Happy New Year...2023!

Yay!

 Happy New Year!

2023!

I love when we have a new year....time to reflect, gain some wisdom from the past and have new goals!

Do you have health resolutions?  New business goals?

Time to organize? Plans for a vacation? Personal Goals?

Now is a fabulous time to brainstorm what you want from this next year, and set some goals.

Split the goals up into smaller goals if you need to.  

The only way to change is to work on these smaller goals each day.

You can do it!

My goals are:

I am working on my diabetes( my A1C is 5.8) and weight (overall health)....I have art goals and I am organizing all my hoard of things (plus getting rid of excess).

I love making new calendars.

I created this artwork on my iPad using procreate. It looks like a painting with paint right?

Click here to download this phone/tablet calendar.

Click here to download the desktop version.

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Made 2 sets of snowman ornaments... all with a snowflake/rainbow scarf theme.

They all sold.

I used my vintage pipecleaners for arms.

The scarfs were dyed silk cut into strips.

These are started from muslin...like my dolls in my charming dolls book.

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At a family Christmas party ...we made crayon shavings ornaments

We took a glass ball, shaved crayons into pieces, put them inside the ball and heated it with a blowdryer. We made sure to hold it with some craft pliers. When the crayon melts you swirl the ball around to coat it.

They turned out really pretty!

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Another party I went to was the doll club party in Spokane....hosted by Elise.

She had so many gorgeous trees!

Beautiful handmade ornaments...

I love the Victorian flair.

I posted alot more pics on Instagram.... check out my Instagram and follow me if you like...there is alot more content there.

I loved this Santa mouse...he was amazing!

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My husband & I had our 26th wedding Anniversary....

I made this little sign on procreate (my favorite tool).

We have been very happy... I feel very blessed.

Plus, he got me a lovely necklace.

I made a Gonzaga rug for my hubby...our local team

I had to shave it alot....but it was fun!

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I have been creating lots of art thru procreate....these are a few ..

a Blue candy land piece...class form Mindy Lacefield.

I love gingerbread men.  I'm going to be offering prints of my work soon.

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Davy has been very naughty...getting felt from my studio....beating it up and playing with it.

He is such a cutie!

This is a sneak peak... of some valentine projects coming soon.

These were some of my favorite projects thru the year.

We had a great Christmas!

I hope your new year will be awesome!

Hello November!

Wow...It's November!

Time for Pumpkin pie, raking leaves, staying cozy under a blanket, having soup and a fire in the fire place.

It's also craft show season and holiday shop hop time.

And who can forget Thanksgiving? 

I love this time of year!

Get the above phone/tablet screen saver wallpaper here.

I also created the desktop version....click here to download this one.

Both calendar's were made from my pumpkin pie artwork.

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Recently I went to an antique shop (1889 in Spokane) and fell in love with this gutted out Vintage TV.

I took it home and cleaned it up, painted the inside and Selina added lights inside the center.

I love it!

I am going to decorate and display all decorations items ...for each holiday!

Selina is going to make some fake dials for it.

The lights really make it come alive.

I also got this cool owl TV lamp at Two Women antiques store.

It is rare and super cool!

I didn't know there were TV lamps....our TV only had the antennae.

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We had a wonder WSQ Quilt show this year...for two years it was cancelled because of Covid. 

We had are double booth....which was great because it was super hard to fit it all in. 

The booth is basically all my patterns with samples to show each design. Plus my daughter Selina's designs...like her mini hoop pendants hexies, and needle minders.

We had a great turn out and great sales. Our ladder display is always a hit.

The window frame in one of my oldest designs..the pattern sold out and I had to print more in the evening.

I signed my two books and sold dolls too.

It was alot of fun!

Halloween is my favorite and my customers agree.   Even though it was getting close to Halloween...everyone wants to work on projects.

My daughter was amazing at hanging things up...my stroke I had 2 years ago makes my balance a little off. I still feel like I have the Frankenstein walk, but my daughter disagrees.

These are some of Selina's products....ornaments, necklaces, pins...all made from wood and embroidery.

You can find her etsy shop here and her website here.

These are some of my newer designs.... everyday patterns...lots of dogs and little dolls.

I couldn't do any of this without of besties~ 

my husband and daughter. 

They help me in everything!

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Davy is growing!

He has the softest fun...and he is still naughty.

Here he is picking out his vacation destination for next year....

lol....he is really playing with my map I use when playing Jeopardy.

He is a total stinker....he toots!

I miss Froy very badly but Davy makes it easier.

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I bought an IPAD.

It's my very first apple product...I was scared that I wouldn't like it.

But I did!

I subscribed to Procreate....so much fun. I made this kitty....trying out different brushes.

Played with drawing this lil girl.  It came to me really fast...but I have experience in Adobe Illustrator.

Then I took a class...with mushrooms and flowers.... I am hooked.

I hope to create on these chilly days coming up.

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Cute scarecrow I bought from Sweet meadows farms

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I had a rough 6 months....my uncle died, my dad got sicker and sicker, my aunt died and then 4 days later...my dad died.

It has been intense and tested my strength (which seemed weak at points) but things might get a little easier soon. 

I also lost Froy and Lucky( my cats) this year.

Next comes a celebration of life for my dear dad.

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Let's enjoy this November....
have some tea or coffee...
sit and reflect....
hug a loved one and a pet!