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Colored Pencil Play Date 2016
A creative experience awaits you….. Join the fun and experience Colored Pencil Play Date…learn and create using colored pencils with some mixed media. Varied surfaces will give you the opportunity to do more than just frame your artwork. Surfaces include, to name… Continue reading
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‘Havtahavs’ -Creative Vintage Finds
If you have been following my Artful Journey on Facebook (if not, would love your friendship request), you most likely have seen a few posts about ‘Havtahavs’ within the last few months. This is a collection I created, hoping folks will… Continue reading
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Decorative Art Friendships…..
One of the best parts of being a Decorative Artist is the friendships I have made thru Chapters, Seminars, Classes, Conventions; even E-mails and FaceBook Groups over the past 28 years…. lasting wonderful friendships! Lynn of Painting Thyme Needfuls, and I… Continue reading
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It’s all in the Presentation 2015
I leave the wrapping up to my husband…….well at least the paper wrapping part. I love of course to dream up and create gift wrap toppers and tie-ons and tags and ribbons….but the paper part, I am just flat-out not good… Continue reading
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Handmade and Homemade 2015
Merry Christmas Each Christmas I create handmade gifts for very special people in my life; a co-worker, a neighbor, a friend, my hair-stylist, a teacher, the post lady and our shop keepers, special people that are part of my everyday life. This gift is created… Continue reading
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Holiday Touches to the Everyday 2015
Merry Christmas Most vignettes in our home are created with vintage items, handmade creations and a bit of memory making. I make changes for each season and holiday….and whenever I feel a need for an update. *** Our snowman friends will greet you at… Continue reading
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Log Cabin Vignette
I had a plan….I always have a plan and then my wheels turn in my head and I get more ideas and I make bigger plans….the ideas come in like a roaring waterfall, not like a dripping faucet! My plan was set… Continue reading
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Faux-Vintage Christmas Card Holder
Merry Christmas As a young girl it was fun to receive Christmas Cards in the mail…….wondering whom was thinking of us and catching up on news from distant friends and family. In the early 70’s we did not have cell phones, computers, social… Continue reading
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Creative Friends & Fun Surfaces
As Decorative Artists we cannot get enough patterns, books, surfaces, brushes, paint, etc, etc, etc, I know you know what I am saying…. And over the years we gather quite the collection of ‘stuff’ with good intentions of painting each and every… Continue reading
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Candy Corn Anatomy
This morning at the Tamaqua Community Art Center in Tamaqua PA, a few young Decorative Artists joined me to create ‘Corny Candyman’ , at the Mommy and Me Colored Pencil Workshop! This is Isaac…..a budding Decorative Artist! What a talented little fellow, we all… Continue reading
Classic Amy Joanne….my cottage life
Creating Art, Home, and a Cottage Life
all things to warm your home and melt your heart
