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Yesterday I spoke at the Cultural Arts Center's Conversations and Coffee. This was a wonderful experience and so fulfilling. Painting for me has always been a personal endeavor and that has been enough. The way that people responded to some of my work made the paintings and the process feel more worthwhile to me. Thanks to everyone that came out to see my art work!

Thanks to Ellen O'Shaughnessy for hosting the great program weekly. For more info: Cultural Arts Center

This painting is acrylic on canvas, 18x24. It is by far one of my favorites, but that often happens when I paint something new. So, this is my "new favorite." I have plans to create similar pieces soon.

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Oil on canvas, 18x24"

Some paintings start as an experiment. This was one of those. I have plans to modify some of it slightly. My favorite part of this painting is the last of an early snow melting over the tilled earth in the foreground.

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This painting is acrylic on canvas. It may be incomplete... but for now it needs to rest. 18x24"

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Goldfinch. Acrylic on porcelain with gloss shellac. 3" diameter

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Chickadee. Acrylic on porcelain with gloss shellac.

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Before Christmas this year, I painted this Blue Jay on a porcelain ornament. I really enjoyed painting the bird and I will paint more! This is acrylic on porcelain, 3" in diameter, sprayed with a gloss shellac.

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5 new bracelets. I have been using all sorts of things in my bracelets lately. In these there are buttons, polished stones, and beads.

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This new necklace pendant is made from many broken pieces of jewelry. The top faux ruby and 2 leaves are from a clip-on earring. The larger gold leaves used to hold a small pearl that had broken off. I wound them all with silver and copper wires and beads to create the new piece. Where discolored edges showed, I brushed on dabs of gold or white gold paint.Save Now

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Collections... I have so many small collections of little things. I just cannot help picking up the halves of birds' eggs in the yard in the spring and summer. These are arranged in a 5x7 shadow box with dried daffodils from my garden.

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Recently I needed two greeting cards, so I drew this colorful bird on a transparent mulberry paper and attached it to layers of lavender card stock. Both are in the mail! (Colored pencils)

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New curtain for the living room. I found a brand new sheet at the thrift store in December and have finally gotten around to sewing it into a curtain. The old curtains were very neutral. This brightens things up a bit!

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Coffee themed apron. The blue fabric has coffee beans and the dark brown has swirls in blue, brown, and green.

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If you have been following my work for over a year, then you have seen my website change a few times. This last time I made a collage of materials I use (the first image) and setup the whole thing in Flash. I spent about 15 hours over a weekend working on it, but the original concept changed a few times. Since it isn't as cohesive as I'd like, I am creating a XHTML, CSS, and Javascript only site that doesn't require Flash to be viewed. Some Vista users were having problems getting to the Flash page, so that was a motivation also. I'll have the new version up within a few weeks.

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This is the before and after versions of this card. When I made it I hadn't intended on painting on it, but that's what happened! This is a Downy Woodpecker, common in Ohio. I painted it with acrylic paint.

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These leaves I picked up from the yard and from hiking. I dried them and mounted them on archival matboard.

It is important to make sure framed leaves are completely dry before framing them or they can grow mold.

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I framed these leaves that we found while hiking between 2 pieces of glass so that they will cast a shadow on the wall and you can look at the backs. Glass is 5x7"

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This mat is quilted an made from the same fabric as the pin on the last post. It is about 16" across and the other side is a dark forrest green.

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This pin was made from layered fabric flowers, cut out of a solid piece of material. I attached the pin to the card card as a birthday gift.

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12 Pieces of jewelry

nine bracelets, one repaired necklace, one set of earrings(only one shown), and one pendant

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Pastel drawing, 8.5x11" This was an interpretation of a photography by my friend, Nova Weller. You can see her other photography here: http://www.pbase.com/westbridge/novaweller