Handpainted paper video

Before I check out for the weekend, hubby is home and the weekends are so short. No time for blogging. hehehe.

Sharing a video I did couple weeks ago. See you next week.

Candy!!!!!!

Wanted to let you know i have candy posted on my stamp blog. Gorgeous stamp set that could be used on canvases toooooooo......

GO and ENTER HERE.

Wanted to share this...

And if you have the time to watch this one, you have to watch it! It is so intuitive. Amazing.


Have a wonderful, empathetic day.
XO

Quick post

Just popped in to say hello.... I am still here! I am doing this fabulous and did I mention free workshop with Traci Batista HERE and this was one of my doodles unleashed! I actually made a video of it, it is not edited yet. Someday I hope soon.

When Traci messaged me and asked if she could showcase it on the blog I was tickled. She is a lot of fun if you want to come a check it out.

For now I will leave you with these words of wisdom I gave my hubby today. We were talking about personal growth, and the inevitable failures that come along with it. I told him in a text Fail=Grow. He replied "you're right, but failing hurts."

My response:

"not when you change the way you think about what it meant to fail."

 If you see each failure as an opportunity to have figured out what didn't work and a chance to figure out what will then it turns failure into success.

That is Roberta's words of wisdom for the day. I still have a hard time seeing my failures as discovery successes myself. I like that, Discovery Successes. I should write a self help book.

xo

Happy Holidays

Another year has passed, does anyone else think time is going faster than it used to? How would we really know? There is never enough time for me. Finally, after a month and a half dry spell due to unforseen circumstances, I was able to take the time to create a little something.

Here is the finished piece.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to all. xo

Collage class video

As promised, here is a video I made from the collage class I held at Library Allard in St. Georges MB. I think everyone had fun, I sure did. 

Can you believe Christmas is less than two weeks away! I can't. xo

Mixed Media Encaustic

Well, it has gotten cold here and it is pretty much impossible for me to do the encaustic painting. I just don't have decent ventilation. One thing I did do however, since it is just one little pot of wax to warm, is to wax one of my old unfinished watercolors and engrave details into the wax. I used a raw amber paint to rub into the engravings to bring out the detailing. It was really fun.

 And here is a close up of the detailing on the trees.

 We started Christmas decorating last night. I find it so hard to get into the spirit when the weather has been so weird. We really don't have much snow and that is not really the norm. I remember one Dec 5th the weather getting so warm that the snow began to melt but, we must have had about a foot and a half of snow already! I have said it before and I am going to say it here. I think that the tsunami's and the earthquake in Japan.... the earth has shifted or something and the axis is different and has changed the seasons. Our fall lasts longer, spring takes longer to get here. Just weird.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

xo