Faith & Hope...August 1st post

Faith & Hope...August 1st post - a day late :(

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AFTER

Due to a problem with our Internet provider we were without service for yesterday and part of today. What a way to start my last month. Now that everything is running there will be two posts today.

This is the post scheduled for yesterday.

I got this candle holder at my work marked down to .80. My guess is that no one wanted to buy it because the paint was smeared. Lucky for me! This was a simple fix, new paint in a more neutral color and that was that.

This wooden heart was from the Goodwill and cost 1.99. As you can see on the before it came with 'checkers' attached to it and it had seen better days. I removed them and set them aside for a future project. I coated the heart in a light shade of green and added the purple swirl design. It looked good like that but with the addition of the word 'hope' it was much improved. This is a donation to a friends benefit for ovarian cancer. It seemed appropriate.

The swirl design was actually something that I saw in my head right before drifting off to sleep. Many of the patterns that are in my work originate this way. That is way there is a notebook near my bed, to jot down these ideas.

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Heartthrob Cafe Memories

The best job ever and the coolest friends that I ever had were when I worked at a restaurant called the Heartthrob Cafe. It was in downtown St Paul, Minnesota and was so fun! Today we had a get together to catch up and reminisce. This is one of the many good things about facebook, finding people that you wished you never lost contact with. So, today my post is the buttons that I made for this event. We had 'flair' that was a lot more fun and cool than a restaurant chain that I will not name here. We danced and sang birthday songs. The girls wore poodle skirts and we did all of this while wearing in line skates. We were a crazy family and honestly this was one of the best times in my life. Ahhh...memories. In the time spent there somehow the button machine came into my possession. In honor of our gathering, of course I had to make pins. Here are also two murals that I painted at the restaurant. Let me tell you they were tricky! The murals are on glass and when

A few paintings

Can you believe it? Another post this soon! I have been making stuff, but the posting has gotten slower, sorry. These two wooden plaques were bought at a thrift store for less than $2.00 each. They had some premade botanical pictures on them. I decided to just paint some random designs on them. They are about 12 inches square and they turned out great but now what I really want to do is some more paintings in this style only much larger. The designs would make such a statement on a larger scale. That may require a trip to Menards or Home Depot. Sorry for the picture quality, my camera in not working the best right now.

Black and Blue Snowflakes

Ah winter in Minnesota! We have had a lot of snow this year and this design is snowflake based. There is a contest that I am entering this week for snowflake design. You can use any medium that you would like the only requirement is that it be no larger than 12 x 12 for display purposes. I doodled until I came up with this 'snowflake.' At this time I don't know if I want to submit the black design or the one that I did in the blue outline. Both are very unique. I have to admit after making the first design, I traced it for the second one, but as an artist sometimes you need to do that to get things just right. If anyone is reading this a comment or two would be helpful in my decision. The deadline is on Wednesday of this week. It would be nice to get some kind of recognition for my art other than friends and family telling me how talented I am. It keeps me going, but sometimes it would be nice to hear it from someone who judges and critiques art. No matter what

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