow you wherever you move. They are sad eyes, but also something is there I can't exactly see...some hidden mystery.