A little this, a little TAAFOMFT

continuing with the woodland theme - 

a cut glass bowl filled with glass ornaments from past years - acorns, pinecones, and walnuts

the new challenge at TAAFOMFT is to show us your favorite celebrity

I honestly couldn't think of anyone - I admit I am not really into the gossip-y side of entertainment and many times don't even know the names of actors in movies (I do like Mr. Depp though!!!) so I decided to do a sort of art journal page using cut-outs from a magazine that I got from the free table at the library. I painted the background and collaged the female image. come on over and show us your stuff!

This morning I have continued the purge of stuff in my studio and

this afternoon I am off to my last session of Watercolor portrait class

tonight we are going to Carrabba's for dinner - YUM!

and tomorrow our annual pre-Christmas trip to West Palm - to check out the holiday decorations - I can hardly wait to see what Anthropologie has done this year

Barnes & Noble to check out the books and magazines

probably Cheesecake Factory for lunch as we have never been there

and Whole Foods to stock up on some staples, some wine, bread, and cheese

Have a wonderful day!

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birds of a feather

Just saying hello so you don't think I have disappeared.

I have been vegging and thinking quite a bit about what direction in which I want to go with my art and my life - reading some old favorite books, doing yoga almost every morning, drinking Darjeeling tea by the potfuls, painting, and finishing my Autumn KAL wrap for the Jane Thornley competition (speaking of, I received a copy of the book in which my Knit a beach wrap was featured!) I have been purging and simplifying my studio and my life - it feels so good to shed things and I have to admit that I have no desire to add new things right now at all. I have been thinking of designating 2011 as THE YEAR OF LIVING ABUNDANTLY - enjoying and using what I have, and being ever thankful for my blessings of family, home, and time. Have you thought about where you want to go and what you want to do next year?

I'll keep you posted on my process.

Hope those of you in the US had a great Thanksgiving - we had a wonderful day of family fun and delicious food!

I have pretty much put up my holiday decorations - I am not doing a traditional tree this year; instead I wired together some branches and created a bare tree on which I attached lots of birds and nests.

I am now working on more houses for my little village.

Tomorrow I will be back with the newest TAAFOMFT challenge - be sure to check it out!

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Chris

Some thoughts about - holidays.

Thanksgiving

Yesterday I bought all the fixings for our Thanksgiving dinner and I also got the final ingredients to make my mother's English Christmas cake - I will be doing that on Sunday morning as the cake takes 4 hours to bake. I am so looking forward to seeing our son next week and enjoying his company. I hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed holiday

I had my DH get my boxes of holiday stuff down from the attic so I could get some ideas and start creating holiday items for DT work and for my house. I want to do some very different decorating this year - I made a funky tree from some branches and I plan to place lots of birds etc on it. I am working on some paper items to go with this - and I want to make some paper houses for my village. Lots of ideas bubbling around!

Yesterday we got a notice from Directv that they were giving us 3 months of the Showtime channels, and I was very happy - I love the Sundance channel and especially Man Shops Globe (a program about a guy who goes to other countries buying items for Anthropologie). I am watching a marathon of MSG this morning - 4 shows in a row!!!!!!!!!

Hope you have a great day, and I will be back this weekend with some sneak peeks!

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Chris

All I can do........

for Sketchy Thursdays (I rotated the sketch) and for Scrapping the Music - Blind Melon "No Rain"

I really mixed it up here - Sassafrass and Stampington paper, Prima flower and pom pom trims, vintage fabric, Pink Paislee and October afternoon alphas, and some other funky little things that I found in my embellishment basket.

Lots going on - see you soon!