Happy New Year!

I'm supposed to transform from a messy artist to a regular person..... to doll up and go to a party and meet people.... To find clothes without paint on them.....eeeeek
I don't like it....... Can't I just stay at home with my computer or my art toys?
I don't like Holidays.... I like my regular days.

Illustration Friday - Flavor

My daughter Hana (11) didn't wait for Thursday evening to do the Friday illustration (like me). This is the first time she participated.

Illustration Friday - Holiday

To show or not to show?

Oh well, not everything can turn out the way I want it....
Thursday evening.... almost didn't make it.
Not my favorite piece....
I wish I had more time.
I wanted to use the words that speak to me:

"The holiest of all holidays are those
kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
secret anniversaries of the heart."

A stack of new journals

I have a new, lovely red, organized handbag... Why is that important? Because 'she' (the bag) NEEDED a journal... and I had to make it. I like to write, sketch, draw, play whenever I'm waiting for my daughter to finish her activities. While I was thinking about a journal for my new bag, I decided to create a line of "Journals with a secret".
They are fun! They look like ordinary blank journals, but they have a secret.... If you remove the spine there is another side exposed... right there to write secrets.... or just everyday things. I used a heavy duty Bristol paper so that I can do whatever I want in it (draw, collage, even paint). Prints of my collages are on the covers.

They are for sale in my etsy shop.

Street art

Not my art, but something that cheers me up whenever I drive by it; especially when it's a gray, rainy day...like today.

Paper doll card

Today I have grown
From walking with the trees. I love trees... so it was kind of appropriate to use
a "vintage" photo of myself for this card.

It is in my store on Etsy.com (here). I think of it more of a gallery than store, and seem to be putting there things that I'm not too eager to sell. Sounds weird, doesn't it? I do want to sell, but I'm just not ready to part with some things so I don't list them on eBay immediately (where they usually sell fast).

A masterpiece in progress...

My favorite, adorable, talented, funny girl is 11 today!
Happy birthday Hana!