Suzi Blu Kit

One of my favorite artists Suzi Blu created a kit to learn how to paint her girlies. The kit is called "Party Girl" and it came with so many materials that I can make several mixed media paintings out of them. One of the things that was included was a practice sheet with images of her girlies on the front and back. After I finished practicing, I realized that I liked some of them. I wanted to do something with them instead of just keeping them in a drawer or tossing them, so I decided to laminate the ones I liked and make bookmarks out of them to give to my friends and family. Here is a picture of how they came out. When I'm finished with the actual painting I will post the results. Leave a comment and let me know what you think of the bookmarks.

New Gnome Homes!!

Yes, I am addicted to my Gnome Homes! They are so fun and relaxing to make!! I really hope you like my new batch.

"Truth" is now on sale in my shop!

Just a quick note that I just added my newest painting to my Etsy shop.

Commissions and Truth

I just finished two commissions for a little boys room. This is waaaaaaaay out of my normal girlie paintings, but it was fun to do something different. After I finished the commissions, I was going through girlie withdrawals, so I painted a quick 6X6 girlie. The title of the painting is "Truth." I don't normally use purple, but I think it looks good with her blond hair.

Tour of my Studio....If you want to call it a studio

Here is my work desk. I have all kinds of things stored on the top shelf. Things like fabric, felt, chipboard books and a bin for my son's art supplies. The bottom shelf has all of my chipboard letters (I kinda got carried away with chipboard letters). To the left on the wall is my cute little Suzi Blu print I bought recently. It is a odd size so I had to get creative in order for it to fit into the frame.

These are all of my unmounted stamps that I put in CD cases and in my desk drawer. I also keep my die cuts in there as well.

In my top right drawer I keep distress inks , embossing powders and distressing tools.

My middle drawer contains some of my foam stamps and glitter.

I have a smaller desk on the left side of my bigger desk (this comes in handy for storage).


In the top drawer I keep all of my paints and various mediums

The bottom drawer had my ink pad, oil pastels, and tools.

This is a really cool item I purchased that holds all of my paper embellishments, rub-ons and stickers. I love it because I can see everything I have right at my fingertips.



This is my paper holder...man I have a lot of fricken paper! On the top I keep all of my Golden Acrylics and gel mediums. I use these a lot so I like them right next to me.

Dutchie girl just listed in my shop!

Just wanted to let you know that I just listed "For the love of the Dutch" in my Etsy shop.

Good Night Moon and Stars paintings featured!

My little sister paintings were featured today on "For the Love of that Sillie Smile" blog. The paintings inspired her to share a really cute story in her post, so check it out.