Altered Shrines for workshop

My Altered Shrines for workshop at the Franklin Street gallery

New work in gallery show Matriarch- Celebrating the Festival of Women in the Arts.

Mixed media/acrylic

New Jewelry

Here's a couple of new jewelry pieces that will be listed on Star Dance Design at Etsy as soon as I can get them listed at my shop.

Here's what it looked like out the kitchen window the day of the snow storm "Nemo"

Well that's all for right now...

Just an update

I have been doing a lot of thinking about my blog. Before the big social media wave happened, the focus of my blog was to just have a place to show inspiring ideas, funny stuff, and my artwork and jewelry. Now I think that it should have a direction that will focus mostly on my art and to get it recognized, i.e., build up a following. Guess that would make me the Leader of the Flock? Oe the Head Quack!
I'm planning on having project techniques, tutorials, and videos.
So more of what's going on later this week.

My new favorite colors - pumpkin with turquoise

Check back for photos of new jewelry!

How many days before Christmas?

New necklace for sale. $65.00. Copper, forged copper, vintage copper beads on copper chain, beads, copper chain, handmade clasp. Send me an email if interested!

Kilala at the lake having fun and ready for a swim.

Another new necklace.

Art for Sale

Seneca Lake
Mixed Media and acrylic painting on wood
6 x 6
$120

Please leave a comment or contact me at Star Dance Design if you are interested in purchasing this painting!

Yule card

Love this card!

An idea for using wine corks as card holders. Just twisted wire and a cork.

I've been inspired

My head is spinning from all the great ideas on Pinterest. Here are some table decorations that I made:

Now back to work!

Bathroom redo - start wiith ideas!

Moroccan images for inspiration:

This is amazing!

More vintage postcards

Cavern Gorge

My Home Town

Travel up the gorge. Vintage post card. Watkins Glen, NY.

Just a little updating

Kilala - Husky princess

Just a little update

Been very busy. Always so much to do and so much I want to do. My brother Morgan inspired me to be more creative (I have been feeling stuck in a rut) so I have working on journal pages.
Here's a peek will show them when they are finished but this will give you an idea...

Today: groceries, garden, pool, swim, web site work, swim, make art, more web site work, wine, snacks, doggie running and will someone PLEASE get me away from Pinterest?

Saturday plans

I'm back to doing some oil painting. Kilala at the lake. Love mixing the colors and moving the paint around. Hoping to start another one this afternoon on a wood panel.

You have to read this!

History
Since our founding just before the turn of the century, the Dwight Yoakam's Bakersfield Biscuit brand has been synonymous with quality, comfort, taste and style. Over the span of our history, Dwight Yoakam's Bakersfield Biscuit Brand will use only the finest ingredients and employ only the best craftsmen available to bring you the best food product.

Our Humble Beginning
Dwight Yoakam's Bakersfield Biscuit Brand was founded by legendary entertainer Dwight Yoakam and Biscuit Boy. BOY was born in Oklahoma in 1952, just outside of the Seneca-Cayuga Indian Reservation.

BOY was the second of four kids born in to Carmel Carl and Charlene's family of traveling carnies who worked the midways, carnivals and fairs throughout the Midwest and south with their concession business selling caramel apples, cotton candy, funnel cakes, and roasted ears of corn on the cob (when in season). When the family business grew to include Charlene's Chicken and Biscuits, BOY learned at his momma's knee her time-tested recipe for buttermilk biscuits and showed such a knack for making them that he came to be known as Biscuit BOY.
When Biscuit Boy was about 16, he fell in love with Dori Rae Rattliffe who was out canvassing for the evangelical crusade of Reverend Ernest Fellows and his Traveling Flock of the Sacred Wounded (The Reverend annointed her the "Flower Child" who would pass out the token Roses of Sharon to the newly-saved converts who came forward during each service.) Boy followed his lovesick heart, leaving Carmel Carl and Charlene to join Fellows' Flock, taking his momma's biscuit recipe with him. For fifteen years Biscuit BOY stayed with the flock as an assistant shepherd, serving up his biscuits at tent meetings, until, at one fateful revival in Bakersfield, CA, the Reverend's oldest boy from a previous marriage spilled a story about his father's current double-marriage and shady history of handling donations, the news of which soon found Rev. Fellows serving a chunk of time for Income Tax Fraud.

Biscuit Boy, finding himself on his own in Bakersfield, was looking for work at a music store (since he used to tune guitars for his uncle's band that played the carnivals) when he happened to meet up with Dwight Yoakam who was buying some strings and a guitar strap. Dwight was in town for the Grand opening of Buck Owens' Crystal Palace nightclub and restaurant and, after learning of Boy's inherited talent for food, got him hired on as a cook at the Crystal Palace. Dwight asked Biscuit Boy if he couldn't whip up a little something special for Buck to celebrate the Grand Opening, so the two of them took Biscuit Boy's special recipe, incorporated a few of Dwight's own ideas, and prepared a batch of buttermilk biscuits. The folks liked 'em so much, they just had to keep making 'em.

Our Amazing Success
Since then, the incredible team of Biscuit Boy, Dwight Yoakam and their disributor Modern Foods, have introduced dozens of new food items into the marketplace, including Bean Dips, Mini Cheeseburkers, Chicken Sandwiches, Ribs and - of course - biscuits.
And that's how Dwight Yoakam's Bakersfield Biscuits came to be served at Buck Owen's Crystal Palace, and how they're now available at your local store. Just heat'em and eat'em.

Monday

It's official. I've been published in Somerset Apprentice (mixed media magazine for artists). Six  pages to hit the magazine stands March 1st!

Valentine wishes

My Valentine wishes.

Just a little news

"Conjuring"

Mixed media - acrylic paint, colored pencils, watercolor, collage, image transfer, etc

You can order a print of this artwork. Artist quality print on Somerset Velvet Giclee paper - 12 x 15 inches including a 1/2 inch border. Can be ordered in larger sizes.

January Friday the 13th

Journal page.